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He had orders to track them down and take them to a reservation. If they resisted he had orders to fight them as needed to force them to go to the reservation.

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Q: The Sioux and Sitting Bull led the attack on general george Armstrong Custer's cavalry at the battle of little big horn why did the Sioux take this course of action?
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