@@sammienochez8497 - Want to talk about brutal people.... The Commanche were some of the most inhumane, brutal people alive. Most other tribes hated them and wanted them wiped off the face of the earth. Eventually, Europeans came and pretty much obliged them. Can't be the school yard bully anymore when your new enemy is 3000 years ahead of you in technology.
@Sammie Nochez - No you don't. My people had enough heart to sail and conquer the world. Your people were too busy massacring and torturing other tribes to advance much. Do you know your own history? You do know EVERYONE hated the Commanche, right? Like, it wasn't hard at all to find other Native American allies to fight you, you were so sick to defeated people, you were basically viewed as a scourge on humanity.
The conflicts in this nations past are heartbreaking. However, the fact that both sides can mourn their dead and tell their history is different from other nations. This country is far from perfect, but we must always work to make it better.
Sitting bull and crazy horse spirit tells me , that over 1 million natives came to fight the soldiers and destroyed them and many others that were not spoken about . Pride hid the truth , Custer was surrounded by thousands and thousands of natives and wet himself .
Even this late in western expansionism the tribes were a force. They should have been recognized as a sustainable and valued U.S. military asset and strategy.
@@petersonlafollette3521 no we weren't, that was an exaggeration. There were no female chiefs, our gender roles didn't allow it. We respected our women a lot more than most other civilizations though.
"A few years before, the US government had discovered gold in the nearby Black Hills, and wanted the tribes to sell their land. When they refused the US government was determined to round them up and move them to the great Sioux reservation..." Euphemism for 'steal'.
The land belongs to whoever can hold it . Thats a direct quote from Sitting Bull to the chief of the Crow Indians , shortly after winning the rights to the Blac hills from the Crow.
@@rexmundi7811 the Cheyenne, Crow, Nes Perce and Blackfoot all had "claim" to the hills, but no one owned them until Eurooeans stole them. They didn't "own" land that was.considered a living thing.
@@garydarland5259 If nobody owned the land as you say then it was not stealing to take possession of it. Of course the Lakota thought of Black Hills as their own territory. They murdered or forcefully drove the previous Native occupants out of this unowned land as you call it. As the Crows moved westward the Lakota continued to harass them. That is why Crow scouts eagerly worked with Custer. The Lakota camp on the Little Bighorn was on Crow territory.
What a great place to visit. I was very surprised to see how large is a battlefield was. One of the cool things about it is many of the goalies and the trees and everything is still in place from that historic battle. Another thing that struck me was how little people were back then. I realized this first when we visited Lord Nelson’s shipyard in the Caribbean. The uniforms, the shoes, everything was a little. A six footer would’ve probably been a giant back at that time. The uniforms on display at the Custer battlefield also and show people were little back then.
How could this possibly be peaceful . Another reminder of how our forefathers without conscience murdered the Native American's and stole their lands . A shamefully history we have . Custer and his soldiers got what they deserved .
Anthony L. Jumpy Jones Thats pretty hypocritical if you continue to live in the USA, don’t you think? Id think you’d want to get out of this horrible place.
@@jumpyonthehill curious...how do you respond to the fact that other Indian tribes stole the land from other tribes...is there a difference? All land has been stolen at one point or another right? The US did offer to pay first which I cant say other tribes would do.
@Troy Hendrickson None of us here today were alive back then. Who's left to hold accountable? All we can do is live with and try to improve the world we inherited.
Shame how it happened but it was gunna happen regardless. The natives were no match for the industrial machine that backed the US and most were probably unaware of its existence. Any “civilized” peoples who wanted to come in in and take them over could have.
I would have thought that a respected chanel like the Smithsonian would have done a better job telling the story of that fateful day instead of producing such a short full of holes story
It is hard to explain the fascination with a battle that seems so small compared to other conflicts. It is also hard to explain why so many still become rabid partisans over events and participants who have been long dead for some time. It reminds me of something I heard about those that love Harley Davidsons: if you have to ask, you will never understand. It is surprising that there could still be so much vitriol over a man whose big moment was a failure, yet there are those that claim they know just what Custer was thinking and how this God Of War was betrayed by lesser men. My version is somewhat simpler and it is based on something Gall said after the battle: "My heart was bad." Scouts with Reno, while attempting to raid the pony herds, fired shots indiscriminately into the village, killing two of Gall's wives and three of his children. He was enraged and wanted revenge. Writer Evan S. Connel said that Gall must have been like a wolf among sheep that day, and many were angered that the waiscus would attack them after they had repulsed General Crook at the Rosebud. Others were spurred on by relatives to protect the dependants and win some glory. But I think Captain Benteen said it best during an interview around the Reno Inquiry: “There were a great deal too many Indians.… We were at their hearths and homes; they had gotten the bulge on Reno; their medicine was working well, and they were fighting for all the good God gives anyone to fight for.” A great day for the Plains Indians that also led to a speedier downfall. A bad day for the 7th Calvary that would win them immortality for losing a battle.
That's true, but before he died with a bullet wound in the chest, I believe his brother tom shot him in the head and he was not the last man standing he had been shot earlier in the battle and I think the rest of the troops became very confused about what was going to happen. Idiot's but got what was coming to them
Many, many people blame Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn on his "ego". I find this amusing, especially since none of these individuals can give a real, bonafide example of how his ego caused him to lose that battle.
@@josephcavaliere9772 I believe Buffalo calf road woman killed him, as told by the Cheyenne, who broke their silence on the matter 100 years after the battle...listen to what they say on how custer was wounded early on in the battle, and he was knocked off his horse with a cudgel (from her)
@@samtait3128 That's it? That's all you got? "He rushed in to try use the women and shields again". Can you elaborate on that, or are you too ignorant to do so?
Why ? He fought with distinction in the civil war and became the youngest Brigadier General in History . He freed millions of slaves and risked his own life countless times . Whats your big accomplishment ? Growing long hair?
Growing up as a kid back in the late 60s early 70s we would go back to Missouri on vacation every year to visit family from the West coast and on our way back we would always stop at the Little bighorn and you could walk right out to the battlefield and they had little markers where they found Colonel Custer and the horse and all the other people that died that dayI don't think you can do that anymore but as a child I remember standing right where Colonel Custer died.
In a nut shell, a very good account of the jist of what took place. In depth details are debatable to this day, but many good books by authorities and historians attempt to present the facts. It's an awesome place to visit and spend several hours. Ask questions of the tour guides, that's what they are there for. Marvel at the open skies and landscape. Relax in the tranquility and the silence. If you go on a pleasant day and the weather is good, it will be a cherished memory for years. There are amenities in the reservation town of Crow Agency nearby. Enjoy your visit. Cheers,. Bob in Montana
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Quite a few comments here suggest the account of what actually happened to Custer's men is inaccurate; the narrator even states that what happened is shrouded in question marks. Many years ago I read a book titled, "Save the Last Bullet For Yourself," in which a retired history professor who had written two books of a trilogy on Custer went to live among the Sioux to learn what happened so that he could finish his ambitious biography of Custer. Because this was in the early years of the 20th Century, many of the native Americans who participated in the battle were still alive. The professor learned the language and over several years pieced together what did occur, and his book (mentioned above) recapitulated what he learned. Briefly, he found that Custer's men were so overcome by what was happening in the battle that the shout went up, "Save the last bullet for yourself." Poorly trained soldiers (leftover soldiers from the Civil War) drenched with the false notions that the native Americans would torture them if captured, they took "the easy way out." The professor's details are compelling, so much so that I recall them to this day but do not want to cover what the book does far better. Sitting Bull's "sun dance" had not only predicted a victory for them but also that the white man's bullets would not harm the natives (a belief that helps explain what happened in later encounters). That's why there was so much shooting going on (soldiers committing suicide) but few native Americans hit. The idea that "about 100 Indians died" is false, the figure being more like 30. Faced with such a dismal story, and aware that left in the open June sun for days the bodies would not prove mass suicide, and with the nation celebrating its 100th anniversary of its Revolution (July 4, 1776), the Custer episode has been twisted into a more palatable formula. Read the book.
I could see that possibly being true for some, as it was a known habit with some tribes to torture their captives, but any suicides probably would've happened near the end, when their numbers were dwindling. Hard to know for sure though of course.
The narrator is wrong. The soldier's bones were interred around the base of the monument itself, not in the national cemetery. The headstones mark the place they fell and were originally buried I would expect better from Smithsonian.
+FetchTheSled Wasnt it a disgraceful video and from the Smithsonian who teach out history? And the statement General Terry started with 879men is absolute garbage, Thst was how many men Custer had when he was sent of by Terry. Also the statement hundreds of Indians when it was thousands. Etc etc the whole thing is full of totally inaccurate information. Shame on the Smithsonian.
The stones were placed 14 yrs. after the battle and are not accurate. The monument sits on a mass grave were most were buried..The grass was taller in 1876 as well. Its a creepy place.
According to our legends, which don’t seem to count when ppl are researching these documentaries, White Bull killed Custer and it wasn’t on last stand Hill. It was in a stream lol
@@thetatv1339 haha , yeah if he was killed at the River or mortally wounded as all his wounds were Keogh would've been with Cooke Custers adjutant Garryowen
I've visited this site a few times since the 1980s. It was initially a monument to Custer and his troops. Fortunately the indigenous people who actually own the land turned it into what it should have been all along--a tribute to the people who defended their land, not the white soldiers who believed in manifest destiny.
It was and still is Crow land. The Lakota and Cheyenne were trespassing. The Crow were long time enemies. In fact the Crow had asked the U.S. to stop the Lakota from harassing them on their own land.
@@rexmundi7811 The Sioux and the Cheyenne were the enemies of several other tribes on the Plains. One example is Massacre Canyon in Southwest Nebraska where Sioux mounted warriors attacked a band of Pawnee men, women, and children.
"Little is known of what happened next..."??? A LOT is known of what happened. The Native Tribes have been telling their side of the story for a hundred and forty-two years now of what happened at the battle. The problem was the white historians didn't want to include it in their versions of history. They wanted Custer to be forever viewed as a hero, even in the films and TV shows of the 20th century. There's plenty of material to research as to what happened at the battle from all of the Native tribes that participated in it. All of the Tribes have their stories of eyewitness accounts as to what happened. I can't believe a video by the Smithsonian would choose to ignore these details and hide it from the public. Shame on you. And it wasn't just a "crushing" defeat in US military history; it was also a victory of 'FREEDOM' for the Native Tribes against its Oppressors.
