Battle of Slim Buttes

September 9–10, 1876 · Great Sioux Reservation

Result United States victory

US troops under George Crook attacked a Lakota village at Slim Buttes in present-day South Dakota. It was the first US victory after the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

United States

Lakota and Northern Cheyenne

Strength and losses

Strength
c. 1,200
Killed
3
Wounded
13