Why The Native Americans Felt So Strongly At The Battle Of Little Bighorn

This is a famous battle that was fought between the U.S. Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the northern tribe Indians, including the Cheyenne, Sioux and Arapaho. The battle occurred on 25th and 26th of June the year 1876 and is also referred to as The Battle of Little Big Horn. Ever since the discovery of gold on the Native American lands, the tension between the two groups rose leading to rivalry. When a number of tribes missed a federal deadline to move to reservations, the U.S Army including Custer and his 7th Calvary was dispatched to confront them. By that moment Custer wasn’t aware of the number of Indians fighting under the command of Sitting Bull at Little Bighorn, and his forces were outnumbered and quickly overwhelmed in what became known as Custer’s Last Stand.
Native Americans fought back to preserve their communities and livelihoods. They also felt strongly because Custer was attacking their homes, which contained women and children, and the army had a custom of taking no prisoners, killing every single person, even infants and mutilating their bodies for trophies and scalping the dead. A constant threat on their lives, land and liberty also made the Native Americans feel so strongly. The fact that the Native Americans were being forced out of the land because of the US’s preference is something that made them feel so strongly. Another thing that made them feel so strongly is that the Native Americans were itching for a fight; they had already defeated Crook and were definitely in no fear of the US army. This was something that Custer didn’t know because Crook never thought of sending a messenger with that ‘unimportant