Well said! 👏🏼 I'd even go as far as to say how much it blows my mind that so many still vote and support the same broken, crooked, greedy government system. That's why history repeats itself. The government has always used people as pawns, and put individual greed over the life of another. One good thing about the internet is it gives somewhat of a platform for the truth to be shared across the nation and globally. Like you said, there's plenty of information available showing in detail how the system has always been, and still is corrupt and bias. Channels like this, and other mainstream outlets are all still controlling the information they share. One thing all these egoic, sociopathic, broken humans that make up the system have forgotten, is that we are not the most powerful thing in existence, and all this chaos that's happening in the world is a result of living a detached life, and abusing our earth and fellow humans. Those who are aware, compassionate and lead with love, just like the indigenous people did/ do, in harmony, will survive. Those who cling to greed, lies, and pride will fall. I think in the end nature and the enlightened will "win"
The biggest lie told by the government is that the united states has never lost a war they lost the war against all natives they wanted us all dead and couldnt get anywhere with red cloud sitting bull and crazy horse they lost the most men against the lakota
Thousands of braves..fierce warrior fellas..not stoked to have their camp disturbed by jerks. Said to have been lodges stretching for several miles. Many tribes united camping together.
I've heard that Chief Crazy Horse really was crazy. I heard that he would be on his horse with the rest of the Indian warriors, overlooking an army of soldiers, and then say something like, "You all stay here, and watch me take care of this myself", and then he would go into war mode and ride his horse right into the thick of it.
I believe George Armstrong Custer was a general of the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry on the day my people wiped him out; If I'm not mistaken, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General at the age of 23 before the Battle of Gettysburg.
It appears there is still anger and untruths in the air. Did we not learn from this or any war. Death doesn't conquer the enemy, as the comments below prove. Peace to you all, please.
a correction to the Smithsonian account 0:40 WRONG US government signed right of back hills over to the tribes, the US government found gold in them there hills and then changed thee agreement... and so on.... repeated many times.... remember that.
He who makes a treaty can break a treaty , so say the Us supreme court when the Sioux tried to reclaim the Blac hills 40 yearts ago . The sioux got 300 million in compensation though.
This is quite indelicate as it's narrated to sound like a great gesture: 'move them to the great Sioux reservation' - as if it was a golden land, really the highest of the high, made especially lovely for them with care and tenderness.
@Donald Allen you sound like you need a lesson in life. A history lesson going back to the very beginning of the human race would be a good start. You will find whatever you seek, wherever you look. No one race, color or creed is without fault.
@DonaldAllen...I fail to see your reasoning here...you admit all races, colors, nations have taken land from others, taken slaves, killed innocents. But you claim white Europeans are the worst because they did it best??? Gimme a break man....
There seems to be posters here with serious knowledge deficiencies. Let me start about the Gatlin gun controversy. There was no controversy because general Terry had two guns in total which he didn't want to bring in the first place because of chronic problems with jamming ,parts falling off and very cumbersome.The terrain Custer had to travel over at "upmost speed" would have been a total disaster for all the companies that rode under Custer.Custer was under strict instructions to carry out his orders or be court marchelled.The biggest mistake Custer made was to bring all his trusted men with him and his five companies.
''...carry out his orders or be court *marchelled*'' ? No such word. 'Marchelle' is a French 'baby name' of the female gender. . It should have read: '' ...carry out his orders or face court(s) martial. And the correct spelling for the rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm is *Gatling* - so named after its inventor - R J GatlinG
It is my honest belief that Custer sent Reno in alone to draw the Lakota andCheyenne warriors away from the fleeing women and children leaving them open to attack from his own troops. to capture the non-combatants as he did at the Washita may well have given him a victory. the fact that Reno and his command would pay the price probably didnt come into it. too bad Crazy Horse was one step ahead of him. the result was the right one.
HOU . If Reno would of kept his troops in the trees and defended it down to last man it would of kept most of the warriors at bay for the time being . If long hair would of pushed hard into the village the out come would of been different !! BUT long hair smoked with the arrow keeper down south and made promise not to make war on my cheyenne people if he did he would be wiped out and he did .. He was blind to the medicine to the promise he made ..that day my fore fathers fought on that day June 25 1876 .. Whitehawk, bobtail horse, tallwhiteman, hollowwood,
+paul gregory That is exactly the plan he used. He lied to Reno saying he would support him . When Reno was under a major attack and was retreating and trapped in the trees and trying to get back across the river, Custer sat on a hill watching it all seeing Reno was being wiped out by virtually a thousand Indians. Custer left Reno and rode of to the other end of the Village to capture the women and kids and elderly knowing full well he was leaving Reno to his death. Custer was happy to sacrifice Reno and his men. Trouble was he couldn't Ford the river and was driven back by a small group of Indians. When they main group attacking Reno heard and realized they were under attack from the other end they all headed back . By then Reno was on Reno hill fighting a rear guard and surrounded, and had 50 injured troops with half hiscommand dead or wounded. When Benteen arrived, Reno the superior officer told Benteen to stay with him and protect the wounded etc . Custer made the fatal error of dividing his forces, underestimating the size of the enemy even when the scouts had warned him, of taking exhausted men and horses into battle, and of not knowing the terrain. Stupid deadly error. Custer was banking 100% that he could capture the women and children and himself being safe using them. He didnt care what happened to Reno or Benteen. He wanted glory.
+Paul Noble Finally ! Your response is right on sir. I've studied this battle for many years & have visited the site 6 times, (probably next year again) If you want to read some good material try these: "the warrior who killed custer" by james h. howard or anything by the author: Stanley Vestal or books by Dr. Herman J. Viola These authors have done much research, some have talked to descendants of the battle on the indian side, and Vestal interviewed White Bull, a Miniconjou, and lived until 1947. White Bull was 26 yrs. old at time of battle and related the hand to hand fight with Custer before he killed him. All of these references are spell binding to history loving people and I personally eat this stuff up.
www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/white_cow_bull_little_big_horn.html Zeke Placer I believe this version. I visited the site 2 years back and was stunned. To actually see it and the whole area was one of the best experiences of my life and made me study more and more what happened. I will be returning this year armed with far more knowledge and am so looking forward to being able to trace it all and see exactly what went on. I have written other bits on here but to be honest and not rude or arrogant I really have given up trying to explain to most what in actuality probably happened. I believe fully that White Cow Bull killed Custer at the Ford and that if you take this as what happened it explains fully what happened after as Custer was not in command and no one knew what to do. The Indians and other scouts have confirmed also that after the attempted crossing of the ford the troops retreated to what is now cemetery ridge and there they waited 20 minutes doing nothing. It was always a mystery to why they did this but if you take that Custer had been shot in the left chest and the men dragged him from the river and retreated, it would have been to the nearest high point which is the ridge, then it all makes sense. They would have been assessing Custer for 15 20 minutes. The surgeon was with Custer as well as another doctor so they were tending to him for sure. realizing he was mortally wounded, probably unconscious or at best drifting in and out of consciousness, loss of blood and a probably fatal chest wound they started to retreat under fire further back up, which is onto Last Stand Hill. Custer would have been laid out at the top and surrounded by horses as breast plates exactly how it was described by the 1st on the scene. They recorded Tom Custer and George, Cooke and 7 others , total about 10 men, were found at the top of the hill or knoll as they called it where the monument now stands. They were surrounded by about 10 dead horses shot to make breast work. Custer had a small caliber bullet hole in his head. I believe Custer was laid there by his brothers and when the scene become hopeless, Tom shot his brother so as he would not be captured. I fully believe the reason there was no charging retreat to Reno was that no one was in command and none of the officers knew what to to and were in total shock over Custer being shot.
What a respectful race the traditional land owners were, even still today they are not bitter about their past they acknowledge the history of their people and don’t blame the modern world... I have the utmost respect for them
@@claytonlowry1280 the problem though is gattling guns are probably too heavy that it will need at least two men to push it along, but gattling guns would have definitely allowed Custer to gain the upper hand
@@jooksin6244 My great uncle A-walled because he saw the injustice. He was coming out of a bar just as Custard was riding by w/his F troop. Saying to my great Uncle that if he didn't join them Custard would shoot him on the spot. If he gotten over the ridge he'd been the only survivor.
The Pawnee too were there fighting Custer, if you want to know what actually happen next then you go to the Lakota elders and they will tell you. It was Custer's brother who finish General Custer off, he was shot by a Lakota worrier, but his brother seeing that he was gravely injured, knowing they were going to be wiped out either shot Custer on his brothers orders, or his own volition so he wouldn't be alive when the Nations worriers came for their scalps. Because the Lakota realized that Custer basically committed suicide they left his body and uniform intact, suicide is look down on as a cowardly act by the people of the Nations.
That's interesting . But most of the storys state Rain shot custer .I really doubt custer committed suicide ,however there are accounts that many did shoot themselves .I personally do not know why custer did not just go down with a flag of truce brought them back to the res.Most of the Lakota Sioux were in no mood to talk though .
@@ElectronFieldPulse Do a little reading of history there Cow-Poke, both civilians and military use to scalp Native Americans for bounty money. Turn about is fair play, scalp and mutilate men, woman and children, then you shouldn't be surprised when it comes right back at you.
Even if it meant me never being born on this soil,I wish the Lakota,Cheyenne had won more battles against the real savages.These people were done wrong time and time again.
My great-grandmother was born in 1858 I was born in 1958 she died at the age of 114 and 1972 I was 14 years old , She told my brothers and sisters that she can remember when custer met his end she said that Indians would never have shot him in the temple that's where he was actually shot the temple and in the chest she said that Indians would not have done that because they would prefer that he suffer being shot with arrows not bullets the indians knew him as yellow hair or long hair while she was telling this story they had the local newspaper there, she was in the paper I saw that picture but they never recounted that story they happened to leave that story out. She believe Custer took his own life which means that in reality he was what he was a coward.
@@josephdelatorre3751 Tell that to the millions of black folks he freed by his heroic acts in the civil war . Whats your biggest achievement in life ? Growing long hair?
Custer was an ar9ogant guy with superiority complex and utter disrespect for the Natives. His defeat was a fitting payback for his raid in Washita where he slaughtered peaceful Cheyenne waiting as instructed for the decision from Washington.
So very accurate. 'Battle of The Washita' from Wikipedia: According to a modern account by the United States Army Center of Military History, the 7th Cavalry had 21 officers and men killed and 13 wounded at the Washita. They estimated the Indians had perhaps 50 killed and as many wounded. Twenty of the soldiers killed were part of a small detachment led by Major Joel Elliott, who was among the dead. Elliott had separated from the three companies he led, apparently without Custer's approval. Yelling "Here's for a brevet or a coffin!" Elliott and his small band pursued a group of fleeing Cheyenne. Elliott's contingent ran into a mixed party of Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho warriors who were rushing from villages up the river to aid Black Kettle's encampment. The warriors overwhelmed the small troop in a single charge. Custer's abrupt withdrawal without determining the fate of Elliott and the missing troopers darkened Custer's reputation among his peers. There was deep resentment within the 7th Cavalry that never healed. In particular, Frederick Benteen, Eliott's friend and H Company captain, never forgave Custer for "abandoning" Elliott and his troopers. Eight years later, when Benteen failed to race to Custer's aid at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, his actions were closely examined in light of his long-standing anger toward Custer for the events at the Washita River.
