![]() ![]() This chapter reproduces several views of the battle by people who lived through it and told their stories in later life: an Arikara scout for the Seventh Cavalry a Cheyenne warrior a Sioux council chief a Sioux who was fourteen years old at the time and a Sioux woman who recalled the battle from the viewpoint of the village the soldiers attacked. Yet the enduring image of the last stand - promoted and perpetuated by generations of writers, artists, and movie makers - is one created by people who were not there. The image of Custer and his gallant band surrounded by hordes of Indian warriors has served as a symbol of Indian-white conflict, of “civilization” battling “savagery,” of America’s frontier identity. Few moments in American history are as clearly etched in the popular imagination as the last stand of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry. ![]() Few conflicts in American history are more famous than the Battle of the Little Big Horn, or the Greasy Grass as the Sioux called it. ![]()
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