The Battle of the Little Bighorn, battled on June 25, 1876, close to the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, set government troops drove by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Strains between the two gatherings had been ascending since the disclosure of gold on Native American terrains.

At the point when various clans missed a government due date to move to reservations, the U.S. Armed forces, including Custer and his seventh Calvary, was dispatched to stand up to them. Skirmish of the Little Bighorn: Mounting Tensions
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse pioneers of the Sioux on the Great Plains emphatically opposed the mid-nineteenth century endeavors of the U.S. government to restrict their kin to reservations. In 1875, after gold was found in South Dakota's the Black Hills, the U.S. Armed forces overlooked past arrangement assertions and attacked the district.
 This treachery drove numerous Sioux and Cheyenne tribesmen to leave their reservations and join Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana. By the pre-summer of 1876, in excess of 10,000 Native Americans had accumulated in a camp along the Little Bighorn River– which they called the Greasy Grass– in the rebellion of a U.S. War Department request to come back to their reservations or hazard being assaulted.
In mid-June, three segments of U.S. troopers arranged against the camp and arranged to walk. A power of 1,200 Native Americans turned back the main section on June 17. After five days, General Alfred Terry requested George Custer's Seventh Cavalry to scout ahead for troops. On the morning of June 25, Custer gravitated toward the camp and chose to push on ahead instead of sitting tight for fortifications.
At early afternoon on June 25, Custer's 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Among the Native Americans, word rapidly spread of the looming assault. The more established Sitting Bull encouraged the warriors and saw to the security of the ladies and kids, while Crazy Horse set off with a substantial power to meet the aggressors head on.
 Notwithstanding Custer's edgy endeavors to regroup his men, they were immediately overpowered. Custer and somewhere in the range of 200 men in his regiment were assaulted by upwards of 3,000 Native Americans; inside 60 minutes, Custer and the greater part of his warriors were dead.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, additionally called Custer's Last Stand, denoted the most conclusive Native American triumph and the most exceedingly bad U.S. Armed force vanquish in the long Plains Indian War.