Custer probably thought that he can gain the upper hand against numerically superior opponents.. pretty sure he may have taken inspiration from other military leaders who are able to win against numerically superior opponents (ie Julius Caesar, Leonidas or Alexander the great) yet he did not do further research..
“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?” - Sitting Bull
I told you wait. My existence is a scar on America's shin. A failure if you will. Someone important to me said conscious cohesive thought with disagreement and knowledge is what's needed now. As of now we can't fight. We're outnumbered and they have the tactical advantage. One must out think them. With people in charge like joe and aoc. I'm thinking out thinking would be easier anyway. But as of now, just wait.
@@jonanderson4474 dont wait for the government to something. Become the government. Educate yourselves to their ways, run for Office, embed yourselves in their systems and beat them at their own game. That's how winning is done! We have a man up here in Manitoba whose doing exactly that by the name of Wab Kinew. I believe that after our next Provincial Election he'll be the next Premier of Manitoba. Good luck, friend.
@@jonanderson4474 - You guys will never retake your lands, but you can be successful in America. You need to work hard and actually try, but it is possible. Sitting on a reservation and hoping prosperity comes to you won't work...
For those of us wishing to know the truth, please read Custer's last declaration he wrote before going into battle that was read before Congress. There are so many discrepancies in this video why did they bother to make it?
@TroyHendrickson..Pretty sure a woman born over 50 years after the event in question is gonna be just as loose with factual info on the matter as the video shown above...
You mean like the Lakota stole the land and Black Hills from the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and others as they moved from MN after being forced out by the Chippewa and others. Got it. Because they didn't take the land peacefully. They were only in the Black Hills region about 120 years because the settlers showed up there after pushing out tribes that had been there thousands of years. They have the shortest title reign of most tribes in the region for the Black Hills and Great Plains. The Natives didn't claim anything either and didn't sign any peaceful papers with other tribes. They stole everything too. But that's a sensitive subject to talk about it seems because that's a part of history some want to ignore. The Lakota were living on land they stole, that ultimately was then stolen from them.
@@whitetigergrowl It seems you like to comment this on everything. Yes, you are correct. However there is a reason it isn't talked about as much, and it's a reason that's more respectable than you might think. The land belonged to the first nations, before Europeans came along, therefore- however cruel they wanted to treat each other, it was more understandable. In a sense, it was their land. They didn't venture across the sea for more land, they weren't overrun by complete greed and a lust for power. They claimed what was close to them, because it belonged to them all. I am not apart of the woke crowd. I dislike them, actually. But to say "what white people did is completely okay because they did it to each other on a smaller scale" is wrong. But never judge a man by the actions of his ancestors, something I see all too often today.
"Where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Defeated Colonel Custer" I think you"ll find if anyone does some indepth reading and research on Custer and the Little Big Horn you"ll soon come to the conclusion that it was Maj Reno and Capt Benteen who defeated George Armstrong Custer: Major-General of Volunteers; Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant-Colonel, Seventh U.S. Cavalry at LBH
Custer served with distinction in the civil war . Because of his bravery he allowed the USA to liberate a billion people from tyranny in the 20th century . Whereas you are a waste of air.
Sadly the largest genocide of indigenous people in modern history, God bless the native Indian tribes for their wisdom, humility, and understanding of nature long may they thrive. It is us who are the poorer persons with our souls of material emptiness on the road to self-destruction.
We remembered it as the American civilians intruders involvement that started the Buffalo County war! The only Dakota sioux indian reservation in south Dakota would actually fought a heroic victories war to save their entire northern reservation lands along the beautiful Missouri River. Also there's a very sad forgotten tragedy and the last forgotten true warriors victory song! From may through August of 1931 the continued harassment by the local towns people and the ranchers in the area of the north! During the early days of the dust bowl area of the 1930s on the crow creek sioux Indian reservation of SD northwest of half a mile the town of stephan. A large encampment over sixty to eighty hunkpati Dakota sioux people were living on Cheney rush, a hilly prairie land country along the beautiful Missouri River. When a large party of over hundred American civilians arrived there with guns and rifles. They wanted to take away the hunkpati Dakota sioux indians entire northern part of the reservation Buffalo hunting grounds and their fertile farm lands along the beautiful Missouri River. After a failed negotiations with the encampment. An altercation of violence that really happened there! Both sides started a full bloody massacre fight! The American civilians had less fewer casualties over twenty had died plus many were wounded during the fierce fighting! The entire Dakota sioux Indian encampment were all killed there! The American civilians buried the dead Dakota sioux bodies north on top of a rolling small hill, the secret mass grave site. Only tragedy someone tried to cover up the evidence that it never happened there! The Dakota sioux Indian elders were young children at the time saw an witness the tragedy unfolded there will hiding a safe distance away! Many years later they told the story well crying and wipt of their people were brutal torture to death at the Cheney rush massacre, the second sand creek massacre! Some of the Dakota sioux people who died there were descents of bullghost the Dakota sioux Indian war leader later becoming the spiritual advisor of the ghost dance uprising of 1890 he inspired many Lakota sioux people to the ghost dance celebration in standing rock SD. Bullghost has many relatives from standing rock to crow creek SD. His buried north of the reservation the big bend committee. The children want an told everyone on the reservation of the tragic very sad forgotten tragedy that happened there! The next day a larger party of over three hundred Dakota sioux warriors we're coming ready to fight against the American civilians! Iron Nation's kul wicasa oyate, the Lakota sioux warriors may have assisted in the fighting to! After a running battle was fought there! Probably more Americans civilians were killed there! The rest of the American civilians had fled back to thier ranches and towns never wanting to take back the hunkpati Dakota sioux people's traditional reservation Buffalo hunting grounds and their rich fertile farm lands along the beautiful Missouri River. Crow creek sioux Indian reservation of SD is only Dakota sioux indian reservation still has its own tribal traditional boundaries Lands east of the beautiful Missouri River. The last forgotten tragedy of the 20th century and the last forgotten Dakota sioux Indian war of the spring and summer time of 1931. The people of the crow creek still remember the sad tragic day and the joyful happy day of our brave Dakota and Lakota sioux warriors! The last forgotten Dakota sioux indian victory many decades after the little bighorn battle field! The De Grey lake resort is two or three miles north of the Cheney rush massacre site! The De Grey lake resort is were the dances with wolves movie Civil War battle scene was made along the beautiful Missouri River.
Sitting Bull did not "defeat" Custer. He was a spiritual leader and healer at this time of his life. He had visions that may have influenced his people, but was not in the physical part of the battle whatsoever.
Sitting Bull's Nephew "White Bull" Killed Custer in a hand to hand Combat. Custer last act before death was to throw his pistol at the Brave but it was picked up and shot him with it twice once to the temple and once to the left side of his heart.
how can anyone with a sane mind call it us land. I am white but I readily concede that what was done to the native peoples is one of the blackest pages in the creation of all things.
Then if you knew history, you would know what the Sioux did to the other tribes in the Great Plains and Black Hills regions, they were also the oppressors and conquerors. They did nothing noble about what they did to those tribes to steal their land and claim it as their own, then to hide under spiritualism for about 120 yrs before the arrival of the settlers to that area. They set upon their fellow man for many of the same reasons the settlers did and for no less a noble a reason.
Anything' Smithsonian' has the moral backbone of a jellyfish. The Truth, any truth, is nothing but some gnostic mystery of perspective. There is a reason keoghs ' agnus dei' gold necklace was never looted off his mutilated corpse. History and all classical liberal arts are a victim today. Things arent what they are, it's what you make them to be, including history.
A great read on this subject matter is Evan S Connell’s book, “Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn”… Probably ‘the’ best, meticulously researched book on the matter… hugely impressive…
There is a Native American monument at Little Bighorn. It’s a metal sculpture showing warriors riding off to battle, with their women handing them their shields. If you sit at the right angle and look at it, it looks like their ghosts are riding on the hills. They show it here briefly. It is one of the coolest monuments I’ve ever seen.
Imagine you and your family living on THE land for as far back as you remember living and calling it home then one day a bunch of people you have never seen come and demand that you give up everyone you had built and give up your home because we want to live here and if you don't we will kill you and take it. You would fight and if needed die in the process if need be. I never gave much thought to this until I grew up and figure out what really went down. Wow were really the savages. I don't know just something I've been thinking about. Everyone else should too.
That's weird. The Lakota did the same exact thing to the Pawnee, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Crow, etc as they were forced out of MN by the Chippewa, which is their native home. Not the Black Hills region. They were only in that area about 120 years before the arrival of the settlers. They slaughtered the other tribes and forced them off the land they had for thousands of years then hid behind, and still seem to, spiritualism to justify their own theft of land. Then gave a spiritual history with the Black Hills that they had no prior history with. We conquered them like they conquered the other tribes for no less noble of cause. They stole land, the settlers stole it from the stealers. Weird how it's ok if it's the same skin color. It's justified then. But if you are a different skin color suddenly it's not justified.
@@theodoremartin6153 yes the land belongs to those who can hold it I'm polish and stuck between Russia in Germany and you don't hear us crying haha you can't judge people from other Generations in today's crazy world of everyone gets a trophy garryowen
@Lats Niebling history means nothing to these snowflakes sadly that is what they teach them in school 2 minutes on a complex subject and they know everything ,very sad garryowen
I miss all Native American. I would like to see all of them still have a better Life. This is my parent and family and a beautiful culture must to keep carefully as hall fame
What isn’t said here is that the white soldiers bodies were stripped and severely desecrated by the Indians. This dishonorable treatment of the corpses was considered by some leaders of their tribe as contributing to their ultimate loss as a people later in the century. Essentially it only served to exemplify their consideration as savages by the rest of the public and erode growing public sympathy. Sadly Custer himself was somewhat sympathetic to their grievances and mainly wanted to make a name for himself in the military by being able to resettle them without violence and only using it as a show of force….up until he was killed.
Didn’t technically one survive from Custer’s group? Granted, he wasn’t in the last stand battle, but the messenger he sent back before they charged was the only one from his group that lived.
When I was a kid in 1967 I met crazy horse nephew he was 100 and something then he said that his dad and crazy horse road up the hill where Custer and his officer's where and they where already dead they had committed suicide. what was strange when i was about 40 years old i went to the Buffalo bill museum there was a painting of custer on his horse shooting himself in the head and the painting was about 100 years old when i saw this i remember what that old Indian chief and thought ma bee he was telling the truth,,
+Kekona Baron I beleive Custer shot himself as well. He had a chest would and a wound in his temple. I hardly think Indians attacking and then just shooting a man in the temple. No I think he saw what was happening and like many of his men, shot himself. The outcome of him being captured would have been in his mind.
+Kekona Baron Wrong ! ! White Bull, a Miniconjou, was the one who killed Custer, and he had two witnesses that came on the scene during that hand to hand fight. They were: Crow Boy & Bear LIce. After the battle, White Bull did not know he had indeed killed Custer until another Dakota named Bad Soup told him he knew that was "Long Hair" because he had seen him at Fort Abraham Lincoln at various times.
