** NOVEMBER 27, 1868: Lt.Col. George Armstrong Custer leads an early morning attack on Cheyenne living with Chief Black Kettle destroying the village and killing more than 100 people, including Black Kettle.
** 1873: Crazy Horse encounters George Custer for the first time.
** 1874: Gold is discovered in South Dakota's Black Hills. U.S. troops ignore a treaty and invade the territory which has been set aside for the Indians.
** JUNE 25, 1876: In the Battle of the Little Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, troops under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer fight Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, along the Little Bighorn River.
Custer and his soldiers are killed, increasing tensions between the Indians and white Americans.
** OCTOBER 6, 1879: The first students attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. This is the country's first off-reservation school, created by Civil War veteran Richard Henry Pratt. It is designed to assimilate Indian students into American society.
--Cooter
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