156 The West: The Great Sioux War

The death of George Armstrong Custer and the destruction of the
Seventh Cavalry is a touchstone for the Indian Wars. It is the
one event that in many people's mind, is the touchstone for the
post-Civil War conflicts with Native Armericans. We will focus on
that in this episode of the podcast. The campaign to hem in the
Sioux to their reservations was to be facilitated by a
multi-prong advance. Rather than seeing success, the Army was
blunted on the Little Big Horn and the Rosebud. The defeat had a
lasting effect on the Army and did not step the colonization of
the west, but it was the greatest victory experienced by any
tribe in the decades long conflict. You can decide for yourself
if Custer was either brave of foolhardy in his attack on the
Little Big Horn. 


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