FARGO — Paul Hedren grew up in a part of Minnesota where the Dakota War of 1862 was ignited when starving Dakota renegades raided the Lower Sioux Agency and white settlements along the Minnesota River ...

The Lakota chief Sitting Bull and his starving band of followers ended nearly two decades of intermittent warfare with the United States on July 20, 1881, when they surrendered at Fort Buford, in ...

Part I. Waging the Great Sioux War -- The American army of 1876 -- On strategy and tactics -- The Great Sioux War begins -- The Black Hills front -- Reinforcements and starting over -- Part II.

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

The Ohio Valley War, 1786-1795 -- The Red Stick War, 1813-1814 -- The Arikara War, 1823 -- The Black Hawk War, 1832 -- The Minnesota Sioux War, 1862 -- The Cheyenne and Arapaho War, 1864-1865 -- The ...

The leading narrative about the Black Hills, a range stretching across the border of South Dakota and Wyoming, most famous for Mount Rushmore, is as simple as it is compelling. It was an American ...