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Some of his two friends interfered and the crows went away.
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The Sioux told us that young Red Cloud was crying and asking for mercy from the crows. He was my same age, 18 years old.
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White Wolf, a Cheyenne almost 30 years old, had a repeating rifle, and drawing his weapon from its scabbard at his left side, it was accidentally just discharged.
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The bullet broke his left thigh bone. He finally recovered and is yet living. This was in 1930. He still limps on account of that accidental wound. Those are two just little
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First of all, you know, young red cloud who was wearing a war bonnet and he's supposed to show how cool he is if his horse gets shot. Take that bridle with you. He did not do that.
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And then again, this is an accidental discharge, which it does happen occasionally. It's, it's really bad to have accidental discharge, obviously, especially when you shoot yourself in the leg. Horrible.
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So they stay, they continue moving around and they start to move towards Little Bighorn, this river.
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And back to the book, six Arapaho men came to the Cheyenne camp while we were at this place. They said they were afraid of soldiers as they had killed a white man on Powder River.
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And so now you start to get, and I'm again, I'm kind of, uh, moving quickly right now, but there's now multiple tribes are starting to come together in this, in this location, multiple tribes.
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Each, back to the book, each tribe operated its own internal government. The same as if it were entirely separated from the others. The chiefs of the different tribes met together as equals. There was only one who was considered as being above all others. This was Sitting Bull.
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He was recognized as the one old man chief of all the camps combined.
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Almost all of our northern Cheyenne tribe were with us on Little Big Horn.
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Only a few of our 40 big chiefs were absent. And this is interesting because there's a lot of controversy about how many
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Indians were there, and he, and some people say there wasn't that many. He's saying all, he's saying all, at least all the Cheyenne's were there, and there was more than just the Cheyenne's, so there had to be a bunch of them, a bunch of them there.
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Tribes and chiefs that were there.
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The principal chiefs of the various camps were for the
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The Ogallala's was Crazy Horse, which we all have heard of Crazy Horse. The Miniconju was Lame Deer. Another tribe called Arrows All Gone.
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And they had an important chief called Hump Nose. There was the Blackfeet, which, which, Wooden Leg didn't know who was their chief. And then you had the Cheyenne's. So there's a bunch, I mean a massive number of Native American warriors.
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Talking about their armament. Back to the book. Guns were not plentiful among us. Most of our hunting had been with bows and arrows. Of the Cheyenne's, Two Moons and White Wolf each had a repeating rifle. Some others had single shot breech loading rifles. But there was not much ammunition for the good guns.
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So, they're mostly using bow and arrows, right? That's kind of what they have. And at one point they kind of take their horses and they put them out to graze.
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And they think that they, they had a little, they had gotten a little scrap with the soldiers and they kind of whooped them. Not bad, but they just sort of beat them and it seemed like the soldiers retreated. And so they put their soldiers out, I mean they put their horses out to pasture and it seems like things are g...
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And I'll go back to the book. I had no thought then of any fighting to be done in the near future. We had driven away the soldiers on the upper rosebed seven days ago.
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It seemed likely they would be gone a long time before they would trouble us again. My mind was occupied mostly by such thoughts as regularly are uppermost in the minds of young men.
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I was 18 years old, and I liked girls.
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That night we had a dance. It was an entirely social affair for young people, not ceremonial, not a ceremonial or war dance. So, here he is. They kinda got in a scrap seven days ago. They feel like they're pretty safe. They put their horses out to pasture. And then he starts thinking about the ladies.
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And they basically party through the whole night. Back to the book at the first sign of dawn, the dance ended. And then him and his brother, they, they kind of take off and they go down by the river and fall asleep. And that's the end of their night. Back to the book. In my sleep,
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I dream that a great crowd of people were making lots of noise.
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Something in the noise startled me. I found myself wide awake sitting up and listening. My brother too awakened and we both jumped to our feet. A great commotion was going on among the camps. We heard shooting. We hurried across, we hurried out from the trees so we might see as well as hear. The shooting was somewhere
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It looked as if all the Indians were there. There were running away toward the hills to the westward or down toward our end of the village. Women were screaming and men were letting out war cries.
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Through it all we could hear old men calling, soldiers are here. Young men, go out and fight them. So there they go, they thought they were peaceful, but they're about to get it on.
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And as he talked about before, what does he do to prepare for battle? Here we go back to the book.
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I had a good cloth shirt and I put it on. My old moccasins were kicked off and a pair of beaded moccasins substituted for them. My father strapped a blanket upon my horse and arranged my rawhide laria into a bridle.
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He stood holding my mount. Hurry, he urged me. I was hurrying but I was not yet ready. I got my paints and my little mirror.
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The blue black circle soon appeared around my face. The red and yellow colorings were applied on all skin of the ins- inside the circle. I combed my hair.
