Fun fact: Custer’s Last Stand, a 1936 movie serial directed by Elmer Clifton, supposedly hired a number of Arapahos who actually fought at the Little Bighorn as extras
Well seeing as how 1936 is 60 years after 1876 that would mean that the indians who were 20 in 1876 would be 80 years old in 1936 so. not a likely scenario.More rumours for tards.
@@jimtwisted1984 The Indians had teenaged boys in the camp - some of whom were engaged in the action. There is in fact one version (among many, many different versions) in which it was two teenaged boys who shot Custer as he tried to cross the river. So - no - these are not in the least "rumors for tards" - but things that certainly _could_ have happened. Now - the fact that these people were said to be hired as "extra's" could mean anything as to their actual roles in the film. They might well not have been hired to act like they'd been shot off the back of a running horse ... but there are any number of other roles they might have played - say - standing around in the back ground playing and "old" Indian. .
I am from Scotland and visited the site around six years ago. I spent some time in the visitor centre getting the story from the native descendants. The spot where each death took place is marked with a cross and name where known. The battle field went on for miles and not in a small area as depicted in the original movie. Respect to all native Americans.
18% of the dead were irish, 3% Scottish 15% germanic regions ( swiss, austria, germany, Prussia) norway had 4 deaths, sweden 2, denmark 4, italy 1, Poland 3, russia 1, the 7th cavalry mustered out of st paul minnesota, and half of the regiment was born in europe. Hell even a black man from lousiania ( a scout), and a mexican was in the 7th. Black man mutilated.
@@BasedinReality1984 Why is your respect for courage and martial valor dependent on skin color or ancestry? I respect all the brave souls who lost their lives that day, but just remember that the Native American warriors were fighting for their way of life, their women and children, and the Europeans were colonist mercenaries, fighting for westward expansion, industrialization and corporate greed. I know which side I'm on.
@@jimclark6256 a social construct? Race? Lol I'm not. The Shoshone, Arakawa, Mandan, crow, and 2/3 of the lakota nation were on (allied) the 7th cavalries side. The agreement s had already been made with all chiefs in dakota territory. 1/3 of lakota and cheyenne followed Buffalo herds into Arakawa and crow territory ( breaching tribal rights of the crow, Arakawa, shoshone) with multiple scalping of innocents ( red and white, male and female). This wax a police action, not military, the US Civil War with 850,000 deaths just happened not 10 years earlier and the military was gutted to nothing. Maybe 10000 active. Most were foreign. Hilarious you bring up ' race', mr modern snowflake youtube racist, because it IS well documented that whites DID fight alongside some of these tribes. Best guess was the cheyenne. Most likely old French trappers, or some hangover confederates from the Civil War. See, this land and tribes has LONG seen contact with 'whites' 2 centuries before even lewis and Clark ', sacagawea was married to a French trappers, they ALL KNEW FRENCH, AND THEY WERE ALL CATHOLIC! I didn't bring up race, I brought up history. If you want to contact me I will give you my address and come visit.
I grew up on an American Indian Reservation of Lakota Sioux (my father was an employee in Indian Health services). I wish I was old enough back in the day, to appreciate the fact that there were a handful of individuals still living, who were at the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
I think the last combatant of the battle only died in the early 1960s! So its crazy that there is people still alive that have spoken with people who fought at Little Bighorn.
The plan for this battle was flowed..one wrong place all tribes were together..with families...indians knew the terrain had more than enough fire power..than single shot of custers men.....trie sided attack didn't wait to met up coming from south were fighting a day before custer arrived and lost supplies bottles were used to retreat back south so the trip sided attack was not there custer arrived and by his self..the troops from the west was a few days late they wasn't there either but custer didn't stop he split the troops..they were doomed..
The last Great Plains Native American died in 2016 at 103 his father was a scout for the crow that sadly assisted Custer before the battle at little big horn
One of my ancestors Wasichula, or “Little White Man” was in the battle as a teenager. He was the son of a soldier and a Lakota mother. He was raised by the whites at ft. Robinson until he was eight when he ran away back to Crazy Horse’s people. Parts of his story were the basis of the movie Little Big Man. I have a picture of him at the 50th anniversary of the survivors in 1926. There is a silent film of the survivors riding in a parade, it’s in the Colorado history museum’s collection. Viewable on RUclips. Don’t know which of the riders is my ancestor, bit I know he is in there. Hoka Hey!
paul VON the movie was “little big man”, but was partly based on my ancestors story. The movie’s writer researched using local/regional books and was aware of little white mans story.
Bueatiful story, I wish more would talk about these things. So many people are mixed as your ancestor was we have a foot in both worlds and it's very hard to walk in them sometimes, I think it would be easier if we all realized how much mixing actually went on and still goes on.
@@jesuschristmas420 everyone in the United States should be open arms to our Amerindian brothers seeking asylum from the south. As we did with there caucazoid ancestors hundreds of years ago time to pay us back with a portion of AZTLAN
@@johnbishop4426 you racist do know that the Lakota had broken the treaty first by attacking the crows? you do know that the Black hills belonged to the crow first before the Lakota stole them?
The US Government don't mind talking about this battle. But what about what the US Government did to the Native Americans at Wounded Knee where 900 + tribes people were murdered.
Say you’re you’re right why they don’t talk about Wounded knee are the trail of tears that is a part of American history right actually that’s the part that is hidden from history now why is this😎
General Crook once said that the only way we won the plains Indians wars was the tribes hated each other and the enemies of the Apache and Sioux were more than happy to help us.
As a descendant of CUSTER, visiting the battlefield gave me a weird feeling the entire time I was there. Like everyone else, trying to vision that day. Constantly feeling the presence of both CUSTER and the Indians while walking in their footsteps. I may be a CUSTER, but have always felt bad for the Indians and the tragedies that happened to them. They had their life living off the land and it was all taken away by progress, greed and selfishness. Buffalo being their number one resource for survival being slaughtered for sport and hides. I’ve been a hunter for over 50 years and have never taken an animal for just the fun of it.
This comment is the first time in my life that I have associated respect with the name of Custer, and I say that as someone who despises everything GAC stood for. Bravery is a big thing for First Nations People.
Thank you for sharing this historic event in a way that did not choose sides but conveyed the events as they occured. "Never underestimate an enemy, especially when fighting in his own land".
Why shouldn’t sides be chosen? It’s pretty much widely accepted the whites were more wrong overall due to their known advantage in weapons and due to their known racist attitude toward the natives as a whole. They didn’t view the natives as potential Christians to be converted. They actually have spoken and written down statements expressing their views that natives were in their perspective primitive people. In fact there even were commanders of white military who cited Charles Darwin and the concept of “survival of the fittest” when they tried to explain that they (white Americans) stronger and thus “more fit” to survive while the natives are “unfit” because they were losing battles. I am not even going to go into how that is a fundamentally NOT ONLY an unchristian view, but also a monumental misunderstanding of what Charles Darwin meant by “fittest”. I am just suggesting that even assuming that the natives can be blamed for violent methods that on the whole the whites and the American government consciously and intentionally wanted to exterminate all of them as a people. They just dismissed them as people with the same right to life and to self determination. If you believe that somehow what I wrote is false or leftist propaganda feel free to state what it is.
@@StopFear when white American settlers had racist views and tendencies toward natives, and treated them as “lesser people”, the Comanches down in Texas were treating anyone who wasn’t part of their tribe as less than the buffalo they were hunting. Gang raping all women captives, skinning alive them afterward and put them on stakes next to their children. The ever creative and inventive torturing method they applied to the war “trophies” were among some of the most gruesome things humans had ever committed. They slaughtered, pillaged, raped, tortured, everyone who wasn’t part of them. So what argument are you actually making here? The early American settlers who occasionally thought other people were lesser, or the big chunk of the world’s population even today, who still don’t even think people of different race are even people. When can the naive people of today starting to wake up and realize, how the world has been and how close are we to our past and how easily all this can reverse to the past. Did Japanese soldiers thought the Chinese were people too when they skewered up Chinese babies on a katana? And when was that? 80 years ago only? And honestly, it’s human nature to root for the little guy, it’s heroic and inspiring to see a guy with his fists fighting another guy holding a pistol. However the reality was, if the natives had nukes, most of them would say let’s nuke all of them whites no doubt, but not the other way around. In an analogy, I visited North Korea years ago, almost everyone hated America down there, and they would nuke America if they can, but in America people don’t like North Korea but no one will ever say let’s nuke it.
History will never again repeat the bravery and high moral that was brought upon the Lakota by Sitting Bull. That story is enough to make you get goosebumps.
How do you know that? Do you know of the miracle that happened at Wounded Knee in 1973? Frank Fools Crow, Russell Means and others were praying in a tipi while a firefight was going on with Feds and traitors of their tribes. They were so focused on praying that they were unaware. When they came out, they found bullets on the ground and embedded in the blankets draped over the framework. This goes back to the Ghost Dances that Native folk tried to use to rid the world of white people. Jesus had visited Holy Man Wovoka of the Paiute and gave him a song and dance to rid the world of evil. He promised they would be protected and their shirts would stop bullets. They disobeyed and tried to use it to rid the world of white people, so their shirts did not stop the bullets.
Really? What about the Rangers at Point du Hoc? Or the British flyers during the Battle of Britain? Or the Canadians who jumped into France during D Day? Or the men of the 101st who were surrounded during the Battle of the Bulge? A great many leaders made sure the aforementioned men were highly motivated and had the bravery to fight the fight they did.
@@nmelkhunter1 Mate we were being exterminated, they knew every day was the last for their entire culture if they didn't fight to the end. Amazing you mentioned all that WW2 stuff without mentioning the heroics of the Jewish people in those countries. Weird to pick a bone about this?
@@chilla12345432 The Lakota were not being exterminated. They were being forced on to Reservations. It is not fair, certainly, but extermination was never the goal....removal was. Nobody claims it was nice....but let's not pretend that the Lakota of the 1800s were a nice, model society full of progressive eco-hippies...they were an expansionist, warlike, ultra-backwards, stone age hunter/warrior patriarchal society. Buying your three wives in exchange for horses, is not exactly the mark of a progressive people. If you think the Lakota were nice folks just hanging out, hunting, playing the drums and dancing.....Just ask the Crows, Arikaras, Mandans, Ponca, Gros Ventre, Pawnee all about them. Since the Lakota conquered all their lands and engaged in punitive, relentless, horse theft, raiding, killing and land-grabbing against their neighbor tribes. The Lakota drove them all the way out of the areas that they wanted for themselves. Sitting Bull did not have "high morals" at all. He was the territorial shaman-warlord of the biggest expansionist tribal empire on the Great Plains since the Comanche. Indians had empires too...and they were rarely very nice to each either.
@@dylanthesea2976 I was talking to the guy talking like white people have hidden this away but its come out RUclips to undermine whitefolks power grab. School in the 80s and 90s talked all about the slaughters.
I worked with a cheyenne in 1980, he was 65 years old, he told me his grandfathers version of this battle. He told me that Custer was a coward and thief
According to the Lakota, Custer committed suicide. He was injured, but he died from his own hand. This is why Custer was not scalped. To the Native Warriors, suicide was a act of cowardice. Custer got exactly what he deserved.
Here is what my friend told me .Earlier in the day, prior to the battle, weaselbear told me that the men had gotten paid that day. When it was obvious to custard that they were going to lose Custard tried escaping the battle and along the way he was taking the pay from his dead men eventually the sioux caught up with him and killed him or maybe it was suicide, not sure about that. But my friend did say that by the time the reporters had gotten to the battle scene the military had carried custards body from where he died, some 50 yards from the rest of his men and placed him with his soldiers putting the american flag in his hands. Then they allowed the reporters in
As A OTR truck driver I had the honor of actually stopping and visiting the Crow Agency where the Battle of the Little Big Horn took place serval times....although 99% of what happen that day came from our Native American citizens, they did explained the whole situation the same way you guys just explained it...well done.
So very sad over Greed!!! After all these years we still suffer from greed. Our politician / leaders have learned nothing. May God have mercy on all the lives that were lost.
I’ve lived in Washington State way up on the coast on a small Reservation On the Makkah Reservation, my grandmas partner was one of the few remaining full blood natives if I’m not mistaken. When I broke my arm in 2004 I ended up sitting in front of a tv for 4 months watching all the movies she had on VHS. Smoke Signals, Last Of The Mohicans, Thunderheart, and I learned about Native culture. Wounded knee ect.. Then I found out I’m a quarter southern utte on my Fathers side… great video
Custer's National Monument should be renamed to honor Sitting Bull and others. The fact that the greasy grass site was named for the losers is significant.
@@Dr_Fuzz Not only a loser, today they would say a war criminal, and a bad soldier, who violated orders, for the sake of his own glory, led his soldiers to ruin.
@@drazenbicanic3590 No, you're wrongfully demonizing him. www.cowboysindians.com/2016/04/the-truth-about-george-armstrong-custer/ He actually respected the Lakota as opponents. His major downfall was that he listened to his troops. I've read he once exposed corruption in the BIA.
