Crazy Horse's Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

An article about Crazy Horse's account as it appeared in the Bismarck Tribune, June 11, 1877.

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"Garry Owen" and "The Girl I left Behind" are performed by the Brass Mounted Army. Both songs are used here with the kind permission of Mr. James A. Ottevaere.

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[ceafexftw]

What's the intro music? Cheers.

[FortAbrahamLincoln]

Garry Owen.

[LastPipeWoman]

white people have never been able to tell the truth and as obvious it is they do not have the ability to be honest. As much as they have tried to annihilate theindigenous people, the greater power has always been for the indigenous people. WE WILL BE FOREVER.

[jbeTV1]

Is it not true that Custer- the great indian fighter- only had one "victory" on the plains? That one being a route of women and children and old people at Washita river?

[doubletapcracklepop]

@lakota66 white from spain, france, freckle face white skin spanish??

What treatment did native americans recieve from these two white groups.. Just wish that story of hell were told of slavery .......... before the other whites freed themselves from the british..

[mgaduris]

Custer lead the Michigan Brigade in several important battles during the American Civil War and his units played a critical role in these engagements. He was a Civil War hero. The killing of women and children - such as was practiced by German forces during the Second World War - is criminal.

[lakota66]

oops dear friend

you are writing words not belonging one to the other! when you were escaping from british rules no lakota knew that washitsus were around.

do you know where your ancestors come from? why they left their home? perhaps their land was stolen by ignorrant white people? if you are smart enough to study about this, good things could happen to you. white country allowing a black man to be your president??? you are so lost in your meanings. poor soul already.

best to you.

[rapiddominace]

wow, 7000 warriors, never heard that number

[joey513ja]

@Emrald70 yea thats true but ur putting a bad spin on everything. so ur only telling half truths. All other countries treated blacks alot worst then we did. The American Civil WAr. The North fought and died so they can be free. They didnt even serve in WWII. And if we treated them so bad, why is this the only white country to allow a black man as their president? We did drive the indians off our lands because they harassed us when we were trying to escape the british rule.

[Spenner56]

Trivial information : Custer was armed with 2 British Bulldog revolvers,not Colts. His hair had been cut short a few days earlier.

Custer graduated from West Point 34th out of a class of 34.

He was court-martialled in 1867 for disobeying orders,treating his men cruelly and abandoning two of them to the Indians.Reinstated the following year,he massacred 103 Cheyenne (including women and children) and earned from the Indians the epithet "Squaw-killer". (The Guiness Book of military Blunders).

[DonMeaker]

Custer didn't discover the gold. He was a soldier, not a prosepector.

[Emrald70]

u guys can debate all u want but i know where i stand

the Americans claim to be a free country with opportunity for all races

but they drove the indians off their lands for money, treated blacks as horribly as every other white country, and are this very moment invading eastern lands so they can get oil and thus more money

capitalism means "money is everything" and thats what drives theri government, money

[rossman1rb]

We should have left the Sioux alone and made their reservation the whole state of S. Dakota. If Custer didnt discover gold there, this whole debacle never would have happened. We ran all over the place kicking the Native Americans around for so long IMO it was about time they returned the favor.