Zeke Placer NO your wrong. There was never any hand to hand with Custer. Custer had a chest wound left side which Doctors at the battlefield said was a near fatal wound and would have immobilized Custer totally when received. . He died from a small caliber bullet in the forehead believed to be by his brother Tom who had the same caliber hand gun. The Indian was not White bull but WHITE COW BULL in fact Joseph White Cow Bull, an Oglala Lakota. White Cow Bull was interviewed in 1938 and gave this account. All of this story over the years beginning with the battle and his account was and had been verified. My rifle was a repeater, so I kept firing at the Crows until these Sioux were safely on our side of the river. They had no guns, just lances and bows and arrows. But they got off their ponies and joined us behind the ridge. Just then I saw a Shahiyela named White Shield, armed with bow and arrows, come riding downriver. He was alone, but we were glad to have another fighting man with us. That made ten of us to defend the ford. I looked across the ford and saw that the soldiers had stopped at the edge of the river. [Note: this agrees with Peter Thompson, who said Custer briefly halted his men at the ford while he rode upriver alone about 1,000 feet, either to scout a better place to cross or to rape the Sioux squaw Curley had waiting there.] 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 horse, a sorrel with a blazed face and four white stockings. [Note: Although there were several officers in buckskin that day, Custer was the only one on a sorel horse with four white socks. The one detail that doesn't agree with Peter Thompson's account is that Thompson said Custer had taken his jacket off.] On one side of him was a soldier carrying a flag and riding a gray horse, and on the other was a small man on a dark horse. This small man didn't look much like a white man to me, so I gave the man in the buckskin jacket my attention. [Note: According to Pretty Shield, the "small dark man" was Mitch Bouyer, head of scouts.] He was looking straight at us across the river. Bobtail Horse told us all to stay hidden so this man couldn't see how few of us there really were.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 first, and I saw a soldier on a gray horse (not the flag carrier) fall out of his saddle into the water. The other soldiers were shooting at us now. The man who seemed to be the soldier 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. [Note: Seventh Cavalry scout Curley described seeing the same incident, and Pretty Shield confirmed that Custer was shot out of the saddle at the very outset of the Custer fight. See Who Killed Custer - The Eye-witness Answer for more info.] Shooting that man stopped the soldiers from charging on. They all reined up their horses and gathered around where he had fallen. I fired again, aiming this time at the soldier with the flag. I saw him go down as another soldier grabbed the flag out of his hands. By this time the air was getting thick with gunsmoke and it was hard to see just what happened. The soldiers were firing again and again, so we were kept busy dodging bullets that kicked up dust all around. When it cleared a little, I saw the soldiers do a strange thing. Some of them got off their horses in the ford and seemed to be dragging something out of the water, while other soldiers still on horseback kept shooting at us.Suddenly we heard war cries behind us. I looked back and saw hundreds of Lakotas [Sioux) and Shahiyela warriors charging toward us. They must have driven away those other soldiers who had attacked the Hunkpapa camp circle and now were racing to help us drive off these attackers. The soldiers must have seen them too, for they fell back to the far bank of the river, and those still on horseback got off to fight on foot. As warriors rode up to join us at the ridge a big cry went up. "Hoka hey!" the Lakotas were shouting. "They are going!" I saw this was true. The soldiers were running back up the coulee and swarming out over the higher ground to the north. Bobtail Horse ran to his pony, shouting to us as we caught our ponies. "Come on! They are running! Hurry!" He and I led the massed warriors across the ford, for the others knew we had stood bravely to protect the village and willingly followed us. Another warrior named Yellow Nose, a Sapawicasa [Ute] who had been captured as a boy by the Shahiyela and had grown up with them, was very brave that day. After we chased the soldiers back from the ford, he galloped out in front of us and got very close to them, then raced back to safety.In a little while all my bullets were gone. But by that time the soldiers lay still. We had killed them all. The battle was over. Soon we were shouting victory yells. When the women and children heard us, they came out on the ridge to strip the bodies and catch some of the big horses the soldiers had ridden. Some women had lost husbands or brothers or sons in the fight, so they butchered the soldiers' bodies to show their grief and anger.I began looking for bullets and weapons in the piles of dead bodies. Near the top of the ridge I saw a naked body and turned it over. The face had little hairs on it and looked like the white man who had worn the buckskin jacket and had lired at me across the ford -- the same one I had shot off his horse. I remembered how close some of his bullets had come, so I thought I would take the medicine of his trigger finger to make me an even better shot. Taking out my knile. I began to cut off that finger. Just then I heard a woman's voice behind me. I turned to see Meotzi and Yellow Bird and an older Shahiyela woman standing there. The older woman pointed to the while man's body, saying: "He is our relative." Then she signed for me to go away. I looked at Meotxi then and smiled, but she didn’t smile back at me, so I wondered if she thought it was wrong for a warrior to be cutting on an enemy's body. I decided she wouldn't be as proud of me if I cut off the white man's finger, and moved away. Pretending to be busy looking for bullets, I glanced back. Meotxi was looking down at the body while the older woman poked her sewing awl deep into each of the white man's ears. I heard her say: "So Long Hair will hear better in the Spirit Land." [Note: Cheyenne youth Dives Backward witnessed this scene -- a warrior trying to cut a finger off a dead American who was driven away by two grieving squaws, one Monaseetah and one an old woman with an awl.] That was the first I knew that Long Hair was the soldier chief we had been fighting and the white man I had shot at the ford... The tribes had split up after their victory at Little Bighorn. White Cow Bull never saw Meotzi again after that summer. Perhaps because of her, he never took a wife. After that day in Montana I saw the old man several times at Charlie Thunder Bull's cabin near Oglala, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, making three portraits of him before his death in 1942.
Thank you to my Lakota brothers and ancestors for being warriors and and fighting for your land. Proud to be part of the Lakota tribe.
Much love from my Comanche Nation my brother 🪶💯
@@sammienochez8497 - Want to talk about brutal people.... The Commanche were some of the most inhumane, brutal people alive. Most other tribes hated them and wanted them wiped off the face of the earth. Eventually, Europeans came and pretty much obliged them. Can't be the school yard bully anymore when your new enemy is 3000 years ahead of you in technology.
@@ElectronFieldPulse we got more heart than you and what whatever you are .
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@Sammie Nochez - No you don't. My people had enough heart to sail and conquer the world. Your people were too busy massacring and torturing other tribes to advance much. Do you know your own history? You do know EVERYONE hated the Commanche, right? Like, it wasn't hard at all to find other Native American allies to fight you, you were so sick to defeated people, you were basically viewed as a scourge on humanity.
@@ElectronFieldPulse what you get by speeading hate when your tribe already are on top.
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, two of my heroes and both played to perfection by Michael Greyeyes.
The conflicts in this nations past are heartbreaking. However, the fact that both sides can mourn their dead and tell their history is different from other nations. This country is far from perfect, but we must always work to make it better.
Why does mankind pick the most beautiful settings like this to fight and die?
@@petersonlafollette3521Because they can.
Sitting bull and crazy horse spirit tells me , that over 1 million natives came to fight the soldiers and destroyed them and many others that were not spoken about .
Pride hid the truth , Custer was surrounded by thousands and thousands of natives and wet himself .
Thou shall not steal. Respect to the Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the warriors.
Even this late in western expansionism the tribes were a force. They should have been recognized as a sustainable and valued U.S. military asset and strategy.
This was and still is Crow land.
ITS GODS LAND. you only live on mother earth.
@@lordofthewasteland4525 Everyone knows Native American culture is matriarch- "We never divide our mother."
@@petersonlafollette3521 no we weren't, that was an exaggeration. There were no female chiefs, our gender roles didn't allow it. We respected our women a lot more than most other civilizations though.
"A few years before, the US government had discovered gold in the nearby Black Hills, and wanted the tribes to sell their land. When they refused the US government was determined to round them up and move them to the great Sioux reservation..."
Euphemism for 'steal'.
Rich6Brew but were they able to get the supposed gold from that area?
The Lakota stole the Black Hills from the Cheyenne. Why do you support the Lakota's claim to the stolen land?
The land belongs to whoever can hold it . Thats a direct quote from Sitting Bull to the chief of the Crow Indians , shortly after winning the rights to the Blac hills from the Crow.
@@rexmundi7811 the Cheyenne, Crow, Nes Perce and Blackfoot all had "claim" to the hills, but no one owned them until Eurooeans stole them. They didn't "own" land that was.considered a living thing.
@@garydarland5259 If nobody owned the land as you say then it was not stealing to take possession of it. Of course the Lakota thought of Black Hills as their own territory. They murdered or forcefully drove the previous Native occupants out of this unowned land as you call it. As the Crows moved westward the Lakota continued to harass them. That is why Crow scouts eagerly worked with Custer. The Lakota camp on the Little Bighorn was on Crow territory.
What a great place to visit. I was very surprised to see how large is a battlefield was. One of the cool things about it is many of the goalies and the trees and everything is still in place from that historic battle.
Another thing that struck me was how little people were back then. I realized this first when we visited Lord Nelson’s shipyard in the Caribbean. The uniforms, the shoes, everything was a little. A six footer would’ve probably been a giant back at that time.
The uniforms on display at the Custer battlefield also and show people were little back then.
An interesting video. I'm glad that the brave Native American warriors have a memorial.
One of the most historic, peaceful, tranquil places in America.
How could this possibly be peaceful .
Another reminder of how our forefathers without conscience murdered the Native American's and stole their lands .
A shamefully history we have .
Custer and his soldiers got what they deserved .
Anthony L. Jumpy Jones Thats pretty hypocritical if you continue to live in the USA, don’t you think? Id think you’d want to get out of this horrible place.
@@jumpyonthehill curious...how do you respond to the fact that other Indian tribes stole the land from other tribes...is there a difference? All land has been stolen at one point or another right? The US did offer to pay first which I cant say other tribes would do.
@Troy Hendrickson None of us here today were alive back then. Who's left to hold accountable? All we can do is live with and try to improve the world we inherited.
You think???
I can only wish Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were more organized after this battle...
I agree
It wouldnt have made any difference. The battle of the greasy grass pretty much sealed our fate.
I agree
Shame how it happened but it was gunna happen regardless.
The natives were no match for the industrial machine that backed the US and most were probably unaware of its existence.
Any “civilized” peoples who wanted to come in in and take them over could have.
Dont worry. I'll pick it up where they left off. Join me ✊🏽♥️
I always loved the description of Custer by the Lakota braves, the man with hair like the grass when the thaw comes
I would have thought that a respected chanel like the Smithsonian would have done a better job telling the story of that fateful day instead of producing such a short full of holes story
Agreed. Little is known? Baloney.... at this point it is well documented.
Agreed. NZ
How hard is it to do a little research, assuming you care that is..........