The site started having Custer in its name in 1886. In 1946, it was renamed the "Custer Battlefield National Monument." But in 1991, this was changed to the "Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument." Many people were very angry about that and wrote inflammatory letters to the National Park Service.
@@dennis7511 They own all of it. It came with Sitting Bull after the Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull gave it to Captain Walsh of the NWMP (at Fort Walsh) as a sign of good faith. All of it was transported to Ottawa, and then to Toronto. Wonder what that would bring on the Antiques Road Show? Btw, Fort Walsh is bearish to Eastend Saskatchewan where Wallace Stegner is from. Also, Scotty, the world’s largest Tyrannosaurus Rex was found near Eastend (there’s a very nice paleontology field station/mini museum there). Scotty supplanted Sue (Chicago Field Museum) as the largest T Rex last year.
@@Robboa1 Walsh was a major in the NWMP. Sitting Bull gave him the head dress he wore on the Little Bighorn. Walsh gave it to Cornelius Van Horn, head of the Canadian Pacific Railway and I believe he passed it on to people in Ontario where it finally ended up in the Royal Ontario Museum. The RCMP museum in Regina also has some of Sitting Bull's belongings on display.
@@ToddSauve My friend is (or recently was) director of that museum - but alas I haven’t visited it in 15 years. I’ve been to ROM twice since then - and think I’ve copied a link to a photo of the exhibit above (ask Mr. Google if anyone out there wants to see it). Thanks for the clarification for the chain of possession - but of course the important part is that Sitting Bull sought some sore of truce whereby they could stay in Canada, and were denied. I think the interpretative material at Fort Walsh indicates a feeling that Sitting Bull was betrayed by the Canadian government. At any rate, they left peacefully, even though they had the ability to level the place
@@Robboa1 Yes, the Lakota kind of trickled away from the encampments around Wood Mountain over the years until Sitting Bull saw no possibility of staying and surviving. Nonetheless, a number of Lakota did stay in Canada and now live on the Wood Mountain--Sitting Bull--reservation in southern Saskatchewan. They are the true survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and have never surrendered. I kind of like that fact!
I read a book many years ago. Don't remember much,it was so full of Native American history....that I never knew. Amazed at the strength,beauty & courage of these people & horrified at the thoughtless cruelty done to them. I salute their dignity & am proud of them,though I don't share their heritage. God bless all of them today.😪😘
"Thoughtless cruelty"...hmm. How did the Sioux treat pows? Do you oppose capital punishment, torture and infanticide? The Sioux practiced all three. The scumbag Sioux obtained the Black Hills by the usual method...they killed the previous occupants. We owe them precisely zilch. FJB
Thank you. This is the best and most concise description covering the entire battle in real-time that I've seen anywhere. I've been interested in this battle for many years and read and studied most of the literature on the subject. While I thought I had a solid grasp of all the facets involved, this presentation really and finally gelled it for me. Thank you again, and I look forward to seeing more from your channel in the future
My tribe is called Ojibwa from the Sioux. It means that they roast their enemies until puckered. And even though they (the Sioux) are our mortal enemies, I’ve always had deep respect ✊🏽 for Sitting Bull and the braves of the plains natives. Very strong, wise, and courageous people. 👊🏾👌🏾🤘🏾
@@missesmew I see we got a fellow neechie in this comment section, thats nice. full blooded Cree here ✊🏾, from nehiwpotinak aka Piapot First Nation. Our chief was named Payipwat meaning "One who knows the secrets of the Sioux". He spoke both Cree & Sioux, he also knew their medicine, their ceremonies etc.
@@rudeboi_ryu boozoo fellow native, lol. Yes, I’m a card carrying member of the pre colonial order as well. We’re practically cousins, Crees were to the north and Sioux the south. lol Had all of us from top to bottom of North America united as one. Can you imagine what might’ve been? 🤔 Sure would’ve been a lot cleaner continent. Maybe our world wouldn’t be where it is today? Have a great evening my northern brother. 👊🏾👌🏾
Lived just south of the Battlefield in Wyoming and my cabin bordered the Fetterman Battlefield up the hill from Fort Phil Kearny. which was another Indian victory against the US where Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho wiped out Fetterman and his command. A lot of battlefield sites in the area and a lot of history.
Yea the Fetterman Fight was pretty legendary. Red Cloud was a fantastic war chief, and would have impressed some of the most skilled generals at West Point.
The references to killing buffalo: the meaningless peace treaty had the words "for as long as the buffalo roam". Therefore, the Americans wanted to eradicate the buffalo asap.
I think alot of it had to do with the Army recognizing that the buffalo were the main source of sustenance for the natives and that killing off the buffalo, they could, in affect, starve a large portion of the plains natives.
Custer was commonly known as "General Custer," but that was a brevet rank earned during the Civil War. Because he stayed in the Army after the war, he reverted to his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Custer was arrogant, but his main flaw was his desire to be famous. Instead, he became infamous.
@@stephenburke5967 You didn't actually refute what I said. Instead, you just trolled the post with a rude remark. You must be a shallow person living in a very dark place. I'm sorry for you. Custer was a brevet (temporary, or honorary) general during the Civil War. He was given a commission as a Lieutenant Colonel after the war.
"his desire to be famous" give facts.We all know Custer did not revert back to"permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel".Near war's end Sheridan knew that the great Brevet Major General Custer would revert back to his old rank of 2nd Lieutenant and so he promoted Custer in the field to Captain in waiting a post he would acquire at war's end.On July 28th 1866 at Fort Reilly, Kansas the 7th Cavalry was formed and their new commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.I hope this clears any misconceptions you may have about Custer's initial rank.
@@sanjazdravkovic2682 pretty redundant considering I said our isn't perfect. What country isn't full of blood shed. If you wanna get technical our history is far less oppressive and violent compared to other countries considering we are relatively new in comparison.
@@MinimalistOutdoors american history may be new in comparasion ,but it definetly catches to the amount of blood that was shed to the amount of europe one's,and the fact that they are still doing that is crazy...
@@sanjazdravkovic2682 not even close to being true, and besides I find it sad people overlook what is going on at a grand scale in China where no one has rights, they are barraged by their government, and Muslims are getting exterminated.
Poetic justice.The guy was a strutting jerk who was his own greatest admirer.I don't know how true it is,but I read somewhere he used to hand out locks of his hair to his female admirers.I wonder what his height was.
His plan was to send scouts to scatter the horses and rush in and capture Sitting Bull who was still recovering from the Sun Dance. He also wanted to try to time it correctly so that the warriors were out hunting or relaxing so he could basically use Sitting Bull as a bargaining chip. He could not do this however because some of his cooks lit fires the morning of the battle, and the Sioux saw the smoke from the fires. So he basically had to attack otherwise he would be attacked. With respect, I don’t mean to step on toes, I just like to discuss history and educate when I can.
Since there were no soldier survivors from Custer's detachment at Last Stand Hill,it was only from Indian combatants that the true story of what happened at the Little Big Horn Battle could be determined.However,there are several Indian versions to deal with as well.One interesting version was given in 1938 by Sioux Chief John Grass,also known as Joseph White Cow Bull.He encountered Custer and the Seventh Cavalry as a young warrior on the afternoon of June 25,1876,as the lead column of soldiers rode into the ravine known as Medicine Tail Coulee,which was occupied on both sides by hidden Sioux warriors.Chief John Grass recalled,"I had never seen white soldiers before, so I remember thinking how pink and hairy they looked.One white man had little hairs on his face[a mustache] and was wearing a big hat and a buckskin jacket.He was riding a fine looking big horses sorrel with a blazed face and four white stockings[Although there were several officers in buckskin that day,Custer was the only one on a sorrel horse with four white socks] The man in the buckskin jacket seemed to be the leader of these soldiers, for he shouted something and they all came charging at us across the ford.Bobtail Horse fired firsthand I saw a soldier on a grey horse fall out of his saddle into the water.The other soldiers were shooting at us now.The man who seemed to be the soldiers chief was firing his heavy rifle fast.I aimed my repeater at him and fired.I saw him fall out of his saddle and hit the water[Seventh Cavalry Scout Curley described seeing the same incident, and Pretty Shield confirmed that Custer was shot out of his saddle at the very outset of the Custer fight] Shooting that man stopped the soldiers from charging on.They all reigned up their horses and gathered around where he had fallen".Chief John Grass later said the soldiers dragged the wounded Custer further on to Last Stand Hill where they made their last stand.Custer was later found to have been shot in the chest with an additional wound to the head.Interesting tale from an actual eye witness to the battle.Several Indian versions confirm this version of Custer's fate.Is it the truth? Who knows for sure?
Many years ago I read a book from the Native view. It also stated that a leader was shot off his horse at a crossing and stopped the charge. Later in the book it talked about a council the Natives held when they learned Custer was killed. A Native was chosen to admit to being the one that killed Custer. The Natives expected the one who killed Custer to be hung.
@@stevejorgensen5274 Interesting tale that you heard concerning who killed Custer.However,no Indian brave who wasn't a major chief of his tribe, never met Custer in person.They didn't know what he looked like.They probably never met a white man before, so they all looked alike.Many of Custer's men wore long hair and mustaches, as well as buckskin jackets.Custer was recognized only after he was dead on Last Stand Hill.
Really, the people at fault were the politicians who designed the policy aimed at the Plains tribes. Custer was just a cog in a much larger wheel. That's the problem with being in the military. You don't get to apply your own standards to things that should never take place.
Have just finished "Killing Crazy Horse" by Bill O'reilly. It's an easy read and covers many battles. I recommend it if you like Indian history. Good book.
According to the later account of a prominent Hunkpapa chief Gall, the old Santee Wahpekute chief Inkpaduta (a warrior who had been fighting the soldiers for twenty years from Iowa & Minnesota to the Dakotas & Montana) deserved a sizable portion of the credit for the Sioux victory at the Greasy Grass. Inkpaduta, about 70 years old and nearly blind, was fishing in the river with two of his young grandsons early that afternoon when one of the boys called his attention to a large dust cloud to the southeast moving towards them on an otherwise windless day. The seasoned old veteran didn’t need to see it to know immediately what it meant: soldiers were approaching. His grandsons supported him as he hobbled through the Hunkpapa and Santee circles at the southern edge of the great Sioux encampment, calling on the warriors to gather first and then go out en masse and meet the battalion led by Major Marcus Reno advancing from the south. The warriors soon attacked and stopped Reno cold, killing or wounding nearly half of his 140 men in the rout that followed. Gall, well satisfied with the progress of this fight in removing one threat to the Sioux flank, then turned his attention to attacking Custer’s battalion across the river, with well-documented results. According to Hunkpapa Chief White Bull (a nephew of Sitting Bull and the man many Sioux said personally killed Custer), one of Inkpaduta's enormous twin sons, Sounds the Ground as He Walks, fought alongside the group of Lakota braves that overran the remaining group of forty or so troopers clustered around their colonel’s position on Last Stand Hill, and the huge Wahpekute took Custer’s horse “Vic" as his share of the spoils (some Sioux also claim Inkpaduta’s son, and not White Bull, was the warrior who killed Yellow Hair Custer). Inkpaduta's descendants claim that Sounds the Ground as He Walks rode Vic for many years afterward and their description of the horse matches that of Vic in the only know photograph of Custer's mount. His twin brother Tracking White Earth did not fare so well: he reportedly would die about a year later from wounds he received that day. Inkpaduta retreated to Canada along with Sitting Bull. He died about 1881, the last Sioux chief never to surrender to the white man or live on a reservation.
You mean the history of mankind. Because we didn't invent what happen its happened since Caveman 1 wanted Caveman 2 wife, cave, fire and food! Some would simply call it Man's Nature
I Agree, Sad , BUT Some People Don't want to know or Hear The Truth 😥🇺🇸🙏 About What The Soldier's Did to These Indians , But God SEE'S and Know's The Truth !! Americans STOLE / TOOK THEIR LAND FROM THEM .
@@christopherscott8747 On the contrary- I Care that others are not influenced by your take on this thread Pal- you know nothing about basic evolution, anthropology.The western hemisphere originally numbered in the millions, and their lifestyles- water and celestial navigation, sustainable agriculture, architecture, still can't be replicated today. Indigenous peoples were SO much more than cave-man politics you try to explain them away with.
Again, the United States government had decided to overlook their treaty an invade the natives' sacred grounds when gold was discovered. Were Custer's "successful campaigns over the natives slaughters of the opposition, leading to the natives retaliation wanton killing of the wounded in the later battle? This was the first time that I learned that the forces under Sittn Bull and Crazy Horse were armed, along with bows and arrows, with multi-shotk, rapid-fire Winchesters and Henry rifles. The troops of the 7th Calvary were armed with inferior single-shot carbines. Those armed with bow and arrows could reload and hoot faster than a soldier could reload the single shot weapon of the day. This was the importance of Winchesters and Henry rifles, which allowed rapid fire of 8 to 10 round in rapid succession. In movies, Custer is commonly portrayed as continuing to fight while struck by multiple arrows. Here, we learn that it was bullets, not arrows, that felled the Lieutenant Colonel.