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It properly should have been oiled and braided neatly, but my father was again saying hurry. So I just looped a buckskin thong about it and tied it up close to the back of my head to f-
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To float loose from there. My bullets, caps, and powder horn put me into full readiness. In a moment afterward I was on my horse going as fast as I could run to where all the rest of the young men were going. My brother had already gone.
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He got his horse before I got mine, and his dressing was only a buck string shirt, fringed with Crow Indian hair. The hair had been taken from a Crow at a past battle with them.
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The air was so full of dust I could not see where to go. But it was not needful that I see that far. I kept my horse headed in the direction of movement by the crowd of Indians on horseback. I was led out and around and afar.
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The soldiers were on the level valley ground and were shooting with rifles. Not many bullets were being sent back at them, but thousands of arrows were falling among them.
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I went with the throng of Sue until we got beyond and behind the white men, so you got a flank going on. And they're starting to surround the white men. By this time though, they had mounted their horses and were hiding themselves in the timber. A band of Indians were there with the soldiers.
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It appeared they were Crow or Shoshones. Most of the Indians had fled back up the valley, somewhere across east of the river and were riding away over beyond the hills. So there you go. This is what happens. He wakes, gets woken up and gets his war gear on and he's going into battle.
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And interestingly, you know, he talks about there's other Indians that they're fighting, the Crows and Shoshonis, it sounds like most of them are bailing.
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After the book, our Indian crowded down toward the timber where...
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One of the soldiers. More and more of our people kept coming. Almost all of them were Sioux. There were only a few Cheyennes. Arrows were showered into the timber.
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Bullets whistled out of the s- out toward the Sioux and Cheyenne's. But we stayed far back while we extended our curve line further and further around the big grove trees. So they're encircling us.
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Some dead soldiers had been left among the grass and sage brush where they had first fought us. It seemed to me the remainder of them would not live many hours longer.
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Sue, we're creeping forward to set fire to the timber.
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They're gonna set fire to the woods that they're hiding in. Back to the book.
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I was around on that side where they came out. I whirled my horse around and lashed it into a dash to escape from them. All others of my companions did the same, but we soon discovered that they were not following us. They were running away from us. They were going as fast as their tired horses could carry them across...
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We stopped, looked a moment, and then we whipped our ponies into swift pursuit.
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A great thong of, throng of sues were also coming after them. My distant position put me among the leaders in the chase. The soldiers' horses moved slowly, as if they were tired. Ours were very lively. We gained rapidly on them.
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I fired four shots with my six shooter. I do not know whether any of my bullets did harm. I saw Sue put an arrow into the back of a soldier's head. Another arrow went down into his shoulder. He tumbled from his horse to the ground. Others fell dead either from arrows or stabbings or jabbings from
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Horses limped or stat limped or staggered or sprawled out dead or dying. Our war cries and war songs were mingled with the many jeering calls such as, Your only boys you ought not to be fighting. We whipped you in rosebud. You should have brought more crows or shershonies with you to do your fighting.
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He was at the right and I was at the left of the fleeing man. We were lashing him and his horse with our pony whips.
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It seemed not brave to shoot him. Besides, I did not want to waste any of my bullets.
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He pointed back to his revolver. He pointed back his revolver, though, and sent a bullet into Little Bird's thigh. Immediately, I whacked the white man fighter on his head with a heavy Elkhorn handle of my pony whip. The blow dazed him. I seized the rifle strapped on his back. I wrenched it to the ground.
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I grinched it and dragged the looping strap over his head. As I was getting possession of this weapon, he fell to the ground. I did not harm him further. I do not know what became of him.
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But I now had a good soldier rifle, yet I had not any cartridges for it.
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Of these two, one went off to the right, up a small gulch.
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was chased by crooked nose, a Cheyenne, and some other Sioux. The chase was afoot across a wet slough and into some timber northward from where the soldiers had been hidden a few minutes. After many exchanges of shots, after much dodging and shifting of position, the enemy Indian was killed there.
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Just a crazy fight. Just a crazy fight. I mean this is like stuff that you see in western movies. People pulling each other off of horses. Shooting people in the head with bow and arrow from a horse. That's just crazy. And brutal.
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And it, and I'll tell you, there's some really good accounts, and I started to go down this road. So if anybody that's listening is a, is a student of the Battle of Little Bighorn, there's uhm, you know, lots of different
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And as I started to do that, I said, nah, I'm not gonna go down this road of trying to figure out exactly which situation he's talking about. There was multiple small battles out there.
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There was, like I said, Reno and, and, uh, Benteen who survived with their soldiers and they made maneuvers and a lot of people blame them, some people don't blame them, you know, some people say that they should have gone to help, some people say that they didn't have a chance, there's all kinds of those things. And ...
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What's important about this account to me is the reality of the ground combat. That's what, that's what I'm interested in, in this account. And I'm sure maybe
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At some point in my life when I have more time, I would love to marry up the two and say, oh, he must have been in this situation and this must have been this person and this must have been this maneuver. He must have seen this maneuver from the, from the cavalry. It'd be fun to do that, especially go out and walk the...
