Crazy Horse surrendered in the spring of 1877 and was killed at Fort Robinson that September — bayoneted by a soldier while in military custody, under circumstances that remain disputed.

The Black Hills — the sacred lands at the center of the entire conflict — were taken.

The U.S. government, unable to purchase them, simply seized them.

The Supreme Court would eventually rule, a century later, that the seizure was illegal.

The Lakota have refused the monetary compensation offered and continue to press their claim to Pahá Sápa to this day.

The great camp that had gathered on the Greasy Grass dispersed.