Respect to native Americans but I have to agree with the other comment. They were not alike at all. The Spartans were an aristocratic army of professional soldiers with a strict proto-eugenics program, and an economy built on slavery.
@@jacobvanstone6839 yea... Didn't want to get into the specifics like economy, women's rights and agriculture. Love Crazy horse but a Spartan he was not. Just like Leonidas was no Lakota.
@@scootch4224 No offence but WTF are you even on about? They didnt give a fck where they came from. AND you are wrong FULL FUCKING STOP. a strict proto-eugenics program
1:50 When you’re intentionally trying to starve people to death, don’t expect any mercy. In reality, the European settlers were not about to leave and give up this fertile land (having fought for independence from Europe), so I wish there had been a way for both peoples (the many indigenous tribes and the Europeans) to live along side each other to mutual benefit. Genocide and relocation to reservations was not the answer.
Nice simple recount of the battle. There are far more nuances. Most importantly it wasn't just the numbers that finished off Custer's men as much as the weaponry which, incredibly enough, favored the Sioux. The Sioux fighters had anywhere from 100 to 300 Henry and/or Sharp repeating rifles while the 7th had none. The 7th had single shot Springfield rifles and handguns putting them at a disadvantage. Further, Custer was never one to reconnoiter a position. He wasn't familiar with, and his men were not prepared for, the extremely hilly terrain with deep ravines. Further, Reno's pull back against the larger force allowed them to break off and combine against Custer's smaller companies. Reno lost control of the situation ( he was severely shaken by splattering blood and skull fragments from a scout shot in the head nearby) and was saved by Benteen's return. However, Benteen would not attempt to reach Custer despite hearing the sounds of the battle. Would the combined forces have turned the tide or would the slaughter have been greater. We'll never know. A detailed account with recounts from both sides can be found in N Philbrick's "The Last Stand".
The few hundred men in the combined Reno/Benteen force would have been overwhelmed if they tried to ride to Last Stand Hill. By the time Benteen met Reno, Custer's force was dead. They'd have ridden into a hornet's nest from which they couldn't escape.
@@stevenweaver3386 From what I read the men under Reno and Benteen heard the fighting and some wanted to continue to the fighting but Benteen nixed it. Despite his well known animosity towards Custer he probably assessed the situation similar to you . It would be hard to dispute it from the safety of my den.
The entire story of "Custer's Last Stand" is just that, a story. And it's mere propaganda to make Custer and the troops into some kind of heroes, valiantly defending a position until the bitter end. Battlefield archeology, particularly matching spent cartridge cases which can be forensically matched to a particular rifle show that there never was 'a last stand'. It was in fact a running skirmish with the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry constantly retreating, moving, trying to escape the oncoming warriors under Crazy Horse. The numbers of soldiers steadily dwindled as they were repeatedly out-maneuvered by the Native warriors. In the end, verbal accounts from the victors tell of a panicked rout with the remaining soldiers running desperately, trying to escape. There never was a 'heroic last stand'. It was just a lop-sided victory by the native warriors over an out-numbered, poorly led force of soldiers who were led to slaughter by an incompetent commander.
When soldiers risk there lives that makes them heroic.they lost there lives and were outnumbered Your attitude is disrespectful to there memories.It is very easy to sit on your phone and be a know it all .The soldiers were sent there and they died.They r heroes
@@salvatoresgobbo3307 I was not disrespectful of the soldiers. I said they were led to slaughter by an incompetent commander (Custer). He made several key errors including dividing his forces and failing to properly asses the situation. He was arrogant and vain. He assumed that he was up against a much smaller number of Native Americans than he actually was. He also wrongly assumed that most of the 'enemy' were women and children when in fact, there was a large number of fighting men. He failed the simplest and most important lesson for commanders, "Never underestimate your enemy". He failed to properly asses the enemy. He attacked an unknown force which turned out to be disastrous. The soldiers did what they could but because of Custer's ineptitude, they were put in a position from which there was no possibility of survival. My point was that there never was a heroic 'Last Stand'. It was a running skirmish. The 'Last Stand' myth as portrayed in many movies never happened. You should also some research into why the army was there in the first place and what their intentions were. There was certainly nothing heroic about that.
@@stephenland9361 my understanding, Custer's scouts warned him that there were more indians than expected, and he didn't pay any heed to the scouts. i have watched the exploration of the battlefield, and it was a running slaughter. one more thing, i believe someone found a soldiers body that was uncovered in a riverbank in the 1970's or 80's and it was to be believed to be one of Custer's men. i could be wrong, but i do remember hearing a story of that nature.
@@salvatoresgobbo3307 they went there to collect human body parts a trophies (common practice by US ARMY) for the time and became trophies themselves! Hoka Hey!
The BBC RUclips video 'Custer's Last Stand is excellent. It is not slanted to either side. The main program consultant was Michael Donahue who was the ranger who for years gave the program speech to visiting tourists at the National Monument. He also wrote a great book "Where the Rivers Ran Red" about the Sioux campaign including Little Bighorn.
This presentation wasn't that bad until it came to Custer 'leading a successful campaigne against a Cheyenne village'. The attack on Black Kettle's camp at the Washita River was a total massacre, nothing less, where Custer and the 7th Cavalry also got away from being attacked and probably defeated by hundreds of Cheyenne Dog Soliders, as the regiment used captive women and children as human shields. Describing this as a 'successful campaigne' is just sickening and beyond bizarre. Also claiming that Custer 'knew the terrain better' than the natives is ridiculous. It still reaches another low when showing a picture that is supposed to be Tȟašúŋke Witkó (Crazy Horse). There is NO photo of the Oglala war chief existing. The only known picture is a sketch drawing, so please stop such disinformation. Still, it's a quite interesting and detailed preesentation of the Battle of the Greasy Grass, but it also needs nuance. The Lakota and Cheyenne warriors were armed with a wide specter of firearms, even old muzzle loaders. The 2.361 cartridges, bullets and cases found on the battle ground came from 45 different types of firearms. However, many of the cavalry troopers were killed while fleeing, with a blow to the head from a 'scull cracker', a very effective stone club and a basic weapon for the warriors. There's little mentioning of 'tomahawks', and it's largely a myth that basically repeating rifles, Winchesters and Henrys, were crucuial to Custer's defeat. There has not been found archaeological evidence of more than 89 such weapons. Regardless, Custer's main battalions were outgunned as well as outnumbered.
Read Custer's autobiography journal. Yes he wrote one before the Little Big Horn. He didn't use them as human shields. He forbid his troops to kill women and children. In that he noted that he was not totally able to enforce that in the heat of battle. Custer did everything in his power to convince the indians to be peaceful.
Nah haha according Sitting Bull, Custer was fearless even in his last moments. His reckless courage didnt stop even as the Sioux closed in on and annihilated himself, his brothers and relatives, and the rest of his men
Back in the 1980s my neighbor a retired movie costume designer, who was a expert on American military history. Wore a ring that sealed letters, he said he was in the USA, working on a film. He went to a thrift store and was looking through old jewelry when he came across the ring, he knew what it was right away. It was general Custer's sealing ring, that his wife had given the general on the day he was made a general, as a present.
@@johnmandock56 because the man in question, was an American civil war expert. He was an adviser for film companies on all aspects of the American military. He did the costumes for the UK movie Zulu also as well as many movies. He was a lovely gentleman and his dear wife, the sort of people who are really genuine and interesting.
Took a road trip yrs back and made a detour to the war site. Very well maintained national area. Yeah sure,.. you have your standard tourist nick nack shop but its worth the drive. Seeing all the markings of crosses during sunset on a windy day was priceless.
Got to visit here at Battle of the Greasy Grass a few years ago. Glad that the federal troops lost. But then the government turned up the heat to put down the Lakota, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Crow and others with a vengeance. How our country handled the native Americans is a travesty...we know this. We've broken every treaty. Forgive me if some information I've stated is inaccurate.
@Steven Colombo No silly I am not. I stated "forgive me if some information I've stated is inaccurate." I was dealing with small grandchildren the day I posted response, so in haste, erred. The Crow many times were used as scouts by federal troops to hunt down their enemy.The Lakota did not think we'll of them for that and other sellout reasons. We stayed at Hardin, Montana in a motel owned by Crow. My advice to young men is not be so hasty to brand someone a negative name.
@UCl_Oj2WAytjhS2Me7GdzAsQ and you guys literally started residential schools "in the name of god", and senselessly killed millions of Natives Americans. Your not worthy of using his name in this conversation, especially to enforce your racist ways. Go back to Europe you dumb fuck, how does that sound?
I remember hearing the story that after Custer was dead, the natives cut his ears open slightly so that in the next world he would be able to hear the words of those whom he had ignored in this world.
This story has always fascinated me from the time I first heard about it as a young grade school kid… A fantastic book on this subject is, “Son of the Morning Star” by Evan S. Connell… Skillfully written, it is impressive on the amount of information about Custer, his “last stand” & the way of life for all the native Americans that were involved… Great read!
I also live in illinois, how are you in any way facing oppresion? You make it sound like we live in some distopian world where if you are native american you are rounded up and killed so you have to be silent about it.
Custer should've followed the original plan and waited for reinforcements. Vanity got the best of him. The Native Americans won the battle but still lost the war.
@@31terikennedy They should have waited for the reinforcements. I don't think Crazy Horse would have risked a preemptive attack. Besides, the aftermath of this defeat would be a rallying-cry from workers, business and ranchers in favor of a continuance and expansion off all-out war against the natives. In the end, the vison was correct...albeit incomplete.
@@fluff1353 To begin with the Army was there because the Sioux and Cheyenne were encroaching on Crow land. The Army wasn't trying to overwhelm and kill as many Indians as they could. The policy was to convince the Indians to return to the reservation. When you think LBH also think the Doolittle raid against Japan. It was psychologically to impress the Indians that they were not safe anywhere but the reservation. Nobody knows what Crazy Horse was up to. Custer was always the lone tip of the spear. He was at the Washita and he was at the LBH. Custer attacked from one side of the village and left the backdoor opened to give the Indians some place to go.(that's a page out Sun Tzu's the Art of War. Custer's objective was to neutralize Indian mobility by destroying and capturing Indian horses (put everyone afoot, less mischief that way). It was supposed to be a four prong assault with everyone going in simultaneously ( the same as the Washita) No scout to the left or Reno attacking alone, that was hearsay from Reno and Benteen.
@@31terikennedy Psychology wasn't going to work in that situation...not in that world. Not against tribes united with enemies against what they perceived as a bigger enemy. I doubt that the Lakota would have given a damn about what books Custer read. Fact is, they knew the area better, they were better organized, and Custer misread or was given misleading scout information other than the warning he received about waiting it out.
@@fluff1353 You're giving the Indians way to much credit for their ability for command and control. It doesn't matter if the Indians knew who Sun Tzu was but does matter that they fell victim to his strategy. Did they really know the area? The Sioux and Cheyenne were encroaching on Crow land. Custer, initially, wanted to wait before attacking but word got back to him that the Indians were seen to have found a lost Army pack and the critical element of surprise might have been compromised. As it turned it out it wasn't and the Indians were totally surprised. The LBH failed because of the treachery of two officers, Reno and Benteen. When Reno gave away the initiative by prematurely attacking, Custer immediately developed a defensive plan to concentrate by sending the same order, twice, to Benteen to come quick. Custer then staged a feint at the river to relieve the pressure on Reno. The Indians broke off from Reno and concentrated on Custer. Benteen chose to disobey his orders. Captain Weir tried to take his men to join Custer and made it as far as Weir's Point before Benteen came out and brought them back. Weir was the only officer to dispute what really happened and came up dead by the following December. (sound familiar?) To say the Indians were better organized than a cavalry regiment is patently absurd. The bigger the Indian force, the more unwieldy it became.
I've Never Know the Real Story... A Great Story... So many loses on both sides. Very Unfortunate that some of the Natives didn't heed Sitting Bulls warning. Thanks for Sharing
I was fortunate enough to visit this site back in April 2020. It was very sobering seeing all the scattered grave markers following how the troops dispersed when being attacked. Good video showing how the army an natives moved around. Thanks.
I remember in college that some commentaries believe this battle took less than 30 minutes, and other commentaries saying less than 15 minutes. But they all agree that it was a very quick battle
A decent although simplified presentation of the events leading up to and during the battle. One thing though: there is no verified photo of Crazy Horse in existence. He would not allow his picture to be taken. So that one screen at 3:14 is inaccurate for that reason. Also, while the camp did break up to move due to the news of other soldiers coming, they were not outnumbered (@11:18). It was Gibbon's column that the warriors detected, which only had about 450 men. Benteen and Reno's force was still over 350-400, but was pretty beat up and surrounded at that point. Given the frequently cited low estimate of 1,500 warriors at the battle (high estimates stated 3,000, but that's unlikely), they clearly were not outnumbered. It was a well considered strategic withdrawal, breaking up into smaller and smaller bands that would be harder to track and follow. Terry's column would have added another 900+ to the U.S. forces, but it took a while for everyone to get there.
