The January 8, 1877 Battle of Wolf Mountain

This battle took place at what is now the Northern Cheyenne Reservation of Montana. The Iron Confederations warriors numbered around 500 as did that of the Americans. The Indians didn’t let the Americans perimeter deter them from attempting to take their machine guns and howitzers out of the battle, but the Americans defended their superior weapons successfully. Under intense American bombardments, the Anishinabek and their allies continued to fight on but made their decision to retreat after agreeing that the weather was turning foul. After this battle the Anishinabek, Assiniboine, Cree, Delaware and Gros Ventre of eastern Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming slowy started to surrender, but they were not taken to the Dakota Reservation, but were relocated to Oklahoma. However, the Montana War was not over, because the Americans still had to fight ogima Little Shell’s subjects in central and western Montana, and north central Idaho. Plan one of the Americans war efforts in Montana was over, and a few months after this January 8, 1877 battle, they would strike at several locations in north central Idaho, western Montana, central Montana, and finally northern Montana, where large concentrations of Anishinabek, Assiniboine, Cree, Delaware and Gros Ventre lived.