Custer's War on the Plains

By 1873 the plains Indians had been largely debased beaten and driven to the great reservations that have been allotted to the various tribes. Treaty after treaty had been broken by the relentless pressure of white men and their civilization constantly pushing against the ineffective resistance of the red men. Custer led his newly formed seventh cavalry against black kettle and his band in a sudden attack against their sleeping village on the Washita in Texas. The Cheyennes who were recognized as the most brilliant Indian fighters of the plains never forgave either Custer or his seventh cavalry for this whirling attack on their sleeping village during winter.