Custer’s thwarting of the Confederate cavalry envelopment of the Union center which was facing a free natal assault on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg may well have saved the day for the Union. One thing is certain, General Custer was courageous.
RIP To the 268 US cavalrymen and scouts (six who were wounded later died of wounds),136 Native American warriors, and ten non-combatant Native Americans who were killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
@@ToddSauve and yet they were spoiling for a fight when news broke of the annihilation of Custer’s company. Had they pursued the Indians they would have had to abandon their supply train to catch up, and that would mean they themselves would be caught without adequate supplies just to survive.
Thanks very much for the upload. Very succinct and very interesting. Enjoyed it immensely and now have a good knowledge of how the battle developed. Kindest Regards
Take their land, their food, their culture, their lives, and if they fought back, call them savages. nowadays the US gov simply labelled them who fought back as terrorist.
Some while afterwards an Indian that fought in the battle was asked " How long was Custer's last stand" he replied "as long as it takes a hungry man to eat his breakfast "
I was in Rapid City in the early 90's. My late husband and I were having dinner at a restaurant. As the sun set over the Black Hills I thought to myself. No wonder the Lakota fought so hard. It was the most beautiful sunset I ever saw. Truly God lives here.
@@joannemaguuire9664 Nice to meet you, smile 😊 are you fully American? I'm a Polish American, Mum from Lublin Poland while my dad an American. I was born here in the States but was raised in Poland by my Aunt who is married to an East Indian and I do speak English Fluently though I have an accent not so sure if you really like it but most people do. So don't know if you mind accent?
I'm British. I wanted to tell my eleven-year-old son how historical events can be twisted and portrayed for specific narratives. I showed him RUclips clips from "They Died with Their Boots On" and "Little Big Man". Chalk and cheese.
Interesting enough I wrote a paper on the battle of LBH over 40 years ago for a history project it took me months of studying going through archives and Indian testimony's , He a summary of what I found I hope its an interesting read and remember this is my opinion. After Custer split his force and waved to Reno on the bluffs watching him attack the village he moved along the ridges until he could see lots of women and children milling about in the village (Custer was looking at the middle not the end of the village) He then split his force again leaving company's C/I/L to guard his flank while sending Company E to find the end of the village and taking company F to try and find a fording point of the river. According to Pretty Shield (Lakota Women) the Soldiers approached the river and two warriors fired into them knocking the two leading men of their horses , At this the soldiers picked up their men put them back on their horses and retreated back up the hill , What I think happened here was Custer was mortally wounded to the chest and company F made it to last Stand Hill in the hope the Surgeon could save Custer its interesting to note Company F and HQ Company never left the hill we know this because their grave markers , This would indicate they stood with their commander to the end. Meanwhile Company E was recalled and formed skirmish lines on lower Skirmish Hill just below Last Stand Hill but , In Capt Keogh's sector Company L had formed skirmish lines and Company C was given the task of driving away the Indians from the coulee which they did very briefly until they started to lose men from counter fire most notably from a hill leading up the coulee , Company C lost half their number retreating back towards company L who had to invert their skirmish line in order to cover C company survivors but by doing so they took flank fire and were routed on Calhoun Ridge. As C/L Company's dashed to I Company still in reserve events were quickening I don't think Keogh expected the oncoming attack so quickly I believe he was hit quite early and grave markers indicate two groups of I Company bodies one surrounding Keogh and another further up the hill around 100 yards away probably the fleeing survivors trying to make it to last Stand Hill. By now I believe Tom Custer had taken charge his brother lying dying , He could see fleeing soldiers trying to make their way up to Last Stand Hill some actually making it but their was no cover on the hill the soldiers were exposed so the order was given to shoot the horses and make barricades , At this point it was a matter of time , Company E may have been the last soldiers alive and some made a dash for the deep ravine although I believe none made it there contrary to accounts as no artefacts' have ever been found in the ravine and no shell casings. I think some of last actions of the battle was Tom Custer shooting his brother knowing that the Indians don't scalp suicides and not wanting his brother to be taken alive , Tom himself fought bravely we have Indian accounts and soldier accounts of pools of blood around his body where he had shot with his repeating rifle many hostiles , Toms body was the most mutilated body on the battlefield he was well known by many Lakota and one Lakota had threatened to eat his heart. Their you go my account of the true battle of Little Big Horn from the Custer point of view.
While your analysis is not unreasonable I don't believe Custer was killed or wounded at the Medicine Tail ford. The accounts of Custer's chest wound suggest that it would have been fatal, if not immediately then within minutes from blood loss. The sorting to the Medicine Tail ford seems more exploratory in nature. If Custer was leading an attack he likely would have taken more than one company. The village was reportedly deserted at the ford so there would have been no reason to enter with no hostages to capture. It's also not likely that Tom Custer took command while the 7th put up any serious resistance. Keogh was senior after Custer in that wing and Yates after him. If Custer had been killed or incapacitated at the ford it's more probable that Yates would have moved in reunite with Keogh and await Benteen's reinforcements. Instead, there's some archeological evidence that suggests E and F companies moved further north beyond Last Stand Hill looking for another ford or potential hostages and that sounds like the kind of aggressive approach Custer would take.
Good question. There is a drawing held by the Lakota that some of them say is Crazy Horse. There are a number of other inaccuracies in this video but I don't know where they got their sources.
You are correct, Estrid. We know from those who knew him that he was not particularly tall and that his hair was slightly wavy and more brown than black. (He was sometimes called Curly as a boy.) However, his father was Sioux; his mother was, I think, Northern Cheyenne.
Every native account I've read shows Custer and his main scout Mitch Boyer being shot as they crossed the river entering the Indian camp. Custer took the bullet to the chest and was dragged from the river by his men and up to last stand hill. Boyer was also shot in the river and killed by Indians right there. The entire battle took place over an immense area and over several days. What doomed last stand hill was a suicide charge of teenage Indian boys looking for glory who successfully ran off the trooper's horses. There was no escape now. Unlike pictured, Custer had short hair, fought in his shirt sleeves and a large straw hat pinned up on the right side. He was probably almost dead before the Indians overran the hill. About 40-50 troopers broke from the hill into the ravine running to the river for safety but never made it. Benteen and Reno were over a mile away during this fight. Custer had always thought they were on their way to reinforce his men. After the fight, the warrior's women arrived on the scene and cut the heads, arms and legs from the dead soldiers. They were so mutilated that the arriving troops from a ship on the river didn't recognize any but Custer as they left him alone. The ones escaping through the ravine that weren't killed outright were dragged into the camp, tied to trees, disemboweled and burned to death. Sitting Bull acknowledged the victory but also knew it was the end.
Bob, your account is excellent and better detailed than this video. While I admire the indians for their fighting ability and courage, the way they massacred the wounded and mutilated nearly all the bodies was uncalled for and appalling. When General Terry found the abandoned indian camp they found the decapitated heads of 3 troopers in an empty teepee, the indians had kept them as trophies. The video never explained why all Custer's command died to the last man (many if not a majority of the fatalities were wounded men who were massacred) or the desecrating the bodies by warriors, brutality like that on both sides needs to be called out for what it was-not glossed over. Or you end up portraying history unrealistically which historians should never do. I can't subscribe to this site until they present all the facts and not just those that fit their view on events.
@@johnmandock56 It wasn't easy. Some by personal items still with them, some by tattoos and other blemishes, some by their chopped off head being used as trophies in the Indian village. They had a list of all personnel there and started accounting for them by process of elimination.
New suscriber, I'm honored to be here. The greatest loves of my life have been with a Seminole lady and then a Blackfoot lady. I honestly don't know if I'll ever be that happy again. Every day I pray.
A shameful time in our nations history. As a military veteran I will say that what our government did to the native Americans was nothing short of disgraceful. I love this country and what it stands for but many of the things that were done were carried out in the wrong way and with no respect to the native inhabitants of this land.
I'm just going through " The Journey of the Crazy Horse " while " Burry My Heart at Wounded Knee " and " Empire of the Summer Moon " await me. I've been fascinated by Natives since I was a small boy and used to play with small, plastic toys of Natives and Cowboys. Much love and respect from Serbia to the Native community - the true Americans.
Lived in San Juan Island WA where Custer was comander of Garrision during the Pig War. It was a boundary dispute with 1day of shooting with the only casualty being a pig. True, look it up.
Fun fact: Custer’s Last Stand, a 1936 movie serial directed by Elmer Clifton, supposedly hired a number of Arapahos who actually fought at the Little Bighorn as extras
Had no idea about this. Thank you!
Well seeing as how 1936 is 60 years after 1876 that would mean that the indians who were 20 in 1876 would be 80 years old in 1936 so. not a likely scenario.More rumours for tards.
@@jimtwisted1984 The Indians had teenaged boys in the camp - some of whom were engaged in the action. There is in fact one version (among many, many different versions) in which it was two teenaged boys who shot Custer as he tried to cross the river.
So - no - these are not in the least "rumors for tards" - but things that certainly _could_ have happened. Now - the fact that these people were said to be hired as "extra's" could mean anything as to their actual roles in the film. They might well not have been hired to act like they'd been shot off the back of a running horse ... but there are any number of other roles they might have played - say - standing around in the back ground playing and "old" Indian.
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twisted exactly more fake history by uneducated half wits just speaking without thinking . I blame their parents and schools lol Garryowen
@@BobSmith-dk8nw you mean the suicide boys, and no sadly it is rumors for retards in most cases here , Garryowen
I am from Scotland and visited the site around six years ago. I spent some time in the visitor centre getting the story from the native descendants. The spot where each death took place is marked with a cross and name where known. The battle field went on for miles and not in a small area as depicted in the original movie. Respect to all native Americans.
18% of the dead were irish, 3% Scottish 15% germanic regions ( swiss, austria, germany, Prussia) norway had 4 deaths, sweden 2, denmark 4, italy 1, Poland 3, russia 1, the 7th cavalry mustered out of st paul minnesota, and half of the regiment was born in europe. Hell even a black man from lousiania ( a scout), and a mexican was in the 7th. Black man mutilated.
Respect to all the Europeans that left the earth fighting bravely that day.
RIP
@@ripvanwinkle1819 So were the whites, stop trying to make a race issue out of this.
@@BasedinReality1984 Why is your respect for courage and martial valor dependent on skin color or ancestry? I respect all the brave souls who lost their lives that day, but just remember that the Native American warriors were fighting for their way of life, their women and children, and the Europeans were colonist mercenaries, fighting for westward expansion, industrialization and corporate greed. I know which side I'm on.
@@jimclark6256 a social construct? Race? Lol I'm not. The Shoshone, Arakawa, Mandan, crow, and 2/3 of the lakota nation were on (allied) the 7th cavalries side. The agreement s had already been made with all chiefs in dakota territory. 1/3 of lakota and cheyenne followed Buffalo herds into Arakawa and crow territory ( breaching tribal rights of the crow, Arakawa, shoshone) with multiple scalping of innocents ( red and white, male and female). This wax a police action, not military, the US Civil War with 850,000 deaths just happened not 10 years earlier and the military was gutted to nothing. Maybe 10000 active. Most were foreign. Hilarious you bring up ' race', mr modern snowflake youtube racist, because it IS well documented that whites DID fight alongside some of these tribes. Best guess was the cheyenne. Most likely old French trappers, or some hangover confederates from the Civil War. See, this land and tribes has LONG seen contact with 'whites' 2 centuries before even lewis and Clark ', sacagawea was married to a French trappers, they ALL KNEW FRENCH, AND THEY WERE ALL CATHOLIC! I didn't bring up race, I brought up history. If you want to contact me I will give you my address and come visit.
I grew up on an American Indian Reservation of Lakota Sioux (my father was an employee in Indian Health services). I wish I was old enough back in the day, to appreciate the fact that there were a handful of individuals still living, who were at the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
I think the last combatant of the battle only died in the early 1960s! So its crazy that there is people still alive that have spoken with people who fought at Little Bighorn.
You used the proper etiquette when stating it was " Battle of the Greasy Grass.".
The plan for this battle was flowed..one wrong place all tribes were together..with families...indians knew the terrain had more than enough fire power..than single shot of custers men.....trie sided attack didn't wait to met up coming from south were fighting a day before custer arrived and lost supplies bottles were used to retreat back south so the trip sided attack was not there custer arrived and by his self..the troops from the west was a few days late they wasn't there either but custer didn't stop he split the troops..they were doomed..
The last Great Plains Native American died in 2016 at 103 his father was a scout for the crow that sadly assisted Custer before the battle at little big horn
One of my ancestors Wasichula, or “Little White Man” was in the battle as a teenager. He was the son of a soldier and a Lakota mother. He was raised by the whites at ft. Robinson until he was eight when he ran away back to Crazy Horse’s people. Parts of his story were the basis of the movie Little Big Man. I have a picture of him at the 50th anniversary of the survivors in 1926. There is a silent film of the survivors riding in a parade, it’s in the Colorado history museum’s collection. Viewable on RUclips. Don’t know which of the riders is my ancestor, bit I know he is in there. Hoka Hey!