It is hard to explain the fascination with a battle that seems so small compared to other conflicts. It is also hard to explain why so many still become rabid partisans over events and participants who have been long dead for some time. It reminds me of something I heard about those that love Harley Davidsons: if you have to ask, you will never understand. It is surprising that there could still be so much vitriol over a man whose big moment was a failure, yet there are those that claim they know just what Custer was thinking and how this God Of War was betrayed by lesser men. My version is somewhat simpler and it is based on something Gall said after the battle: "My heart was bad." Scouts with Reno, while attempting to raid the pony herds, fired shots indiscriminately into the village, killing two of Gall's wives and three of his children. He was enraged and wanted revenge. Writer Evan S. Connel said that Gall must have been like a wolf among sheep that day, and many were angered that the waiscus would attack them after they had repulsed General Crook at the Rosebud. Others were spurred on by relatives to protect the dependants and win some glory. But I think Captain Benteen said it best during an interview around the Reno Inquiry: “There were a great deal too many Indians.… We were at their hearths and homes; they had gotten the bulge on Reno; their medicine was working well, and they were fighting for all the good God gives anyone to fight for.” A great day for the Plains Indians that also led to a speedier downfall. A bad day for the 7th Calvary that would win them immortality for losing a battle.
Custer was defeated by his ego long before he was killed at the Little Bighorn! ☦️🙏
That's true, but before he died with a bullet wound in the chest, I believe his brother tom shot him in the head and he was not the last man standing he had been shot earlier in the battle and I think the rest of the troops became very confused about what was going to happen. Idiot's but got what was coming to them
Many, many people blame Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn on his "ego". I find this amusing, especially since none of these individuals can give a real, bonafide example of how his ego caused him to lose that battle.
@@josephcavaliere9772 I believe Buffalo calf road woman killed him, as told by the Cheyenne, who broke their silence on the matter 100 years after the battle...listen to what they say on how custer was wounded early on in the battle, and he was knocked off his horse with a cudgel (from her)
@@Eadbhard he rushed in to try use the women and children as shields again...it didn't work this time...
@@samtait3128 That's it? That's all you got? "He rushed in to try use the women and shields again". Can you elaborate on that, or are you too ignorant to do so?
“Custer had it Coming” 🤣
I remember those t shirts from the seventies!
Amen to that!!!!!!
We all have it coming.
@@thetatv1339
Lol, right again.
Why ? He fought with distinction in the civil war and became the youngest Brigadier General in History . He freed millions of slaves and risked his own life countless times . Whats your big accomplishment ? Growing long hair?
Growing up as a kid back in the late 60s early 70s we would go back to Missouri on vacation every year to visit family from the West coast and on our way back we would always stop at the Little bighorn and you could walk right out to the battlefield and they had little markers where they found Colonel Custer and the horse and all the other people that died that dayI don't think you can do that anymore but as a child I remember standing right where Colonel Custer died.
In a nut shell, a very good account of the jist of what took place. In depth details are debatable to this day, but many good books by authorities and historians attempt to present the facts. It's an awesome place to visit and spend several hours. Ask questions of the tour guides, that's what they are there for. Marvel at the open skies and landscape. Relax in the tranquility and the silence. If you go on a pleasant day and the weather is good, it will be a cherished memory for years. There are amenities in the reservation town of Crow Agency nearby. Enjoy your visit. Cheers,. Bob in Montana
Been there! a haunting place when the wind blows.
Now I must go
Grandfather, Mysterious One,
We search for you along this
Great Red Road you have set us on.
Sky Father, Tunkashila,
We thank you for this world.
We thank you for our own existence.
We ask only for your blessing and for your instruction.
Grandfather, Sacred One,
Put our feet on the holy path that leads to you,
and give us the strength and the will
to lead ourselves and our children
past the darkness we have entered.
Teach us to heal ourselves,
to heal each other and to heal the world.
Let us begin this very day,
this very hour,
the Great Healing to come.
Let us walk the Red Road in Peace. Copyright TATANKA LUTA
You talking to me?
Quite a few comments here suggest the account of what actually happened to Custer's men is inaccurate; the narrator even states that what happened is shrouded in question marks. Many years ago I read a book titled, "Save the Last Bullet For Yourself," in which a retired history professor who had written two books of a trilogy on Custer went to live among the Sioux to learn what happened so that he could finish his ambitious biography of Custer. Because this was in the early years of the 20th Century, many of the native Americans who participated in the battle were still alive. The professor learned the language and over several years pieced together what did occur, and his book (mentioned above) recapitulated what he learned. Briefly, he found that Custer's men were so overcome by what was happening in the battle that the shout went up, "Save the last bullet for yourself." Poorly trained soldiers (leftover soldiers from the Civil War) drenched with the false notions that the native Americans would torture them if captured, they took "the easy way out." The professor's details are compelling, so much so that I recall them to this day but do not want to cover what the book does far better. Sitting Bull's "sun dance" had not only predicted a victory for them but also that the white man's bullets would not harm the natives (a belief that helps explain what happened in later encounters). That's why there was so much shooting going on (soldiers committing suicide) but few native Americans hit. The idea that "about 100 Indians died" is false, the figure being more like 30. Faced with such a dismal story, and aware that left in the open June sun for days the bodies would not prove mass suicide, and with the nation celebrating its 100th anniversary of its Revolution (July 4, 1776), the Custer episode has been twisted into a more palatable formula. Read the book.
The old " It's true ! I read it in a Book! " argument .
Exactly!
I could see that possibly being true for some, as it was a known habit with some tribes to torture their captives, but any suicides probably would've happened near the end, when their numbers were dwindling. Hard to know for sure though of course.
@@theodoremartin6153 as opposed to I heard it in a video 😂😂😂😂😂
No prisoners. RIP to Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and their brave warriors fighting to the last drop of blood.
Custer 🐎 got what was coming 2 him. The Cheyenne, Lakota etc. All were done dirty. GREED is a B - - - - !
We’re all being done dirty.
@@thetatv1339
Yup
The narrator is wrong. The soldier's bones were interred around the base of the monument itself, not in the national cemetery. The headstones mark the place they fell and were originally buried I would expect better from Smithsonian.
+FetchTheSled Wasnt it a disgraceful video and from the Smithsonian who teach out history? And the statement General Terry started with 879men is absolute garbage, Thst was how many men Custer had when he was sent of by Terry. Also the statement hundreds of Indians when it was thousands. Etc etc the whole thing is full of totally inaccurate information. Shame on the Smithsonian.
I wouldn't expect too much from them.
What does the creation of the US have to do with it? The US was created 100 years earlier.
It's brighter here. 👀
Actually, you’re both right. The bodies were originally buried where they fell and later moved to base.
Proud of my native American heritage
You Should Take Revenge Because They’ve Stolen Your Land
My great great great grand pappy was called 3 legs.
Don't ask.
I came expecting a shitshow of a comment section. I was not disappointed.
Yes 9 year olds thinking they are like 5 star generals or something.
The stones were placed 14 yrs. after the battle and are not accurate. The monument sits on a mass grave were most were buried..The grass was taller in 1876 as well.
Its a creepy place.
LONG LIVE NATIVE PEOPLE!!!!!
This is a great monument and museum. It is definitely worth visiting.
According to our legends, which don’t seem to count when ppl are researching these documentaries, White Bull killed Custer and it wasn’t on last stand Hill. It was in a stream lol
I guess someone carried Custer’s body back up to Last Stand Hill and placed it in the middle of a bunch of other bodies and dead horses.
@@thetatv1339 haha , yeah if he was killed at the River or mortally wounded as all his wounds were Keogh would've been with Cooke Custers adjutant Garryowen
I've visited this site a few times since the 1980s. It was initially a monument to Custer and his troops. Fortunately the indigenous people who actually own the land turned it into what it should have been all along--a tribute to the people who defended their land, not the white soldiers who believed in manifest destiny.
It would be manifest destiny, too, that would he the reason why the Trail of Tears was even called that.
It was and still is Crow land. The Lakota and Cheyenne were trespassing. The Crow were long time enemies. In fact the Crow had asked the U.S. to stop the Lakota from harassing them on their own land.
@@rexmundi7811 The Sioux and the Cheyenne were the enemies of several other tribes on the Plains. One example is Massacre Canyon in Southwest Nebraska where Sioux mounted warriors attacked a band of Pawnee men, women, and children.
Ok Mrs Wokester in Chief with purple hair and a nose ring
@@danbev9313 What is a wokester?
Proud of my Oglala Lakota Ancestors for fighting for my people and our sacred home
...that you stole from the Absaroke.
i been here what a peaceful place i will never forget it
"Little is known of what happened next..."??? A LOT is known of what happened. The Native Tribes have been telling their side of the story for a hundred and forty-two years now of what happened at the battle. The problem was the white historians didn't want to include it in their versions of history. They wanted Custer to be forever viewed as a hero, even in the films and TV shows of the 20th century. There's plenty of material to research as to what happened at the battle from all of the Native tribes that participated in it. All of the Tribes have their stories of eyewitness accounts as to what happened. I can't believe a video by the Smithsonian would choose to ignore these details and hide it from the public. Shame on you. And it wasn't just a "crushing" defeat in US military history; it was also a victory of 'FREEDOM' for the Native Tribes against its Oppressors.
Well said! 👏🏼 I'd even go as far as to say how much it blows my mind that so many still vote and support the same broken, crooked, greedy government system. That's why history repeats itself. The government has always used people as pawns, and put individual greed over the life of another. One good thing about the internet is it gives somewhat of a platform for the truth to be shared across the nation and globally. Like you said, there's plenty of information available showing in detail how the system has always been, and still is corrupt and bias. Channels like this, and other mainstream outlets are all still controlling the information they share. One thing all these egoic, sociopathic, broken humans that make up the system have forgotten, is that we are not the most powerful thing in existence, and all this chaos that's happening in the world is a result of living a detached life, and abusing our earth and fellow humans. Those who are aware, compassionate and lead with love, just like the indigenous people did/ do, in harmony, will survive. Those who cling to greed, lies, and pride will fall. I think in the end nature and the enlightened will "win"
The biggest lie told by the government is that the united states has never lost a war they lost the war against all natives they wanted us all dead and couldnt get anywhere with red cloud sitting bull and crazy horse they lost the most men against the lakota
The name Smithsonian says it all..... Joseph Smith and the Freemasons!
Thousands of braves..fierce warrior fellas..not stoked to have their camp disturbed by jerks. Said to have been lodges stretching for several miles. Many tribes united camping together.
I call it white history books. Even micheal jackson said history books were lies. White people only made up history to make them feel better
I've heard that Chief Crazy Horse really was crazy. I heard that he would be on his horse with the rest of the Indian warriors, overlooking an army of soldiers, and then say something like, "You all stay here, and watch me take care of this myself", and then he would go into war mode and ride his horse right into the thick of it.
