“Weakened the US Army”: how the Indians put the Americans to flight at the Battle of Rosebud

150 years ago, the Battle of Rosebud took place, one of the battles of the War for the Black Hills. The Sioux and Cheyenne Indians forced the famous American general George Crook to retreat. The prairie warriors thwarted the operation developed by the US Army command, and thus received several more months of free life. But they were still doomed: the Americans undermined the economic basis for the existence of the indigenous inhabitants of the Great Plains, historians recall. The US government violated all previously signed treaties, forcing the Indians to choose: die, flee the country, or agree to be imprisoned on reservations. Read more