I remember it well, it was a good die to die!!! Hoka Hey!!!
this the movie with Dustin Hoffman?
paul VON the movie was “little big man”, but was partly based on my ancestors story. The movie’s writer researched using local/regional books and was aware of little white mans story.
@@tedecker3792 I loved that movie. Thanks for sharing. I thought it was fiction. Now I know.
Bueatiful story, I wish more would talk about these things. So many people are mixed as your ancestor was we have a foot in both worlds and it's very hard to walk in them sometimes, I think it would be easier if we all realized how much mixing actually went on and still goes on.
Infinite respect to the brave warriors of the native tribes, fighting to preserve their way of life
The good guys won this time.
@Steven Colombo look! a typical Republican who still believes Natives are savages
I mean… they were native to the land that we killed them over…. Ever read a history book?
@steven colombo it was still there land…. I see people today slaughtered over looking at someone the wrong way
@Steven Colombo koala not a bear, but you can't even get that right. Typical.
Promises made...Promises broken...Gold over honor.
As it is yet today in the Americas, a shortage of honor and integrity among the colonizers.
@@ronhanson9453 What colonizers? There are none living today.
@@jesuschristmas420 there are conservatives who share the same ideology’s and who our “proud” of what there four fathers did. Sick fucks!
@@jesuschristmas420 everyone in the United States should be open arms to our Amerindian brothers seeking asylum from the south. As we did with there caucazoid ancestors hundreds of years ago time to pay us back with a portion of AZTLAN
@@johnbishop4426 you racist do know that the Lakota had broken the treaty first by attacking the crows? you do know that the Black hills belonged to the crow first before the Lakota stole them?
The US Government don't mind talking about this battle. But what about what the US Government did to the Native Americans at Wounded Knee where 900 + tribes people were murdered.
i agree friend.. such a shame how the Natives were treated
They also dont like talking about all the natives who sided with the Confederacy.
Woe to the vanquished
Say you’re you’re right why they don’t talk about Wounded knee are the trail of tears that is a part of American history right actually that’s the part that is hidden from history now why is this😎
General Crook once said that the only way we won the plains Indians wars was the tribes hated each other and the enemies of the Apache and Sioux were more than happy to help us.
As a descendant of CUSTER, visiting the battlefield gave me a weird feeling the entire time I was there. Like everyone else, trying to vision that day. Constantly feeling the presence of both CUSTER and the Indians while walking in their footsteps. I may be a CUSTER, but have always felt bad for the Indians and the tragedies that happened to them. They had their life living off the land and it was all taken away by progress, greed and selfishness. Buffalo being their number one resource for survival being slaughtered for sport and hides. I’ve been a hunter for over 50 years and have never taken an animal for just the fun of it.
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This comment is the first time in my life that I have associated respect with the name of Custer, and I say that as someone who despises everything GAC stood for. Bravery is a big thing for First Nations People.
@@dompuma9620 You are Canadian.
@@ToddSauve I am Aymaran. Not Canadian, not American, not Indian, not Latino, not Hispanic etc. Peace.
@@dompuma9620 I only guessed that because you use the term First Nations.
My great great grandfather was killed at this battle! He was camping nearby and wandered over and asked them to keep the noise down
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Thank you for sharing this historic event in a way that
did not choose sides but conveyed the events as they occured. "Never underestimate an enemy, especially when fighting in his own land".
Yeah... America learned that lesson in Vietnam.
@@johndoe_yoe6257 and now in Afghanistan
Why shouldn’t sides be chosen? It’s pretty much widely accepted the whites were more wrong overall due to their known advantage in weapons and due to their known racist attitude toward the natives as a whole. They didn’t view the natives as potential Christians to be converted. They actually have spoken and written down statements expressing their views that natives were in their perspective primitive people. In fact there even were commanders of white military who cited Charles Darwin and the concept of “survival of the fittest” when they tried to explain that they (white Americans) stronger and thus “more fit” to survive while the natives are “unfit” because they were losing battles. I am not even going to go into how that is a fundamentally NOT ONLY an unchristian view, but also a monumental misunderstanding of what Charles Darwin meant by “fittest”. I am just suggesting that even assuming that the natives can be blamed for violent methods that on the whole the whites and the American government consciously and intentionally wanted to exterminate all of them as a people. They just dismissed them as people with the same right to life and to self determination.
If you believe that somehow what I wrote is false or leftist propaganda feel free to state what it is.
@@StopFear when white American settlers had racist views and tendencies toward natives, and treated them as “lesser people”, the Comanches down in Texas were treating anyone who wasn’t part of their tribe as less than the buffalo they were hunting. Gang raping all women captives, skinning alive them afterward and put them on stakes next to their children. The ever creative and inventive torturing method they applied to the war “trophies” were among some of the most gruesome things humans had ever committed. They slaughtered, pillaged, raped, tortured, everyone who wasn’t part of them. So what argument are you actually making here? The early American settlers who occasionally thought other people were lesser, or the big chunk of the world’s population even today, who still don’t even think people of different race are even people. When can the naive people of today starting to wake up and realize, how the world has been and how close are we to our past and how easily all this can reverse to the past. Did Japanese soldiers thought the Chinese were people too when they skewered up Chinese babies on a katana? And when was that? 80 years ago only? And honestly, it’s human nature to root for the little guy, it’s heroic and inspiring to see a guy with his fists fighting another guy holding a pistol. However the reality was, if the natives had nukes, most of them would say let’s nuke all of them whites no doubt, but not the other way around. In an analogy, I visited North Korea years ago, almost everyone hated America down there, and they would nuke America if they can, but in America people don’t like North Korea but no one will ever say let’s nuke it.
@@aalleexx1997 Russia also learned in Afghanistan... Everybody learns in Afghanistan...
History will never again repeat the bravery and high moral that was brought upon the Lakota by Sitting Bull. That story is enough to make you get goosebumps.
How do you know that? Do you know of the miracle that happened at Wounded Knee in 1973? Frank Fools Crow, Russell Means and others were praying in a tipi while a firefight was going on with Feds and traitors of their tribes. They were so focused on praying that they were unaware. When they came out, they found bullets on the ground and embedded in the blankets draped over the framework. This goes back to the Ghost Dances that Native folk tried to use to rid the world of white people. Jesus had visited Holy Man Wovoka of the Paiute and gave him a song and dance to rid the world of evil. He promised they would be protected and their shirts would stop bullets. They disobeyed and tried to use it to rid the world of white people, so their shirts did not stop the bullets.
Really? What about the Rangers at Point du Hoc? Or the British flyers during the Battle of Britain? Or the Canadians who jumped into France during D Day? Or the men of the 101st who were surrounded during the Battle of the Bulge? A great many leaders made sure the aforementioned men were highly motivated and had the bravery to fight the fight they did.
@@nmelkhunter1 Mate we were being exterminated, they knew every day was the last for their entire culture if they didn't fight to the end. Amazing you mentioned all that WW2 stuff without mentioning the heroics of the Jewish people in those countries. Weird to pick a bone about this?
@@chilla12345432 The point is bravery in the face of fire, is bravery in the face of fire.
@@chilla12345432
The Lakota were not being exterminated. They were being forced on to Reservations.
It is not fair, certainly, but extermination was never the goal....removal was.
Nobody claims it was nice....but let's not pretend that the Lakota of the 1800s were a nice, model society full of progressive eco-hippies...they were an expansionist, warlike, ultra-backwards, stone age hunter/warrior patriarchal society. Buying your three wives in exchange for horses, is not exactly the mark of a progressive people.
If you think the Lakota were nice folks just hanging out, hunting, playing the drums and dancing.....Just ask the Crows, Arikaras, Mandans, Ponca, Gros Ventre, Pawnee all about them. Since the Lakota conquered all their lands and engaged in punitive, relentless, horse theft, raiding, killing and land-grabbing against their neighbor tribes. The Lakota drove them all the way out of the areas that they wanted for themselves.
Sitting Bull did not have "high morals" at all. He was the territorial shaman-warlord of the biggest expansionist tribal empire on the Great Plains since the Comanche. Indians had empires too...and they were rarely very nice to each either.
This channel is very underrated. Native history is really interesting yet so underused. Thanks man
Thank You
Yep
We often see history on the white American side being taught in schools but not on the native American side.
@@Wildman-lc3ur you people must not pay attention in school.
@@dustinheath4407 I know I never. But that's why I'm leaning here.
@@dylanthesea2976 I was talking to the guy talking like white people have hidden this away but its come out RUclips to undermine whitefolks power grab. School in the 80s and 90s talked all about the slaughters.
I worked with a cheyenne in 1980, he was 65 years old, he told me his grandfathers version of this battle. He told me that Custer was a coward and thief
Let me give credit where its due, my friend and co worker's name was weasel bear
typico white guy.
According to the Lakota, Custer committed suicide. He was injured, but he died from his own hand.
This is why Custer was not scalped.
To the Native Warriors, suicide was a act of cowardice.
Custer got exactly what he deserved.
Here is what my friend told me .Earlier in the day, prior to the battle, weaselbear told me that the men had gotten paid that day. When it was obvious to custard that they were going to lose Custard tried escaping the battle and along the way he was taking the pay from his dead men eventually the sioux caught up with him and killed him or maybe it was suicide, not sure about that. But my friend did say that by the time the reporters had gotten to the battle scene the military had carried custards body from where he died, some 50 yards from the rest of his men and placed him with his soldiers putting the american flag in his hands. Then they allowed the reporters in
@@melissahyberger well if it was me, i'd rather kill myself then get brutally scalped... Jeezus.
As A OTR truck driver I had the honor of actually stopping and visiting the Crow Agency where the Battle of the Little Big Horn took place serval times....although 99% of what happen that day came from our Native American citizens, they did explained the whole situation the same way you guys just explained it...well done.
So very sad over Greed!!! After all these years we still suffer from greed. Our politician / leaders have learned nothing. May God have mercy on all the lives that were lost.
I’ve lived in Washington State way up on the coast on a small Reservation On the Makkah Reservation, my grandmas partner was one of the few remaining full blood natives if I’m not mistaken. When I broke my arm in 2004 I ended up sitting in front of a tv for 4 months watching all the movies she had on VHS. Smoke Signals, Last Of The Mohicans, Thunderheart, and I learned about Native culture. Wounded knee ect.. Then I found out I’m a quarter southern utte on my Fathers side… great video
Custer's National Monument should be renamed to honor Sitting Bull and others. The fact that the greasy grass site was named for the losers is significant.
I agree. This country continues to celebrate the losers. Put the real warriors on monuments.
@@Dr_Fuzz Not only a loser, today they would say a war criminal, and a bad soldier, who violated orders, for the sake of his own glory, led his soldiers to ruin.
@@drazenbicanic3590 No, you're wrongfully demonizing him. www.cowboysindians.com/2016/04/the-truth-about-george-armstrong-custer/ He actually respected the Lakota as opponents. His major downfall was that he listened to his troops. I've read he once exposed corruption in the BIA.
The truth is that the Lakota would have been in a much better position if they had taken Custer as a POW instead of killing him.
The site started having Custer in its name in 1886. In 1946, it was renamed the "Custer Battlefield National Monument." But in 1991, this was changed to the "Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument." Many people were very angry about that and wrote inflammatory letters to the National Park Service.
Sitting Bull’s Headress, War Shirt, and War Moccasins are on display in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Really? Now that is fascinating. I wonder why that is allowed?
@@dennis7511 They own all of it. It came with Sitting Bull after the Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull gave it to Captain Walsh of the NWMP (at Fort Walsh) as a sign of good faith. All of it was transported to Ottawa, and then to Toronto. Wonder what that would bring on the Antiques Road Show? Btw, Fort Walsh is bearish to Eastend Saskatchewan where Wallace Stegner is from. Also, Scotty, the world’s largest Tyrannosaurus Rex was found near Eastend (there’s a very nice paleontology field station/mini museum there). Scotty supplanted Sue (Chicago Field Museum) as the largest T Rex last year.
@@Robboa1 Walsh was a major in the NWMP. Sitting Bull gave him the head dress he wore on the Little Bighorn. Walsh gave it to Cornelius Van Horn, head of the Canadian Pacific Railway and I believe he passed it on to people in Ontario where it finally ended up in the Royal Ontario Museum. The RCMP museum in Regina also has some of Sitting Bull's belongings on display.
@@ToddSauve My friend is (or recently was) director of that museum - but alas I haven’t visited it in 15 years. I’ve been to ROM twice since then - and think I’ve copied a link to a photo of the exhibit above (ask Mr. Google if anyone out there wants to see it). Thanks for the clarification for the chain of possession - but of course the important part is that Sitting Bull sought some sore of truce whereby they could stay in Canada, and were denied. I think the interpretative material at Fort Walsh indicates a feeling that Sitting Bull was betrayed by the Canadian government. At any rate, they left peacefully, even though they had the ability to level the place
@@Robboa1 Yes, the Lakota kind of trickled away from the encampments around Wood Mountain over the years until Sitting Bull saw no possibility of staying and surviving. Nonetheless, a number of Lakota did stay in Canada and now live on the Wood Mountain--Sitting Bull--reservation in southern Saskatchewan. They are the true survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and have never surrendered. I kind of like that fact!