Absolute giga Chad lol
I believe George Armstrong Custer was a general of the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry on the day my people wiped him out; If I'm not mistaken, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General at the age of 23 before the Battle of Gettysburg.
He held the rank of Lt. Colonel on the day he got his just desserts.
It appears there is still anger and untruths in the air. Did we not learn from this or any war. Death doesn't conquer the enemy, as the comments below prove. Peace to you all, please.
Ted Dickerson people are very strange my friend .. peace to you
a correction to the Smithsonian account 0:40 WRONG US government signed right of back hills over to the tribes, the US government found gold in them there hills and then changed thee agreement... and so on.... repeated many times.... remember that.
He who makes a treaty can break a treaty , so say the Us supreme court when the Sioux tried to reclaim the Blac hills 40 yearts ago . The sioux got 300 million in compensation though.
A victory for the true americans ✌️
@Steve Mc lol you disease
@Troy Hendrickson Haven't visited Rapid City or the Pine Ridge Reservation lately have you? Might want to re-check that comment.
what a beautiful country
It's shameful what happened to the Native Americans,so
sad! 😢
shitting bull maybe...I am related to George washington@21st century superstar
Teach the truth, not lies, I have great respect for the native Americans they suffered more than the black people.
@Michael Willhoit they werent nice to an invading army. how strange.
@@eddiesaninocencio6635 , still are suffering. Custer commited suicide as did a large number of his men.
I love my Native American warriors who fought so bravely.
This is quite indelicate as it's narrated to sound like a great gesture: 'move them to the great Sioux reservation' - as if it was a golden land, really the highest of the high, made especially lovely for them with care and tenderness.
You don't force man of his land. What were they expecting?
Natives did it to each other all the time though
@Donald Allen you sound like you need a lesson in life. A history lesson going back to the very beginning of the human race would be a good start. You will find whatever you seek, wherever you look. No one race, color or creed is without fault.
@@gone547 yeah, but without a doubt, the american government has always abused minorities since the start, in search of wealth :(
@DonaldAllen...I fail to see your reasoning here...you admit all races, colors, nations have taken land from others, taken slaves, killed innocents. But you claim white Europeans are the worst because they did it best??? Gimme a break man....
So when are you going to turn everything you have over to an Indian who took the land of other indian he hated.
Custer and his forefathers had devastated the balance of the world, and he paid the ultimate price.
There seems to be posters here with serious knowledge deficiencies. Let me start about the Gatlin gun controversy. There was no controversy because general Terry had two guns in total which he didn't want to bring in the first place because of chronic problems with jamming ,parts falling off and very cumbersome.The terrain Custer had to travel over at "upmost speed" would have been a total disaster for all the companies that rode under Custer.Custer was under strict instructions to carry out his orders or be court marchelled.The biggest mistake Custer made was to bring all his trusted men with him and his five companies.
''...carry out his orders or be court *marchelled*'' ?
No such word. 'Marchelle' is a French 'baby name' of the female gender.
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It should have read: '' ...carry out his orders or face court(s) martial. And the correct spelling for the rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm is *Gatling* - so named after its inventor - R J GatlinG
I haven't seen a worse description of this battle. It's positively shameful in it's inaccuracies.
This battle was fought on Crow land, not Sioux land.
It is my honest belief that Custer sent Reno in alone to draw the Lakota andCheyenne warriors away from the fleeing women and children leaving them open to attack from his own troops. to capture the non-combatants as he did at the Washita may well have given him a victory. the fact that Reno and his command would pay the price probably didnt come into it. too bad Crazy Horse was one step ahead of him. the result was the right one.
HOU . If Reno would of kept his troops in the trees and defended it down to last man it would of kept most of the warriors at bay for the time being . If long hair would of pushed hard into the village the out come would of been different !! BUT long hair smoked with the arrow keeper down south and made promise not to make war on my cheyenne people if he did he would be wiped out and he did .. He was blind to the medicine to the promise he made ..that day my fore fathers fought on that day June 25 1876 .. Whitehawk, bobtail horse, tallwhiteman, hollowwood,
+paul gregory That is exactly the plan he used. He lied to Reno saying he would support him . When Reno was under a major attack and was retreating and trapped in the trees and trying to get back across the river, Custer sat on a hill watching it all seeing Reno was being wiped out by virtually a thousand Indians. Custer left Reno and rode of to the other end of the Village to capture the women and kids and elderly knowing full well he was leaving Reno to his death. Custer was happy to sacrifice Reno and his men. Trouble was he couldn't Ford the river and was driven back by a small group of Indians. When they main group attacking Reno heard and realized they were under attack from the other end they all headed back . By then Reno was on Reno hill fighting a rear guard and surrounded, and had 50 injured troops with half hiscommand dead or wounded. When Benteen arrived, Reno the superior officer told Benteen to stay with him and protect the wounded etc . Custer made the fatal error of dividing his forces, underestimating the size of the enemy even when the scouts had warned him, of taking exhausted men and horses into battle, and of not knowing the terrain. Stupid deadly error. Custer was banking 100% that he could capture the women and children and himself being safe using them. He didnt care what happened to Reno or Benteen. He wanted glory.
+Paul Noble Finally ! Your response is right on sir. I've studied this battle for many years & have visited the site 6 times, (probably next year again) If you want to read some good material try these: "the warrior who killed custer" by james h. howard or anything by the author: Stanley Vestal or books by Dr. Herman J. Viola These authors have done much research, some have talked to descendants of the battle on the indian side, and Vestal interviewed White Bull, a Miniconjou, and lived until 1947. White Bull was 26 yrs. old at time of battle and related the hand to hand fight with Custer before he killed him. All of these references are spell binding to history loving people and I personally eat this stuff up.
www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/white_cow_bull_little_big_horn.html Zeke Placer
I believe this version. I visited the site 2 years back and was stunned. To actually see it and the whole area was one of the best experiences of my life and made me study more and more what happened. I will be returning this year armed with far more knowledge and am so looking forward to being able to trace it all and see exactly what went on. I have written other bits on here but to be honest and not rude or arrogant I really have given up trying to explain to most what in actuality probably happened. I believe fully that White Cow Bull killed Custer at the Ford and that if you take this as what happened it explains fully what happened after as Custer was not in command and no one knew what to do. The Indians and other scouts have confirmed also that after the attempted crossing of the ford the troops retreated to what is now cemetery ridge and there they waited 20 minutes doing nothing. It was always a mystery to why they did this but if you take that Custer had been shot in the left chest and the men dragged him from the river and retreated, it would have been to the nearest high point which is the ridge, then it all makes sense. They would have been assessing Custer for 15 20 minutes. The surgeon was with Custer as well as another doctor so they were tending to him for sure. realizing he was mortally wounded, probably unconscious or at best drifting in and out of consciousness, loss of blood and a probably fatal chest wound they started to retreat under fire further back up, which is onto Last Stand Hill. Custer would have been laid out at the top and surrounded by horses as breast plates exactly how it was described by the 1st on the scene. They recorded Tom Custer and George, Cooke and 7 others , total about 10 men, were found at the top of the hill or knoll as they called it where the monument now stands. They were surrounded by about 10 dead horses shot to make breast work. Custer had a small caliber bullet hole in his head. I believe Custer was laid there by his brothers and when the scene become hopeless, Tom shot his brother so as he would not be captured. I fully believe the reason there was no charging retreat to Reno was that no one was in command and none of the officers knew what to to and were in total shock over Custer being shot.
www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/peter_thompson_little_big_horn.html#custer_wore
Zeke Placer
Legend says George Custer is now the Headless Horseman of Montana
Inaccurate and lightweight account of what happened here.
Interview of the native Americans there, say the battle lasted three hours and the calvary fought fiercely.
@@sgtzsquad they also said it took no longer to defeat them than it takes a white man to finish his meal.
Where is your proof of this? Please read Killing Custer by James Welch.
Bring back Aerial America!
What a respectful race the traditional land owners were, even still today they are not bitter about their past they acknowledge the history of their people and don’t blame the modern world... I have the utmost respect for them
Custers big mistake was expecting the same level of battle he recieved from former battles against women and children
Custer's biggest mistake was carrying the same hubris with him that he had in the Civil War. His arrogance knew no bound.
Also cocky arrogant and vainglorious...shuda taken both gatling guns and sabers ..mite have been a differant outcome BUT
@@claytonlowry1280 the problem though is gattling guns are probably too heavy that it will need at least two men to push it along, but gattling guns would have definitely allowed Custer to gain the upper hand
It began long before that sun dance.
My great uncle was in this battle. His name is on the memorial.
that is really cool
And his name?
No offense but if he was with custer he got what he deserved
@@jooksin6244 My great uncle A-walled because he saw the injustice. He was coming out of a bar just as Custard was riding by w/his F troop. Saying to my great Uncle that if he didn't join them Custard would shoot him on the spot. If he gotten over the ridge he'd been the only survivor.
I like calling him Custard, knowing its Custer.
The Pawnee too were there fighting Custer, if you want to know what actually happen next then you go to the Lakota elders and they will tell you. It was Custer's brother who finish General Custer off, he was shot by a Lakota worrier, but his brother seeing that he was gravely injured, knowing they were going to be wiped out either shot Custer on his brothers orders, or his own volition so he wouldn't be alive when the Nations worriers came for their scalps. Because the Lakota realized that Custer basically committed suicide they left his body and uniform intact, suicide is look down on as a cowardly act by the people of the Nations.
That's interesting . But most of the storys state Rain shot custer .I really doubt custer committed suicide ,however there are accounts that many did shoot themselves .I personally do not know why custer did not just go down with a flag of truce brought them back to the res.Most of the Lakota Sioux were in no mood to talk though .
@@allenrobinson8689 from what ive read tom custer shot his brother in the head which was out of love
Wow that makes sense
It is really sad they mutilated bodies so much that only one was intact and recognizable..... Fricking animals
@@ElectronFieldPulse Do a little reading of history there Cow-Poke, both civilians and military use to scalp Native Americans for bounty money. Turn about is fair play, scalp and mutilate men, woman and children, then you shouldn't be surprised when it comes right back at you.
Hard to believe such horror happened in such a beautiful place .
Complete lie, Custer was his own undoing....
Where was the lie?
Crazy Horse did well to exploit the incompetence though.
Even if it meant me never being born on this soil,I wish the Lakota,Cheyenne had won more battles against the real savages.These people were done wrong time and time again.
@Crazy Canuck There's nothing bigoted about the truth. Everything I said was 100 percent true, dummkopf.
My great-grandmother was born in 1858 I was born in 1958 she died at the age of 114 and 1972 I was 14 years old , She told my brothers and sisters that she can remember when custer met his end she said that Indians would never have shot him in the temple that's where he was actually shot the temple and in the chest she said that Indians would not have done that because they would prefer that he suffer being shot with arrows not bullets the indians knew him as yellow hair or long hair while she was telling this story they had the local newspaper there, she was in the paper I saw that picture but they never recounted that story they happened to leave that story out. She believe Custer took his own life which means that in reality he was what he was a coward.
