The Battle of Greasy Grass

Jul 2, 2026

Young people in America are taught that US forces suffered a terrible defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June 25-26, 1876. But to the descendants of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people it was a brief moment of successful resistance to the encroachment of illegal settlers in the sacred Pahá Sápa (the Black Hills of what was known as the Dakota Territory). Read more about the Battle of Greasy Grass, and the re-enactment commemorating the 150th anniversary, in this article from Native News Online:

Why Native Americans Celebrated the Battle of the Greasy Grass