I read a book many years ago. Don't remember much,it was so full of Native American history....that I never knew. Amazed at the strength,beauty & courage of these people & horrified at the thoughtless cruelty done to them. I salute their dignity & am proud of them,though I don't share their heritage. God bless all of them today.😪😘
"Thoughtless cruelty"...hmm. How did the Sioux treat pows? Do you oppose capital punishment, torture and infanticide? The Sioux practiced all three. The scumbag Sioux obtained the Black Hills by the usual method...they killed the previous occupants. We owe them precisely zilch. FJB
This was the best, most comprehensive narration of the battle of the Little Bighorn I have ever heard. Well done sir.
Thank you. This is the best and most concise description covering the entire battle in real-time that I've seen anywhere. I've been interested in this battle for many years and read and studied most of the literature on the subject. While I thought I had a solid grasp of all the facets involved, this presentation really and finally gelled it for me. Thank you again, and I look forward to seeing more from your channel in the future
Just look at the amazing face of sitting bull , imagine what it was like to be in a room with that presence
I noticed that and I just sat here staring in awe at his chiseled face. I would love to know what was on his mind when the photo was taken.
My tribe is called Ojibwa from the Sioux. It means that they roast their enemies until puckered. And even though they (the Sioux) are our mortal enemies, I’ve always had deep respect ✊🏽 for Sitting Bull and the braves of the plains natives. Very strong, wise, and courageous people. 👊🏾👌🏾🤘🏾
@@missesmew I see we got a fellow neechie in this comment section, thats nice. full blooded Cree here ✊🏾, from nehiwpotinak aka Piapot First Nation. Our chief was named Payipwat meaning "One who knows the secrets of the Sioux". He spoke both Cree & Sioux, he also knew their medicine, their ceremonies etc.
@@rudeboi_ryu boozoo fellow native, lol. Yes, I’m a card carrying member of the pre colonial order as well. We’re practically cousins, Crees were to the north and Sioux the south. lol
Had all of us from top to bottom of North America united as one. Can you imagine what might’ve been? 🤔
Sure would’ve been a lot cleaner continent. Maybe our world wouldn’t be where it is today? Have a great evening my northern brother. 👊🏾👌🏾
His non-whiteness makes him seem magical, doesnt it? So exotic and clean and articulate!
I'm a Custer and Sioux history hobbyist and have been to the Little Big Horn 4 times and walked the battlefield. This documentary was very well done.
What do you think of major Reno and Captain bentine's. I've watched the movie son of the morning Star three times and I felt they let him down.
Lived just south of the Battlefield in Wyoming and my cabin bordered the Fetterman Battlefield up the hill from Fort Phil Kearny. which was another Indian victory against the US where Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho wiped out Fetterman and his command. A lot of battlefield sites in the area and a lot of history.
Yea the Fetterman Fight was pretty legendary. Red Cloud was a fantastic war chief, and would have impressed some of the most skilled generals at West Point.
The references to killing buffalo: the meaningless peace treaty had the words "for as long as the buffalo roam". Therefore, the Americans wanted to eradicate the buffalo asap.
I think alot of it had to do with the Army recognizing that the buffalo were the main source of sustenance for the natives and that killing off the buffalo, they could, in affect, starve a large portion of the plains natives.
That is so horrendous...in many ways! I'm on the side of the Native Americans.
They paid the price. Cattle caused heart attacks where as Buffalo are much more healthy. Our revenge we gave them tobacco.
@@valeriegriner5644 It was war for the most part, one that lasted decades, as bad as it was, it was a smart tactic the US used.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing this.
Custer was commonly known as "General Custer," but that was a brevet rank earned during the Civil War. Because he stayed in the Army after the war, he reverted to his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Custer was arrogant, but his main flaw was his desire to be famous. Instead, he became infamous.
...and dead!
"he reverted to his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel" it seems you haven't a clue what you're posting or making it up as you go along.
@@stephenburke5967 You didn't actually refute what I said. Instead, you just trolled the post with a rude remark. You must be a shallow person living in a very dark place. I'm sorry for you.
Custer was a brevet (temporary, or honorary) general during the Civil War. He was given a commission as a Lieutenant Colonel after the war.
"his desire to be famous" give facts.We all know Custer did not revert back to"permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel".Near war's end Sheridan knew that the great Brevet Major General Custer would revert back to his old rank of 2nd Lieutenant and so he promoted Custer in the field to Captain in waiting a post he would acquire at war's end.On July 28th 1866 at Fort Reilly, Kansas the 7th Cavalry was formed and their new commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.I hope this clears any misconceptions you may have about Custer's initial rank.
and dead
American history is incredible, no country is perfect. I love this country
American history is full of bloodshed and shame ...
@@sanjazdravkovic2682 pretty redundant considering I said our isn't perfect. What country isn't full of blood shed. If you wanna get technical our history is far less oppressive and violent compared to other countries considering we are relatively new in comparison.
@@MinimalistOutdoors american history may be new in comparasion ,but it definetly catches to the amount of blood that was shed to the amount of europe one's,and the fact that they are still doing that is crazy...
@@sanjazdravkovic2682 not even close to being true, and besides I find it sad people overlook what is going on at a grand scale in China where no one has rights, they are barraged by their government, and Muslims are getting exterminated.
It’s ironic how Custer’s plan was to round them up like sheep or massacre them ... but him and his battalion gets surrounded like sheep and massacred.
Poetic justice.The guy was a strutting jerk who was his own greatest admirer.I don't know how true it is,but I read somewhere he used to hand out locks of his hair to his female admirers.I wonder what his height was.
@@susanmccormick6022 wow love it
His plan was to send scouts to scatter the horses and rush in and capture Sitting Bull who was still recovering from the Sun Dance. He also wanted to try to time it correctly so that the warriors were out hunting or relaxing so he could basically use Sitting Bull as a bargaining chip. He could not do this however because some of his cooks lit fires the morning of the battle, and the Sioux saw the smoke from the fires. So he basically had to attack otherwise he would be attacked. With respect, I don’t mean to step on toes, I just like to discuss history and educate when I can.
I think it's ironic that custard got his just desserts....lol
It's also ironic how the so called victory.....all but guaranteed the indians were finished
Since there were no soldier survivors from Custer's detachment at Last Stand Hill,it was only from Indian combatants that the true story of what happened at the Little Big Horn Battle could be determined.However,there are several Indian versions to deal with as well.One interesting version was given in 1938 by Sioux Chief John Grass,also known as Joseph White Cow Bull.He encountered Custer and the Seventh Cavalry as a young warrior on the afternoon of June 25,1876,as the lead column of soldiers rode into the ravine known as Medicine Tail Coulee,which was occupied on both sides by hidden Sioux warriors.Chief John Grass recalled,"I had never seen white soldiers before, so I remember thinking how pink and hairy they looked.One white man had little hairs on his face[a mustache] and was wearing a big hat and a buckskin jacket.He was riding a fine looking big horses sorrel with a blazed face and four white stockings[Although there were several officers in buckskin that day,Custer was the only one on a sorrel horse with four white socks] The man in the buckskin jacket seemed to be the leader of these soldiers, for he shouted something and they all came charging at us across the ford.Bobtail Horse fired firsthand I saw a soldier on a grey horse fall out of his saddle into the water.The other soldiers were shooting at us now.The man who seemed to be the soldiers chief was firing his heavy rifle fast.I aimed my repeater at him and fired.I saw him fall out of his saddle and hit the water[Seventh Cavalry Scout Curley described seeing the same incident, and Pretty Shield confirmed that Custer was shot out of his saddle at the very outset of the Custer fight] Shooting that man stopped the soldiers from charging on.They all reigned up their horses and gathered around where he had fallen".Chief John Grass later said the soldiers dragged the wounded Custer further on to Last Stand Hill where they made their last stand.Custer was later found to have been shot in the chest with an additional wound to the head.Interesting tale from an actual eye witness to the battle.Several Indian versions confirm this version of Custer's fate.Is it the truth? Who knows for sure?
Many years ago I read a book from the Native view. It also stated that a leader was shot off his horse at a crossing and stopped the charge. Later in the book it talked about a council the Natives held when they learned Custer was killed. A Native was chosen to admit to being the one that killed Custer. The Natives expected the one who killed Custer to be hung.
@@stevejorgensen5274 Interesting tale that you heard concerning who killed Custer.However,no Indian brave who wasn't a major chief of his tribe, never met Custer in person.They didn't know what he looked like.They probably never met a white man before, so they all looked alike.Many of Custer's men wore long hair and mustaches, as well as buckskin jackets.Custer was recognized only after he was dead on Last Stand Hill.
Most land is taken by battle. Not a country on earth that hasn't lost or gained land from battle. You win or lose.
Custer had it coming! As they say, You reap what you sow
Really, the people at fault were the politicians who designed the policy aimed at the Plains tribes. Custer was just a cog in a much larger wheel. That's the problem with being in the military. You don't get to apply your own standards to things that should never take place.
Indians had it coming too. Now look at them
Thank you for the great upload. I love learning about Native American history.
Have just finished "Killing Crazy Horse" by Bill O'reilly. It's an easy read and covers many battles. I recommend it if you like Indian history. Good book.
Custer's demise overdue...thank you for precise content. Peace from AZ
It was hard not to take from them like they took from them.
According to the later account of a prominent Hunkpapa chief Gall, the old Santee Wahpekute chief Inkpaduta (a warrior who had been fighting the soldiers for twenty years from Iowa & Minnesota to the Dakotas & Montana) deserved a sizable portion of the credit for the Sioux victory at the Greasy Grass. Inkpaduta, about 70 years old and nearly blind, was fishing in the river with two of his young grandsons early that afternoon when one of the boys called his attention to a large dust cloud to the southeast moving towards them on an otherwise windless day. The seasoned old veteran didn’t need to see it to know immediately what it meant: soldiers were approaching.
His grandsons supported him as he hobbled through the Hunkpapa and Santee circles at the southern edge of the great Sioux encampment, calling on the warriors to gather first and then go out en masse and meet the battalion led by Major Marcus Reno advancing from the south. The warriors soon attacked and stopped Reno cold, killing or wounding nearly half of his 140 men in the rout that followed. Gall, well satisfied with the progress of this fight in removing one threat to the Sioux flank, then turned his attention to attacking Custer’s battalion across the river, with well-documented results.
According to Hunkpapa Chief White Bull (a nephew of Sitting Bull and the man many Sioux said personally killed Custer), one of Inkpaduta's enormous twin sons, Sounds the Ground as He Walks, fought alongside the group of Lakota braves that overran the remaining group of forty or so troopers clustered around their colonel’s position on Last Stand Hill, and the huge Wahpekute took Custer’s horse “Vic" as his share of the spoils (some Sioux also claim Inkpaduta’s son, and not White Bull, was the warrior who killed Yellow Hair Custer). Inkpaduta's descendants claim that Sounds the Ground as He Walks rode Vic for many years afterward and their description of the horse matches that of Vic in the only know photograph of Custer's mount. His twin brother Tracking White Earth did not fare so well: he reportedly would die about a year later from wounds he received that day. Inkpaduta retreated to Canada along with Sitting Bull. He died about 1881, the last Sioux chief never to surrender to the white man or live on a reservation.
Good job , Crazy Horse !
3:17 FYI... That is NOT a picture of Crazy Horse on the far left. There are no known photographs of Crazy Horse.
We have an obligation to educate our children the true history of our nation, the good the bad and the ugly.
You mean the history of mankind. Because we didn't invent what happen its happened since Caveman 1 wanted Caveman 2 wife, cave, fire and food! Some would simply call it Man's Nature
I Agree, Sad , BUT Some People Don't want to know or Hear The Truth 😥🇺🇸🙏 About What The Soldier's Did to These Indians , But God SEE'S and Know's The Truth !! Americans STOLE / TOOK THEIR LAND FROM THEM .
@@christopherscott8747 You only rationalize gross stupidity...
@@petersonlafollette3521 troll elsewhere nobody cares
@@christopherscott8747 On the contrary- I Care that others are not
influenced by your take on this thread Pal- you know nothing about
basic evolution, anthropology.The western hemisphere originally
numbered in the millions, and their lifestyles- water and celestial
navigation, sustainable agriculture, architecture, still can't be replicated
today. Indigenous peoples were SO much more than cave-man politics
you try to explain them away with.
Fascinating stuff
Hell to the yeah!
Again, the United States government had decided to overlook their treaty an invade the natives' sacred grounds when gold was discovered. Were Custer's "successful campaigns over the natives slaughters of the opposition, leading to the natives retaliation wanton killing of the wounded in the later battle? This was the first time that I learned that the forces under Sittn Bull and Crazy Horse were armed, along with bows and arrows, with multi-shotk, rapid-fire Winchesters and Henry rifles. The troops of the 7th Calvary were armed with inferior single-shot carbines. Those armed with bow and arrows could reload and hoot faster than a soldier could reload the single shot weapon of the day. This was the importance of Winchesters and Henry rifles, which allowed rapid fire of 8 to 10 round in rapid succession. In movies, Custer is commonly portrayed as continuing to fight while struck by multiple arrows. Here, we learn that it was bullets, not arrows, that felled the Lieutenant Colonel.