Absolutely right
@@josephdelatorre3751 Tell that to the millions of black folks he freed by his heroic acts in the civil war . Whats your biggest achievement in life ? Growing long hair?
Custer was an ar9ogant guy with superiority complex and utter disrespect for the Natives. His defeat was a fitting payback for his raid in Washita where he slaughtered peaceful Cheyenne waiting as instructed for the decision from Washington.
So very accurate. 'Battle of The Washita' from Wikipedia:
According to a modern account by the United States Army Center of Military History, the 7th Cavalry had 21 officers and men killed and 13 wounded at the Washita. They estimated the Indians had perhaps 50 killed and as many wounded. Twenty of the soldiers killed were part of a small detachment led by Major Joel Elliott, who was among the dead. Elliott had separated from the three companies he led, apparently without Custer's approval. Yelling "Here's for a brevet or a coffin!" Elliott and his small band pursued a group of fleeing Cheyenne. Elliott's contingent ran into a mixed party of Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho warriors who were rushing from villages up the river to aid Black Kettle's encampment. The warriors overwhelmed the small troop in a single charge.
Custer's abrupt withdrawal without determining the fate of Elliott and the missing troopers darkened Custer's reputation among his peers. There was deep resentment within the 7th Cavalry that never healed. In particular, Frederick Benteen, Eliott's friend and H Company captain, never forgave Custer for "abandoning" Elliott and his troopers. Eight years later, when Benteen failed to race to Custer's aid at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, his actions were closely examined in light of his long-standing anger toward Custer for the events at the Washita River.
the lakota and cheyenne had repeating rifles while the soldiers had single shot rifles, a real advantage...
It was about time they had some advantage. Slightly outnumbered btw...
Custer probably thought that he can gain the upper hand against numerically superior opponents.. pretty sure he may have taken inspiration from other military leaders who are able to win against numerically superior opponents (ie Julius Caesar, Leonidas or Alexander the great) yet he did not do further research..
it's so sad that this happened i believe it could have been avoided if the government would have kept it's word to native Americans
“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?” - Sitting Bull
R.I.P. CRAZY HORSE
R.I.P. RUSSELL MEANS
FIRST NATION FOREVER 🔥
To be brutally honest this was the last stand of the plains Nations not Custer's .
We're still breathing tho. Lulls in wars happen. War is opportunity. We're waiting for ours.
I told you wait. My existence is a scar on America's shin. A failure if you will. Someone important to me said conscious cohesive thought with disagreement and knowledge is what's needed now. As of now we can't fight. We're outnumbered and they have the tactical advantage. One must out think them. With people in charge like joe and aoc. I'm thinking out thinking would be easier anyway. But as of now, just wait.
@@jonanderson4474 dont wait for the government to something. Become the government. Educate yourselves to their ways, run for Office, embed yourselves in their systems and beat them at their own game. That's how winning is done! We have a man up here in Manitoba whose doing exactly that by the name of Wab Kinew. I believe that after our next Provincial Election he'll be the next Premier of Manitoba. Good luck, friend.
Yeah but Custer went first lol
@@jonanderson4474 - You guys will never retake your lands, but you can be successful in America. You need to work hard and actually try, but it is possible. Sitting on a reservation and hoping prosperity comes to you won't work...
For those of us wishing to know the truth, please read Custer's last declaration he wrote before going into battle that was read before Congress. There are so many discrepancies in this video why did they bother to make it?
How can Custer give an account of a battle that hadn't been fought?
@TroyHendrickson..Pretty sure a woman born over 50 years after the event in question is gonna be just as loose with factual info on the matter as the video shown above...
May they all Rest In Peace ☮️. Americans and indians.
With reference to your comment saying “Americans and Indians”… The Indians were the original Americans, my friend. They still are.
@@nitinh2499 i supose so
They didn’t “claim” anything they stole everything
You mean like the Lakota stole the land and Black Hills from the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and others as they moved from MN after being forced out by the Chippewa and others. Got it. Because they didn't take the land peacefully. They were only in the Black Hills region about 120 years because the settlers showed up there after pushing out tribes that had been there thousands of years. They have the shortest title reign of most tribes in the region for the Black Hills and Great Plains. The Natives didn't claim anything either and didn't sign any peaceful papers with other tribes. They stole everything too. But that's a sensitive subject to talk about it seems because that's a part of history some want to ignore. The Lakota were living on land they stole, that ultimately was then stolen from them.
@@whitetigergrowl It seems you like to comment this on everything.
Yes, you are correct. However there is a reason it isn't talked about as much, and it's a reason that's more respectable than you might think.
The land belonged to the first nations, before Europeans came along, therefore- however cruel they wanted to treat each other, it was more understandable. In a sense, it was their land.
They didn't venture across the sea for more land, they weren't overrun by complete greed and a lust for power. They claimed what was close to them, because it belonged to them all.
I am not apart of the woke crowd. I dislike them, actually. But to say "what white people did is completely okay because they did it to each other on a smaller scale" is wrong.
But never judge a man by the actions of his ancestors, something I see all too often today.
American history is painful for me. Hurts my soul...
"Where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Defeated Colonel Custer" I think you"ll find if anyone does some indepth reading and research on Custer and the Little Big Horn you"ll soon come to the conclusion that it was Maj Reno and Capt Benteen who defeated George Armstrong Custer: Major-General of Volunteers; Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant-Colonel, Seventh U.S. Cavalry at LBH
😂 "Yes it was meee, who defeated meee this whole time I knew it!"
The soldiers are not buried in the cemetary theyre under the monument and the officers were reinterred elsewhere
My teach told. Me to watch this!
Custer had it coming.
Very true.
Custer served with distinction in the civil war . Because of his bravery he allowed the USA to liberate a billion people from tyranny in the 20th century . Whereas you are a waste of air.
Love the south .csa x
Sadly the largest genocide of indigenous people in modern history, God bless the native Indian tribes for their wisdom, humility, and understanding of nature long may they thrive. It is us who are the poorer persons with our souls of material emptiness on the road to self-destruction.
We remembered it as the American civilians intruders involvement that started the Buffalo County war! The only Dakota sioux indian reservation in south Dakota would actually fought a heroic victories war to save their entire northern reservation lands along the beautiful Missouri River. Also there's a very sad forgotten tragedy and the last forgotten true warriors victory song! From may through August of 1931 the continued harassment by the local towns people and the ranchers in the area of the north! During the early days of the dust bowl area of the 1930s on the crow creek sioux Indian reservation of SD northwest of half a mile the town of stephan. A large encampment over sixty to eighty hunkpati Dakota sioux people were living on Cheney rush, a hilly prairie land country along the beautiful Missouri River. When a large party of over hundred American civilians arrived there with guns and rifles. They wanted to take away the hunkpati Dakota sioux indians entire northern part of the reservation Buffalo hunting grounds and their fertile farm lands along the beautiful Missouri River. After a failed negotiations with the encampment. An altercation of violence that really happened there! Both sides started a full bloody massacre fight! The American civilians had less fewer casualties over twenty had died plus many were wounded during the fierce fighting! The entire Dakota sioux Indian encampment were all killed there! The American civilians buried the dead Dakota sioux bodies north on top of a rolling small hill, the secret mass grave site. Only tragedy someone tried to cover up the evidence that it never happened there! The Dakota sioux Indian elders were young children at the time saw an witness the tragedy unfolded there will hiding a safe distance away! Many years later they told the story well crying and wipt of their people were brutal torture to death at the Cheney rush massacre, the second sand creek massacre! Some of the Dakota sioux people who died there were descents of bullghost the Dakota sioux Indian war leader later becoming the spiritual advisor of the ghost dance uprising of 1890 he inspired many Lakota sioux people to the ghost dance celebration in standing rock SD. Bullghost has many relatives from standing rock to crow creek SD. His buried north of the reservation the big bend committee. The children want an told everyone on the reservation of the tragic very sad forgotten tragedy that happened there! The next day a larger party of over three hundred Dakota sioux warriors we're coming ready to fight against the American civilians! Iron Nation's kul wicasa oyate, the Lakota sioux warriors may have assisted in the fighting to! After a running battle was fought there! Probably more Americans civilians were killed there! The rest of the American civilians had fled back to thier ranches and towns never wanting to take back the hunkpati Dakota sioux people's traditional reservation Buffalo hunting grounds and their rich fertile farm lands along the beautiful Missouri River. Crow creek sioux Indian reservation of SD is only Dakota sioux indian reservation still has its own tribal traditional boundaries Lands east of the beautiful Missouri River. The last forgotten tragedy of the 20th century and the last forgotten Dakota sioux Indian war of the spring and summer time of 1931. The people of the crow creek still remember the sad tragic day and the joyful happy day of our brave Dakota and Lakota sioux warriors! The last forgotten Dakota sioux indian victory many decades after the little bighorn battle field! The De Grey lake resort is two or three miles north of the Cheney rush massacre site! The De Grey lake resort is were the dances with wolves movie Civil War battle scene was made along the beautiful Missouri River.
No battle. No defeat. No last-stand. Custer, and his men were completely massacred.
Sitting Bull did not "defeat" Custer. He was a spiritual leader and healer at this time of his life. He had visions that may have influenced his people, but was not in the physical part of the battle whatsoever.
Mind over matter my friend.
that's what I said (my friend). Read between the lines.
SgtBaker16 Yep....that's what a spiritual leader does... and that's what I called him, didn't I ?
Sitting Bull's Nephew "White Bull" Killed Custer in a hand to hand Combat. Custer last act before death was to throw his pistol at the Brave but it was picked up and shot him with it twice once to the temple and once to the left side of his heart.
Yep....I knew all of that......duh ! What does that have to do with spiritual leader....etc...etc...etc...?
Fact of life winning a battle doesn't not mean you win the final outcome as these two Chiefs have paid the maximum price.
My buddy joe told me Custer just wanted Sitting Bulls autograph...
Custer horse is buried next to my buddy house in Tecumseh Michigan. There is a big rock with plaque marking the spot
CRAZY HORSE-LEGEND!
Compared to the civil war
It was only a minor skirmish!
how can anyone with a sane mind call it us land. I am white but I readily concede that what was done to the native peoples is one of the blackest pages in the creation of all things.
Then if you knew history, you would know what the Sioux did to the other tribes in the Great Plains and Black Hills regions, they were also the oppressors and conquerors. They did nothing noble about what they did to those tribes to steal their land and claim it as their own, then to hide under spiritualism for about 120 yrs before the arrival of the settlers to that area. They set upon their fellow man for many of the same reasons the settlers did and for no less a noble a reason.
Upon reading the comments, I’m not going to finish. I was hoping for real truth.
Anything' Smithsonian' has the moral backbone of a jellyfish. The Truth, any truth, is nothing but some gnostic mystery of perspective. There is a reason keoghs ' agnus dei' gold necklace was never looted off his mutilated corpse. History and all classical liberal arts are a victim today. Things arent what they are, it's what you make them to be, including history.
