Sioux Wars

The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people that occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed several American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War.

Read more about Sioux Wars:  First Sioux War, Dakota War of 1862, Colorado War, Powder River War, Red Cloud's War, Great Sioux War, Ghost Dance War, See Also, Bibliography

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