Respect to native Americans I always thought of them to be like Spartans respect and honor!
well they were very different, actually nothing alike
Respect to native Americans but I have to agree with the other comment. They were not alike at all. The Spartans were an aristocratic army of professional soldiers with a strict proto-eugenics program, and an economy built on slavery.
@@jacobvanstone6839 yea... Didn't want to get into the specifics like economy, women's rights and agriculture. Love Crazy horse but a Spartan he was not. Just like Leonidas was no Lakota.
@@jacobvanstone6839 The slaves were mainly war prisoners but yeah.
@@scootch4224 No offence but WTF are you even on about? They didnt give a fck where they came from. AND you are wrong FULL FUCKING STOP. a strict proto-eugenics program
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When you’re intentionally trying to starve people to death, don’t expect any mercy.
In reality, the European settlers were not about to leave and give up this fertile land (having fought for independence from Europe), so I wish there had been a way for both peoples (the many indigenous tribes and the Europeans) to live along side each other to mutual benefit. Genocide and relocation to reservations was not the answer.
What a historical event in recorded history. Thanks for the info.
I lived in Hardin, lived on the Crow reservation and went to school with both Crows and Northern Cheyenes.
Beautiful country, Custer got his .
Nice simple recount of the battle. There are far more nuances. Most importantly it wasn't just the numbers that finished off Custer's men as much as the weaponry which, incredibly enough, favored the Sioux. The Sioux fighters had anywhere from 100 to 300 Henry and/or Sharp repeating rifles while the 7th had none. The 7th had single shot Springfield rifles and handguns putting them at a disadvantage. Further, Custer was never one to reconnoiter a position. He wasn't familiar with, and his men were not prepared for, the extremely hilly terrain with deep ravines. Further, Reno's pull back against the larger force allowed them to break off and combine against Custer's smaller companies. Reno lost control of the situation ( he was severely shaken by splattering blood and skull fragments from a scout shot in the head nearby) and was saved by Benteen's return. However, Benteen would not attempt to reach Custer despite hearing the sounds of the battle. Would the combined forces have turned the tide or would the slaughter have been greater. We'll never know. A detailed account with recounts from both sides can be found in N Philbrick's "The Last Stand".
The few hundred men in the combined Reno/Benteen force would have been overwhelmed if they tried to ride to Last Stand Hill. By the time Benteen met Reno, Custer's force was dead. They'd have ridden into a hornet's nest from which they couldn't escape.
@@stevenweaver3386 From what I read the men under Reno and Benteen heard the fighting and some wanted to continue to the fighting but Benteen nixed it. Despite his well known animosity towards Custer he probably assessed the situation similar to you . It would be hard to dispute it from the safety of my den.
The entire story of "Custer's Last Stand" is just that, a story. And it's mere propaganda to make Custer and the troops into some kind of heroes, valiantly defending a position until the bitter end.
Battlefield archeology, particularly matching spent cartridge cases which can be forensically matched to a particular rifle show that there never was 'a last stand'. It was in fact a running skirmish with the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry constantly retreating, moving, trying to escape the oncoming warriors under Crazy Horse. The numbers of soldiers steadily dwindled as they were repeatedly out-maneuvered by the Native warriors. In the end, verbal accounts from the victors tell of a panicked rout with the remaining soldiers running desperately, trying to escape.
There never was a 'heroic last stand'. It was just a lop-sided victory by the native warriors over an out-numbered, poorly led force of soldiers who were led to slaughter by an incompetent commander.
millions of children trained into anmerican way of life and also sterilised!
When soldiers risk there lives that makes them heroic.they lost there lives and were outnumbered Your attitude is disrespectful to there memories.It is very easy to sit on your phone and be a know it all .The soldiers were sent there and they died.They r heroes
@@salvatoresgobbo3307 I was not disrespectful of the soldiers. I said they were led to slaughter by an incompetent commander (Custer). He made several key errors including dividing his forces and failing to properly asses the situation. He was arrogant and vain. He assumed that he was up against a much smaller number of Native Americans than he actually was. He also wrongly assumed that most of the 'enemy' were women and children when in fact, there was a large number of fighting men. He failed the simplest and most important lesson for commanders, "Never underestimate your enemy". He failed to properly asses the enemy. He attacked an unknown force which turned out to be disastrous.
The soldiers did what they could but because of Custer's ineptitude, they were put in a position from which there was no possibility of survival. My point was that there never was a heroic 'Last Stand'. It was a running skirmish. The 'Last Stand' myth as portrayed in many movies never happened.
You should also some research into why the army was there in the first place and what their intentions were. There was certainly nothing heroic about that.
@@stephenland9361 my understanding, Custer's scouts warned him that there were more indians than expected, and he didn't pay any heed to the scouts. i have watched the exploration of the battlefield, and it was a running slaughter. one more thing, i believe someone found a soldiers body that was uncovered in a riverbank in the 1970's or 80's and it was to be believed to be one of Custer's men. i could be wrong, but i do remember hearing a story of that nature.
@@salvatoresgobbo3307 they went there to collect human body parts a trophies (common practice by US ARMY) for the time and became trophies themselves! Hoka Hey!
The BBC RUclips video 'Custer's Last Stand is excellent. It is not slanted to either side. The main program consultant was Michael Donahue who was the ranger who for years gave the program speech to visiting tourists at the National Monument. He also wrote a great book "Where the Rivers Ran Red" about the Sioux campaign including Little Bighorn.
Can still feel the energy on this battlefield.
I agree. Tremendous energy in that spot
AWWW TOLD ON MITCHELL
HE'S JUST CHARLIE FLOYD
BS
Yep,it's scary to drive by it
This presentation wasn't that bad until it came to Custer 'leading a successful campaigne against a Cheyenne village'. The attack on Black Kettle's camp at the Washita River was a total massacre, nothing less, where Custer and the 7th Cavalry also got away from being attacked and probably defeated by hundreds of Cheyenne Dog Soliders, as the regiment used captive women and children as human shields. Describing this as a 'successful campaigne' is just sickening and beyond bizarre. Also claiming that Custer 'knew the terrain better' than the natives is ridiculous. It still reaches another low when showing a picture that is supposed to be Tȟašúŋke Witkó (Crazy Horse). There is NO photo of the Oglala war chief existing. The only known picture is a sketch drawing, so please stop such disinformation.
Still, it's a quite interesting and detailed preesentation of the Battle of the Greasy Grass, but it also needs nuance. The Lakota and Cheyenne warriors were armed with a wide specter of firearms, even old muzzle loaders. The 2.361 cartridges, bullets and cases found on the battle ground came from 45 different types of firearms. However, many of the cavalry troopers were killed while fleeing, with a blow to the head from a 'scull cracker', a very effective stone club and a basic weapon for the warriors. There's little mentioning of 'tomahawks', and it's largely a myth that basically repeating rifles, Winchesters and Henrys, were crucuial to Custer's defeat. There has not been found archaeological evidence of more than 89 such weapons. Regardless, Custer's main battalions were outgunned as well as outnumbered.
Read Custer's autobiography journal. Yes he wrote one before the Little Big Horn. He didn't use them as human shields. He forbid his troops to kill women and children. In that he noted that he was not totally able to enforce that in the heat of battle. Custer did everything in his power to convince the indians to be peaceful.
This just in. Custer's last words: Ouch, ouch, ouch!
Nope, I think it was "Oops!"
@@ToddSauve lmao 🤣🤣🤣 good one
More like OH crap I really screwed this up
Nah haha according Sitting Bull, Custer was fearless even in his last moments. His reckless courage didnt stop even as the Sioux closed in on and annihilated himself, his brothers and relatives, and the rest of his men
@@kirklandbuchanan3647 Custer did not fight against Sitting Bull, who was at the southern end of the camp. He fought at the northern part of the camp.
The day Custer got outsmarted by Crazy Horse.
I have been to the Little Big Horn Memorial. It was the most humbling experience of my life
Going there is on my bucket list. Hopefully next year!
You need to explore more………
Yes been there to really interesting kinda strange standing there where it happened also went and listened to the person there telling about it
Back in the 1980s my neighbor a retired movie costume designer, who was a expert on American military history. Wore a ring that sealed letters, he said he was in the USA, working on a film. He went to a thrift store and was looking through old jewelry when he came across the ring, he knew what it was right away. It was general Custer's sealing ring, that his wife had given the general on the day he was made a general, as a present.
How does he know for sure? That had to be worth a lot of money if it was proven correct.
@@johnmandock56 because the man in question, was an American civil war expert. He was an adviser for film companies on all aspects of the American military. He did the costumes for the UK movie Zulu also as well as many movies. He was a lovely gentleman and his dear wife, the sort of people who are really genuine and interesting.
This show should be called " Every American should feel ashamed".
Hands down this has been the best explanation of the battle I have seen. Thank you!
Took a road trip yrs back and made a detour to the war site. Very well maintained national area. Yeah sure,.. you have your standard tourist nick nack shop but its worth the drive. Seeing all the markings of crosses during sunset on a windy day was priceless.
Got to visit here at Battle of the Greasy Grass a few years ago. Glad that the federal troops lost. But then the government turned up the heat to put down the Lakota, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Crow and others with a vengeance. How our country handled the native Americans is a travesty...we know this. We've broken every treaty. Forgive me if some information I've stated is inaccurate.
@Steven Colombo No silly I am not. I stated "forgive me if some information I've stated is inaccurate." I was dealing with small grandchildren the day I posted response, so in haste, erred. The Crow many times were used as scouts by federal troops to hunt down their enemy.The Lakota did not think we'll of them for that and other sellout reasons. We stayed at Hardin, Montana in a motel owned by Crow. My advice to young men is not be so hasty to brand someone a negative name.
@UCl_Oj2WAytjhS2Me7GdzAsQ and you guys literally started residential schools "in the name of god", and senselessly killed millions of Natives Americans. Your not worthy of using his name in this conversation, especially to enforce your racist ways. Go back to Europe you dumb fuck, how does that sound?
I totally agree with you...it's a travesty!
I remember hearing the story that after Custer was dead, the natives cut his ears open slightly so that in the next world he would be able to hear the words of those whom he had ignored in this world.
Yep. They also stripped him nude and shoved a stick up his pecker. Pretty gruesome.
They poked his eardrums through with an awl, so he could hear.
@@jimrb67 It seems that would only have made his hearing worse....
He was dead. Nothing could have further affected his hearing. It was, however, a belief the Indians held.
And then they lost
I often wish we had a way to go back and observed what really happened in history , so nobody can twist it to fit today's society and ideals
This story has always fascinated me from the time I first heard about it as a young grade school kid…
A fantastic book on this subject is, “Son of the Morning Star” by Evan S. Connell…
Skillfully written, it is impressive on the amount of information about Custer, his “last stand” & the way of life for all the native Americans that were involved…
Great read!
One of my ancestors died at Little Big Horn . He wasn’t in the actual battle , he was camping nearby and went over to complain about the noise !
You are an idiot.
@@jameskennedy6982 but I have a sense of humour , let me know where you are and I’ll help you look for yours !
Yikes, how was he related to you?
We are still here. Surviving while keeping silent about our identity. Some like my family are in Illinois. Still facing oppression in Crook County!
I also live in illinois, how are you in any way facing oppresion? You make it sound like we live in some distopian world where if you are native american you are rounded up and killed so you have to be silent about it.
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Really enjoyed the way this was done. It make more sense how it happened
Custer should've followed the original plan and waited for reinforcements. Vanity got the best of him. The Native Americans won the battle but still lost the war.
Best graphic description on the battle I have ever seen! Thank you!
They need to make this a movie...at least a new one! Gotta love history
I’ve been to the Little Bighorn once. Loved it. Haunted by the place. Hollowed ground.
Did they use shovels to "hollow" it?
@@dunruden9720 Yeh, and then put the soldiers bodies in it. 😃
I agree. Special energy there. Almost like the spirits of the participants have never left.
This is the best graphics I have ever seen of this battle. I am a soldier so I know how battles have their own life.
Vanity killed custer he thought was invincible and couldnt make a wrong discision .
Actually it was the betrayal of Reno and Benteen.
@@31terikennedy They should have waited for the reinforcements. I don't think Crazy Horse would have risked a preemptive attack. Besides, the aftermath of this defeat would be a rallying-cry from workers, business and ranchers in favor of a continuance and expansion off all-out war against the natives. In the end, the vison was correct...albeit incomplete.
@@fluff1353 To begin with the Army was there because the Sioux and Cheyenne were encroaching on Crow land. The Army wasn't trying to overwhelm and kill as many Indians as they could. The policy was to convince the Indians to return to the reservation. When you think LBH also think the Doolittle raid against Japan. It was psychologically to impress the Indians that they were not safe anywhere but the reservation. Nobody knows what Crazy Horse was up to. Custer was always the lone tip of the spear. He was at the Washita and he was at the LBH. Custer attacked from one side of the village and left the backdoor opened to give the Indians some place to go.(that's a page out Sun Tzu's the Art of War. Custer's objective was to neutralize Indian mobility by destroying and capturing Indian horses (put everyone afoot, less mischief that way). It was supposed to be a four prong assault with everyone going in simultaneously ( the same as the Washita) No scout to the left or Reno attacking alone, that was hearsay from Reno and Benteen.