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Anyways, if you're a person that's fully into this, I'm not going down that road right now.
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Another enemy Indian was behind a little sagebrushed gnoll and shooting at us. His shots were returned.
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I and some others went around and got behind him. See this, I'll tell you what, wooden leg is all about flanking people. You notice that? He's just flanking people all over the place.
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I and some others went around and got behind him. We dismounted and crept toward him. As we came close upon, up to him, he fell. A bullet had hit him. He raised himself up though, and swung his rifle around toward us. We rushed upon him. I crashed a blow of my rifle barrel upon his head. Others beat and stabbed him to...
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It was the same as the one I had taken from the other soldier, but the Indian's gun had a longer barrel.
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One of the Sioux scalped the dead man. Different ones took his clothing. I took nothing except the gun.
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Continuing on, somebody said to me, look yonder, other soldiers. I saw them on a distant hill down the river and on our same side of it. The news of them spread quickly among us, Indians began to ride in that direction.
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And so, they're now going to, again, this is where I didn't want to try and figure out exactly what bottle, but ehh.
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So there's another portion of the battle taking place. I know in my head where he's going, but we'll just say there's, he sees other soldiers to go after. I'm pretty sure this is him going after Custer.
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And as he's going towards this other, towards this other battle that's taking place.
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I gave to him the tobacco I had taken. I showed him my gun and all the cartridges. You have been brave, he cheered me. You have done enough for the day. Now you should rest. No. I want to go and fight the other soldiers. I can fight better now with this gun.
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Your horse is tired, he argued. Yes, but I want to ride the other one. It's a wooden leg.
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He, he had a good morning so far. Got after it. But he sees fighting going on and cause he's a warrior, he says, no, I'm getting back in the game.
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Back to the book. As we approached the place of battle, each one chose his own personal course. All of the Indians had come out on horseback, almost all of them dismounted and crept along the gullies afoot after the arrival near the soldiers. I think that's... The reason I highlighted that is because you got...
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People doing decentralized command. Oh, you see where the battle is? Get there.
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Right? You're not, we don't have to line up, we don't have to march together. You see where the battle is? Get there on your own personal course, make it happen.
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Most of the Indians were working around the ridge now occupied by the soldiers. We were laying down in gullies and behind sage brush hill lots.
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The shooting at first was at a distance, but we kept creeping in closer all around the ridge. Bows and arrows were used more than guns. From the hiding places of the Indians, the arrows could be shot high and long curve to fall upon the soldiers or their horses.
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An Indian using a gun had to jump on up and expose himself long to shoot.
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The arrows falling upon the horses stuck in their backs.
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And cause them to go plunging here and there knocking down the soldier. So this is classic. You know, you think that the, that the rifle is the better weapon.
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The rifle you have to expose yourself to shoot while the Indians are just hunkered down behind a knoll or behind some brush or behind a valley and they're just lobbing like a mortar rounds, thousands of mortar rounds just hitting into where the soldiers are and the soldiers can't even do anything.
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The long distance fighting was kept up for about an hour and a half, I believe. The Indians...
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All the time could see where the soldiers were.
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Because the white men were mostly on a ridge and their horses were with them, but the soldiers could not see our warriors. As they had left their ponies and were crawling through the gullies and the sagebrush. A warrior would jump up, shoot, jerk himself down quickly, and then crawl a little forward.
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A little further forward. All around the soldier ridge, our men were doing this. So not many of them got hit by soldier bullets during this time of fighting. This is beautiful. This is beautiful. This is exactly what, you know, what we teach, what the whole, what the, what the military teaches.
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Individual movement, you know, you shoot, you get up, you get back down, you crawl, you get up again, so the enemy might see you, right when you take a shot, then you duck.
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And then when you pop up again, you're not in the same place. So if you were aiming where they were, they're not there anymore. This is, this is beautiful tactics.
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In a few minutes the warriors were all around these soldiers.
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Then lame ma- lame white man, that's an Indian, lame white man called out, Come. We can kill all of them.
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All around the Indians began jumping up, running forward, dodging down, jumping up again, down again, all the time towards the soldiers. Right away, all the white men went crazy. Instead of fighting us, they turned their guns upon themselves. Almost before we could get to them, every one of them was dead. They killed ...
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The Indians took the guns of these soldiers and used them for shooting at the soldiers on the high ridge. I went back and got my horse and rode around beyond the east end of the ridge. By the time I got there, all the soldiers were dead.
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The Indians told me they had killed only a few of those men and that the men had shot each other and shot themselves. And this is...
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This is very controversial. You know, whether these guys killed themselves. And I don't even know if it's that controversial. It's like straight up most people don't believe that. Uhm, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what the answer is. But we know that one thing we do know, they're all dead.
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