Regional1854 – 1891 · 37 years
Sioux Wars
Great Plains · USA
Estimated casualties
25Ksingle estimate · no range published
Wars establishing American control over Great Plains.
Belligerents2
- United States
- Sioux nation
ON THE MAPUnited States (1860)
Conflict graph
SUB-CONFLICTS · 20
- Battle of Fort Laramie1854
- Battle of Ash Hollow1855
- Battle of Spirit Lake1857
- Battle of Birch Coulee1862
- Battle of Fort Ridgely1862
- Battle of New Ulm1862
- Battle of Wood Lake1862
- Battle of Big Mound1863
- Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake1863
- Battle of Stony Lake1863
- Battle of Whitestone Hill1863
- Battle of Killdeer Mountain1864
+ 8 more in the atlas.
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Sioux Wars (1854 – 1891). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/sioux-wars · Sources & methodology