Little Big Man, or Charging Bear, was an Oglala Lakota, or Oglala Sioux, who was a fearless and respected warrior who fought under and was rivals with, Crazy Horse ("His-Horse-Is-Spirited"). He opposed the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, and fought against efforts by the United States to take control of the ancestral Sioux lands in the Black Hills area of the Dakota Territory. He also fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn in the Montana Territory in 1876. Late in life, he decided to cooperate with the White conquerors, and may have been involved in the murder of his old ally and rival, Crazy Horse, at Fort Robinson in Nebraska in 1877.
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