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The Untold Truth About What Really Happened In The Battle Of The Little Bighorn | Short Native American Documentary The history of war is filled with battles decided by a detail. A frozen lake, a change in season, the lack of a servant to update weather charts; some of the biggest events in history would be entirely different if it were for a single variable change. The destiny of entire peoples, of nations, of kingdoms, religions and faiths, it was all decided in the battlefield, amidst blood, sweat and tears, the anguished cries of the fallen and the joyous laughs of the victorious. In today’s video we will learn more about the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a deciding event in Indian history and one that has affected life as we know it today. The Smithsonian has this to say about the Battle of the Little Bighorn, from the point of view of Custer’s 7th Cavalrymen and their fate: “In 1874, an Army expedition led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer found gold in the Black Hills, in present-day South Dakota. At the time, the United States recognized the hills as property of the Sioux Nation, under a treaty the two parties had signed six years before. The Grant administration tried to buy the hills, but the Sioux, considering them sacred ground, refused to sell; in 1876, federal troops were dispatched to force the Sioux onto reservations and pacify the Great Plains. That June, Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Little Bighorn River, in what is now Montana. The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the most studied actions in U.S. military history, and the immense literature on the subject is devoted primarily to answering questions about Custer’s generalship during the fighting. But neither he nor the 209 men in his immediate command survived the day, and an Indian counterattack would pin down seven companies of their fellow 7th Cavalrymen on a hilltop over four miles away. (Of about 400 soldiers on the hilltop, 53 were killed and 60 were wounded before the Indians ended their siege the next day.) The experience of Custer and his men can be reconstructed only by inference.” #Littlebighorn #custer #sioux #cheyenne #arapahoe