The remains of the soldiers are near the large granite monument. Major Reno is buried in the National Cemetery on the battlefield.
A great read on this subject matter is Evan S Connell’s book, “Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn”…
Probably ‘the’ best, meticulously researched book on the matter… hugely impressive…
Is there any monument for the thousands on native American men, women and childrn killed by the 7th Cavalery?
Slaughtered 🤔
There is a Native American monument at Little Bighorn. It’s a metal sculpture showing warriors riding off to battle, with their women handing them their shields. If you sit at the right angle and look at it, it looks like their ghosts are riding on the hills. They show it here briefly. It is one of the coolest monuments I’ve ever seen.
Grandfather( SITTING BULL),was indeed a vishionary and the mouthpiece of the (GREAT SPIRIT)
This is where Custer became no more.
Lakota Proud
Oglala Strong
Imagine you and your family living on THE land for as far back as you remember living and calling it home then one day a bunch of people you have never seen come and demand that you give up everyone you had built and give up your home because we want to live here and if you don't we will kill you and take it. You would fight and if needed die in the process if need be. I never gave much thought to this until I grew up and figure out what really went down. Wow were really the savages. I don't know just something I've been thinking about. Everyone else should too.
That's weird. The Lakota did the same exact thing to the Pawnee, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Crow, etc as they were forced out of MN by the Chippewa, which is their native home. Not the Black Hills region. They were only in that area about 120 years before the arrival of the settlers. They slaughtered the other tribes and forced them off the land they had for thousands of years then hid behind, and still seem to, spiritualism to justify their own theft of land. Then gave a spiritual history with the Black Hills that they had no prior history with. We conquered them like they conquered the other tribes for no less noble of cause. They stole land, the settlers stole it from the stealers. Weird how it's ok if it's the same skin color. It's justified then. But if you are a different skin color suddenly it's not justified.
whitetigergrowl we get it. You hate when everyone talks about the negative side of white history
@@whitetigergrowl The land belongs to whoever can hold it .
@@theodoremartin6153 yes the land belongs to those who can hold it I'm polish and stuck between Russia in Germany and you don't hear us crying haha you can't judge people from other Generations in today's crazy world of everyone gets a trophy garryowen
@Lats Niebling history means nothing to these snowflakes sadly that is what they teach them in school 2 minutes on a complex subject and they know everything ,very sad garryowen
Might have also noted the granite markers for individual warriors.
They had it coming. That "Calvary".
How can someone be proud of this??
So many horses shown, but none of these was seen acting crazy. And I didn't see any bull sitting in the grass. Disappointed.
The sitting bull stood up and walked away a long time ago.
I miss all Native American. I would like to see all of them still have a better Life. This is my parent and family and a beautiful culture must to keep carefully as hall fame
What isn’t said here is that the white soldiers bodies were stripped and severely desecrated by the Indians. This dishonorable treatment of the corpses was considered by some leaders of their tribe as contributing to their ultimate loss as a people later in the century. Essentially it only served to exemplify their consideration as savages by the rest of the public and erode growing public sympathy. Sadly Custer himself was somewhat sympathetic to their grievances and mainly wanted to make a name for himself in the military by being able to resettle them without violence and only using it as a show of force….up until he was killed.
So how many soldiers are still buried in the common grave under the main marker?
The book Killing Crazy Horse does a very good job telling the accurate history of this battle.
I agree. It does a good job of telling both sides of the story.
@@stacyhazelwood4033 uh oh, that's usually a 75/25 in truth.
Custer's Last Meal: Buffalo Steak, corn on the cob and baked beans...
I believe his last meal was lead.
@@debaterofeverythingpresent2775 Nah. He had the steak and all. His mistake was having the lead as a dessert.
He missed the McDonald's on the way I suppose.
That actually sounds pretty tasty right now! With Worcestershire sauce on the steak and butter on the corn.
@273065.77M 371H41.1 I Googled it!
Didn’t technically one survive from Custer’s group? Granted, he wasn’t in the last stand battle, but the messenger he sent back before they charged was the only one from his group that lived.
Most of them survived that day, but they were miles away from the part most think of.
That was my back yard as a kid.
When I was a kid in 1967 I met crazy horse nephew he was 100 and something then he said that his dad and crazy horse road up the hill where Custer and his officer's where and they where already dead they had committed suicide. what was strange when i was about 40 years old i went to the Buffalo bill museum there was a painting of custer on his horse shooting himself in the head and the painting was about 100 years old when i saw this i remember what that old Indian chief and thought ma bee he was telling the truth,,
+Kekona Baron I beleive Custer shot himself as well. He had a chest would and a wound in his temple. I hardly think Indians attacking and then just shooting a man in the temple. No I think he saw what was happening and like many of his men, shot himself. The outcome of him being captured would have been in his mind.
+Kekona Baron Wrong ! ! White Bull, a Miniconjou, was the one who killed Custer, and he had two witnesses that came on the scene during that hand to hand fight. They were: Crow Boy & Bear LIce. After the battle, White Bull did not know he had indeed killed Custer until another Dakota named Bad Soup told him he knew that was "Long Hair" because he had seen him at Fort Abraham Lincoln at various times.
Zeke Placer
NO your wrong. There was never any hand to hand with Custer. Custer had a chest wound left side which Doctors at the battlefield said was a near fatal wound and would have immobilized Custer totally when received. . He died from a small caliber bullet in the forehead believed to be by his brother Tom who had the same caliber hand gun. The Indian was not White bull but WHITE COW BULL in fact Joseph White Cow Bull, an Oglala Lakota. White Cow Bull was interviewed in 1938 and gave this account. All of this story over the years beginning with the battle and his account was and had been verified. My rifle was a repeater, so I kept firing at the Crows until these Sioux were safely on our side of the river. They had no guns, just lances and bows and arrows. But they got off their ponies and joined us behind the ridge. Just then I saw a Shahiyela named White Shield, armed with bow and arrows, come riding downriver. He was alone, but we were glad to have another fighting man with us. That made ten of us to defend the ford.
I looked across the ford and saw that the soldiers had stopped at the edge of the river. [Note: this agrees with Peter Thompson, who said Custer briefly halted his men at the ford while he rode upriver alone about 1,000 feet, either to scout a better place to cross or to rape the Sioux squaw Curley had waiting there.] 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 horse, a sorrel with a blazed face and four white stockings. [Note: Although there were several officers in buckskin that day, Custer was the only one on a sorel horse with four white socks. The one detail that doesn't agree with Peter Thompson's account is that Thompson said Custer had taken his jacket off.] On one side of him was a soldier carrying a flag and riding a gray horse, and on the other was a small man on a dark horse. This small man didn't look much like a white man to me, so I gave the man in the buckskin jacket my attention. [Note: According to Pretty Shield, the "small dark man" was Mitch Bouyer, head of scouts.] He was looking straight at us across the river. Bobtail Horse told us all to stay hidden so this man couldn't see how few of us there really were.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 first, and I saw a soldier on a gray horse (not the flag carrier) fall out of his saddle into the water. The other soldiers were shooting at us now. The man who seemed to be the soldier 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. [Note: Seventh Cavalry scout Curley described seeing the same incident, and Pretty Shield confirmed that Custer was shot out of the saddle at the very outset of the Custer fight. See Who Killed Custer - The Eye-witness Answer for more info.]
Shooting that man stopped the soldiers from charging on. They all reined up their horses and gathered around where he had fallen. I fired again, aiming this time at the soldier with the flag. I saw him go down as another soldier grabbed the flag out of his hands. By this time the air was getting thick with gunsmoke and it was hard to see just what happened. The soldiers were firing again and again, so we were kept busy dodging bullets that kicked up dust all around. When it cleared a little, I saw the soldiers do a strange thing. Some of them got off their horses in the ford and seemed to be dragging something out of the water, while other soldiers still on horseback kept shooting at us.Suddenly we heard war cries behind us. I looked back and saw hundreds of Lakotas [Sioux) and Shahiyela warriors charging toward us. They must have driven away those other soldiers who had attacked the Hunkpapa camp circle and now were racing to help us drive off these attackers. The soldiers must have seen them too, for they fell back to the far bank of the river, and those still on horseback got off to fight on foot. As warriors rode up to join us at the ridge a big cry went up.
"Hoka hey!" the Lakotas were shouting. "They are going!"
I saw this was true. The soldiers were running back up the coulee and swarming out over the higher ground to the north. Bobtail Horse ran to his pony, shouting to us as we caught our ponies.
"Come on! They are running! Hurry!"
He and I led the massed warriors across the ford, for the others knew we had stood bravely to protect the village and willingly followed us.
Another warrior named Yellow Nose, a Sapawicasa [Ute] who had been captured as a boy by the Shahiyela and had grown up with them, was very brave that day. After we chased the soldiers back from the ford, he galloped out in front of us and got very close to them, then raced back to safety.In a little while all my bullets were gone. But by that time the soldiers lay still. We had killed them all. The battle was over. Soon we were shouting victory yells. When the women and children heard us, they came out on the ridge to strip the bodies and catch some of the big horses the soldiers had ridden. Some women had lost husbands or brothers or sons in the fight, so they butchered the soldiers' bodies to show their grief and anger.I began looking for bullets and weapons in the piles of dead bodies. Near the top of the ridge I saw a naked body and turned it over. The face had little hairs on it and looked like the white man who had worn the buckskin jacket and had lired at me across the ford -- the same one I had shot off his horse. I remembered how close some of his bullets had come, so I thought I would take the medicine of his trigger finger to make me an even better shot. Taking out my knile. I began to cut off that finger.
Just then I heard a woman's voice behind me. I turned to see Meotzi and Yellow Bird and an older Shahiyela woman standing there. The older woman pointed to the while man's body, saying:
"He is our relative."
Then she signed for me to go away. I looked at Meotxi then and smiled, but she didn’t smile back at me, so I wondered if she thought it was wrong for a warrior to be cutting on an enemy's body. I decided she wouldn't be as proud of me if I cut off the white man's finger, and moved away. Pretending to be busy looking for bullets, I glanced back. Meotxi was looking down at the body while the older woman poked her sewing awl deep into each of the white man's ears. I heard her say:
"So Long Hair will hear better in the Spirit Land."
[Note: Cheyenne youth Dives Backward witnessed this scene -- a warrior trying to cut a finger off a dead American who was driven away by two grieving squaws, one Monaseetah and one an old woman with an awl.]
That was the first I knew that Long Hair was the soldier chief we had been fighting and the white man I had shot at the ford...
The tribes had split up after their victory at Little Bighorn. White Cow Bull never saw Meotzi again after that summer. Perhaps because of her, he never took a wife. After that day in Montana I saw the old man several times at Charlie Thunder Bull's cabin near Oglala, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, making three portraits of him before his death in 1942.