The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight and Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856 - Paul Norman Beck - Google Books

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The First Sioux War was a vitally important conflict that helped define Lakota Sioux / white relations; created a closer national unity among the Sioux; and allowed the United States Army to develop new military tactics, which would eventually be used to…