When did the Sioux Indians go to war?
1861 until 1879 with the final battle of Little Big Horn. On Dec. 24, 1861 the largest mass hanging of Dakota Sioux took place at Ft. Laramie. The U.S. army had arrested over 300 Sioux warriors and intended to hang them. Ten warriors had attacked a settler and his family, but they couldn’t figure out who so they arrested all of them. Lincoln stepped in and stopped the hanging of the 300, but 30 were hung instead. One of the men hung was a chief named Cut Nose. This event was pretty much the start of war for the Sioux.