@@31terikennedy Psychology wasn't going to work in that situation...not in that world. Not against tribes united with enemies against what they perceived as a bigger enemy. I doubt that the Lakota would have given a damn about what books Custer read. Fact is, they knew the area better, they were better organized, and Custer misread or was given misleading scout information other than the warning he received about waiting it out.
@@fluff1353 You're giving the Indians way to much credit for their ability for command and control. It doesn't matter if the Indians knew who Sun Tzu was but does matter that they fell victim to his strategy. Did they really know the area? The Sioux and Cheyenne were encroaching on Crow land. Custer, initially, wanted to wait before attacking but word got back to him that the Indians were seen to have found a lost Army pack and the critical element of surprise might have been compromised. As it turned it out it wasn't and the Indians were totally surprised. The LBH failed because of the treachery of two officers, Reno and Benteen. When Reno gave away the initiative by prematurely attacking, Custer immediately developed a defensive plan to concentrate by sending the same order, twice, to Benteen to come quick. Custer then staged a feint at the river to relieve the pressure on Reno. The Indians broke off from Reno and concentrated on Custer. Benteen chose to disobey his orders. Captain Weir tried to take his men to join Custer and made it as far as Weir's Point before Benteen came out and brought them back. Weir was the only officer to dispute what really happened and came up dead by the following December. (sound familiar?) To say the Indians were better organized than a cavalry regiment is patently absurd. The bigger the Indian force, the more unwieldy it became.
I've Never Know the Real Story... A Great Story... So many loses on both sides. Very Unfortunate that some of the Natives didn't heed Sitting Bulls warning. Thanks for Sharing
If there ever was a Gods' people, it is the Native Americans. So much respect for that land and the creatures.
Read about this battle in sixth grade. I was laughing and insulting Custer the whole time.
I was fortunate enough to visit this site back in April 2020. It was very sobering seeing all the scattered grave markers following how the troops dispersed when being attacked. Good video showing how the army an natives moved around. Thanks.
Becareful on what you ask for.... I believe he got it!
I remember in college that some commentaries believe this battle took less than 30 minutes, and other commentaries saying less than 15 minutes. But they all agree that it was a very quick battle
Excellent graphics showing development of battle for both sides
A decent although simplified presentation of the events leading up to and during the battle. One thing though: there is no verified photo of Crazy Horse in existence. He would not allow his picture to be taken. So that one screen at 3:14 is inaccurate for that reason.
Also, while the camp did break up to move due to the news of other soldiers coming, they were not outnumbered (@11:18). It was Gibbon's column that the warriors detected, which only had about 450 men. Benteen and Reno's force was still over 350-400, but was pretty beat up and surrounded at that point. Given the frequently cited low estimate of 1,500 warriors at the battle (high estimates stated 3,000, but that's unlikely), they clearly were not outnumbered. It was a well considered strategic withdrawal, breaking up into smaller and smaller bands that would be harder to track and follow. Terry's column would have added another 900+ to the U.S. forces, but it took a while for everyone to get there.
As far as I know, you are correct about Crazy Horse not being photographed.
I heard on another documentary on this that part of the reason they broke up was how hard it was to find food for so many.
As long as the grass grows and the rivers flow.....or until gold is found 😢
I'm a Native American and this one Native American history, iam sick of hearing about
But Custer got his arse kicked you should be proud
Custer’s thwarting of the Confederate cavalry envelopment of the Union center which was facing a free natal assault on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg may well have saved the day for the Union. One thing is certain, General Custer was courageous.
RIP
To the 268 US cavalrymen and scouts (six who were wounded later died of wounds),136 Native American warriors, and ten non-combatant Native Americans who were killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
I love learning about the Native American Religious beliefs and ceremonies before battle.
Still no mention of the 25 women shot before the attack!!! These documentaries never mention anything about that???
The best explained/illustrated video about Custer's Last Stand I have seen so far...
hope the historical facts of the events are correct.
They aren't. But it is fun to learn about things!
You always here about Custer, but people forget about Terry and the rest of 7th Calvary who escaped being killed at the Big Horn.
Terry and his troops were two day's ride away from the battle.
@@ToddSauve and yet they were spoiling for a fight when news broke of the annihilation of Custer’s company. Had they pursued the Indians they would have had to abandon their supply train to catch up, and that would mean they themselves would be caught without adequate supplies just to survive.
Thanks very much for the upload.
Very succinct and very interesting.
Enjoyed it immensely and now have a good knowledge of how the battle developed.
Kindest Regards
I love videos like this I watch them with my kids
Take their land, their food, their culture, their lives, and if they fought back, call them savages.
nowadays the US gov simply labelled them who fought back as terrorist.
Some while afterwards an Indian that fought in the battle was asked " How long was Custer's last stand" he replied "as long as it takes a hungry man to eat his breakfast "
I was in Rapid City in the early 90's.
My late husband and I were having dinner at a restaurant. As the sun set over the Black Hills I thought to myself. No wonder the Lakota fought so hard. It was the most beautiful sunset I ever saw. Truly God lives here.
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I'm British. I wanted to tell my eleven-year-old son how historical events can be twisted and portrayed for specific narratives. I showed him RUclips clips from "They Died with Their Boots On" and "Little Big Man".
Chalk and cheese.
Bully .
@@disgustedvet9528 Why?
@@raypurchase801 If I wanted to show my sons how history can be manipulated I would choose Rourke's Drift eh ?
@@disgustedvet9528 It's useful to compare the movie "Zulu" with the prequel, "Zulu Dawn". The prequel puts "Zulu" in its correct context.
Custer was toast😀
Interesting enough I wrote a paper on the battle of LBH over 40 years ago for a history project it took me months of studying going through archives and Indian testimony's , He a summary of what I found I hope its an interesting read and remember this is my opinion.
After Custer split his force and waved to Reno on the bluffs watching him attack the village he moved along the ridges until he could see lots of women and children milling about in the village (Custer was looking at the middle not the end of the village) He then split his force again leaving company's C/I/L to guard his flank while sending Company E to find the end of the village and taking company F to try and find a fording point of the river.
According to Pretty Shield (Lakota Women) the Soldiers approached the river and two warriors fired into them knocking the two leading men of their horses , At this the soldiers picked up their men put them back on their horses and retreated back up the hill , What I think happened here was Custer was mortally wounded to the chest and company F made it to last Stand Hill in the hope the Surgeon could save Custer its interesting to note Company F and HQ Company never left the hill we know this because their grave markers , This would indicate they stood with their commander to the end.
Meanwhile Company E was recalled and formed skirmish lines on lower Skirmish Hill just below Last Stand Hill but , In Capt Keogh's sector Company L had formed skirmish lines and Company C was given the task of driving away the Indians from the coulee which they did very briefly until they started to lose men from counter fire most notably from a hill leading up the coulee , Company C lost half their number retreating back towards company L who had to invert their skirmish line in order to cover C company survivors but by doing so they took flank fire and were routed on Calhoun Ridge.
As C/L Company's dashed to I Company still in reserve events were quickening I don't think Keogh expected the oncoming attack so quickly I believe he was hit quite early and grave markers indicate two groups of I Company bodies one surrounding Keogh and another further up the hill around 100 yards away probably the fleeing survivors trying to make it to last Stand Hill.
By now I believe Tom Custer had taken charge his brother lying dying , He could see fleeing soldiers trying to make their way up to Last Stand Hill some actually making it but their was no cover on the hill the soldiers were exposed so the order was given to shoot the horses and make barricades , At this point it was a matter of time , Company E may have been the last soldiers alive and some made a dash for the deep ravine although I believe none made it there contrary to accounts as no artefacts' have ever been found in the ravine and no shell casings.
I think some of last actions of the battle was Tom Custer shooting his brother knowing that the Indians don't scalp suicides and not wanting his brother to be taken alive , Tom himself fought bravely we have Indian accounts and soldier accounts of pools of blood around his body where he had shot with his repeating rifle many hostiles , Toms body was the most mutilated body on the battlefield he was well known by many Lakota and one Lakota had threatened to eat his heart.
Their you go my account of the true battle of Little Big Horn from the Custer point of view.
While your analysis is not unreasonable I don't believe Custer was killed or wounded at the Medicine Tail ford. The accounts of Custer's chest wound suggest that it would have been fatal, if not immediately then within minutes from blood loss. The sorting to the Medicine Tail ford seems more exploratory in nature. If Custer was leading an attack he likely would have taken more than one company. The village was reportedly deserted at the ford so there would have been no reason to enter with no hostages to capture. It's also not likely that Tom Custer took command while the 7th put up any serious resistance. Keogh was senior after Custer in that wing and Yates after him. If Custer had been killed or incapacitated at the ford it's more probable that Yates would have moved in reunite with Keogh and await Benteen's reinforcements. Instead, there's some archeological evidence that suggests E and F companies moved further north beyond Last Stand Hill looking for another ford or potential hostages and that sounds like the kind of aggressive approach Custer would take.
3,13 ..... Chrazy Horse was never photographed, so we don't know what he looked like.
Who is the native on the phpto to the left?
Good question. There is a drawing held by the Lakota that some of them say is Crazy Horse. There are a number of other inaccuracies in this video but I don't know where they got their sources.
It very like Gall.
You are correct, Estrid. We know from those who knew him that he was not particularly tall and that his hair was slightly wavy and more brown than black. (He was sometimes called Curly as a boy.) However, his father was Sioux; his mother was, I think, Northern Cheyenne.
He said something about the camera but I forgot. Something about a portal or devil?
One big victory for Native Americans, Praise to our ancestors.
Every native account I've read shows Custer and his main scout Mitch Boyer being shot as they crossed the river entering the Indian camp. Custer took the bullet to the chest and was dragged from the river by his men and up to last stand hill. Boyer was also shot in the river and killed by Indians right there. The entire battle took place over an immense area and over several days. What doomed last stand hill was a suicide charge of teenage Indian boys looking for glory who successfully ran off the trooper's horses. There was no escape now. Unlike pictured, Custer had short hair, fought in his shirt sleeves and a large straw hat pinned up on the right side. He was probably almost dead before the Indians overran the hill. About 40-50 troopers broke from the hill into the ravine running to the river for safety but never made it. Benteen and Reno were over a mile away during this fight. Custer had always thought they were on their way to reinforce his men. After the fight, the warrior's women arrived on the scene and cut the heads, arms and legs from the dead soldiers. They were so mutilated that the arriving troops from a ship on the river didn't recognize any but Custer as they left him alone. The ones escaping through the ravine that weren't killed outright were dragged into the camp, tied to trees, disemboweled and burned to death. Sitting Bull acknowledged the victory but also knew it was the end.
Bob, your account is excellent and better detailed than this video. While I admire the indians for their fighting ability and courage, the way they massacred the wounded and mutilated nearly all the bodies was uncalled for and appalling. When General Terry found the abandoned indian camp they found the decapitated heads of 3 troopers in an empty teepee, the indians had kept them as trophies. The video never explained why all Custer's command died to the last man (many if not a majority of the fatalities were wounded men who were massacred) or the desecrating the bodies by warriors, brutality like that on both sides needs to be called out for what it was-not glossed over. Or you end up portraying history unrealistically which historians should never do. I can't subscribe to this site until they present all the facts and not just those that fit their view on events.
Damn yeah I don’t wanna hear shit from the natives they where just as brutal
If the soldiers were mutilated so badly beyond recognition how did they know what names to put on the grave site
@@johnmandock56 It wasn't easy. Some by personal items still with them, some by tattoos and other blemishes, some by their chopped off head being used as trophies in the Indian village. They had a list of all personnel there and started accounting for them by process of elimination.
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This is great, not confusing ( to me anyway ) but just right with words and timing. Thanks!!!
A shameful time in our nations history. As a military veteran I will say that what our government did to the native Americans was nothing short of disgraceful. I love this country and what it stands for but many of the things that were done were carried out in the wrong way and with no respect to the native inhabitants of this land.
Thank you for serving..
They're not native. Like any other ethnic group they came from another part of the world.
Custer got exactly what he deserved. The government literally starved the natives by purposely killing off almost all the buffalo. A cowardly act.
the natives the real Americans!!!
They were immigrants just like the rest of us. There would not be an America without European settlers.
I'm just going through " The Journey of the Crazy Horse " while " Burry My Heart at Wounded Knee " and " Empire of the Summer Moon " await me. I've been fascinated by Natives since I was a small boy and used to play with small, plastic toys of Natives and Cowboys. Much love and respect from Serbia to the Native community - the true Americans.
Lived in San Juan Island WA where Custer was comander of Garrision during the Pig War. It was a boundary dispute with 1day of shooting with the only casualty being a pig.
True, look it up.