Conflicts

South Dakota

148 engagements recorded

Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village

Talking Crow Site Conflict

Crow Creek Tributary Massacre (Talking Crow Site)

Fay Tolton Site Conflict

Fay Tolton Site Massacre

Thomas Riggs Phase Warfare

Crow Creek Phase I Village Destruction

Medicine Crow Site Violence

Crow Creek Fortified Village (South Dakota)

Crow Creek Village Site — Palisade Construction

Fay Tolton Site Violence – South Dakota

Over Site Fortified Village

Fay Tolton Site Massacre

Crow Creek Fortification Ditch System

Over Phase Village Conflicts

Brandon Village Conflict

Crow Creek I Village Abandonment

Crow Creek Massacre Site (pre-Columbian)

Crow Creek Massacre

Larson Site Massacre

Crow Creek Fortification and Massacre (SD)

Sully Site Fortified Village

Black Partizan Site Fortification

Shermer Site Massacre

Larson Village Fortification

Fay Tolton Site Massacre

Thomas Riggs Fortified Village Conflict

Larson Site Arikara Village Siege

Fay Tolton Site Conflict

Buechel Site — Dakota Conflict

Crow Creek II Fortified Village

Swan Creek Site Massacre

Swiftbird Site Massacre – Missouri River

Leavenworth Site Arikara Conflict

Mobridge Site Conflicts

Coalescent Tradition Conflict

Oneota Conflict – Blood Run Site

Sully Site Massacre – Missouri River

Mobridge Site Conflict – South Dakota

Leavenworth Site Violence (South Dakota)

Larson Site Fortified Village

Heerdt Site Conflict

Protohistoric Arikara Conflict (Mobridge/Leavenworth Area)

Battle of the Arikaras (La Jonquière Account)

Leavenworth Expedition against the Arikara

Arikara War 1823 — Attack on Ashley Expedition

Arikara War — Leavenworth Expedition

Arikara War (1823 Ashley Expedition)

Sioux Falls Abandonment — Dakota Territory (1862)

Medary Settlement Raid — Dakota Territory (1862)

Crow Creek Massacre of Dakota (1863)

Crow Creek Reservation — Exile Death (1863)

Fort Thompson Area Skirmishes 1863

Battle of Tahkahokuty Mountain

Engagement in the Badlands Dakota Territory

Crow Creek Agency Fight

Crow Creek Reservation Conflict — Crow vs Dakota (1866)

Black Hills Expedition Skirmish 1874

Black Hills Gold Rush Skirmishes 1875–1876

Great Sioux War — Black Hills Negotiations Failure 1875

Black Hills Sioux Defense 1875

Great Sioux War — Fort Laramie Treaty Violations

Deadwood First Season Violence — Black Hills Dakota Territory

Slim Buttes — Crook's Starvation March Skirmishes

Battle of Slim Buttes — Initial Assault

Battle of Slim Buttes — Cavalry Pursuit Phase (September 9–10, 1876)

Battle of Slim Buttes — Discovery of Little Bighorn Relics

American Horse Surrender 1876

Battle of Slim Buttes — Rearguard Action

Murder of Wild Bill Hickok, Deadwood SD

Battle of Slim Buttes — American Horse's Death

Battle of Slim Buttes — Crook's Starvation March Context

Battle of Slim Buttes – American Horse's Cave Sub-action

Battle of Slim Buttes — American Horse's Village Destruction (September 9, 1876)

Slim Buttes — American Horse's Village Discovery

Battle of Slim Buttes

Battle of Slim Buttes (South Dakota)

Battle of Slim Buttes — Crazy Horse Relief Attempt

Crook's "Horsemeat March" — Starvation March

Seth Bullock Takes Over Deadwood Law, SD

Deadwood-Cheyenne Stage Robberies — Johnny Slaughter Conflicts SD

White River Skirmish 1879

Homestake Mine Labor Conflict, Lead SD

Crow Dog Shooting of Spotted Tail 1881

Sioux Resistance — Great Sioux Reservation Reduction 1889

Ghost Dance Movement — Wovoka's Vision Spreads to Sioux (1889–1890)

Wounded Knee — Disarmament Attempt

Battle of White Clay Creek

Stronghold Table Standoff 1890

Battle of Rosebud Agency (Ghost Dance)

Battle of Wounded Knee – Hotchkiss Gun Barrage

Ghost Dance War — Pine Ridge Stronghold Occupation

Battle of Wounded Knee — Medals of Honor Controversy

Sitting Bull Arrested and Killed, Standing Rock SD

Pine Ridge Skirmishes — Ghost Dance Occupation 1890

Wounded Knee — Survivors and Flight to Pine Ridge Agency

Killing of Sitting Bull — Standing Rock Dec 15 1890

White Clay Creek Fight

Sitting Bull's Death Fight

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