Custer's Last Stand, also known as "the Battle of Little Bighorn," was an armed fight between the combined forces of the Northern Cheyenne, the Lakota, and Arapaho tribes against the Seventh Cavalry Regiment and the United States Army. The battle started on June 25, 1876, when Custer, an officer in the United States army, discovered an Indian village that sat on the banks on the Little Bighorn River.
When Custer and his troops approached, he ordered them to attack. But what he didn't know was that this was the main encampment of the local native Americans. Custer lost the battle when he and the Seventh Cavalry Regiment got massacred by 3,000 Sioux warriors. The Native Americans felt so strongly because their land supply was dwindling, which means losing their precious metals completely would be devastating. The battle ended the next day, on June 26, and remains an iconic Native American victory.
