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Battle Of Little Bighorn Essay

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There are accounts and very detailed and differences that you can go back and account on dealing with the Famous battle that occurred near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. This place where was a famous place which caused a famous battle that caused bloodshed and death among the people of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors versus federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. This battle is one of the major battles of the American Indians versus the United States army in history. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was also the most successful action fought by the American Indians against the United States Army in the West. It was considered an effort by the United States Government to force the Sioux tribes onto …show more content…

In this reading it talks about after the battle, the Indians came through and stripped the bodies and mutilated all the uniformed soldiers, believing that the soul of a mutilated body would be forced to walk the earth for all eternity and could not ascend to heaven. Strangely they stripped Custer's body and cleaned it but did not scalp or mutilate it. He had been wearing buckskins instead of a blue uniform, and some believe that the Indians thought he was not a soldier and so, thinking he was an innocent, left him alone. Because his hair was cut short for battle, others think that he did not have enough hair to allow for a very good scalping. Immediately after the battle, the myth emerged that they left him alone out of respect for his fighting ability, but few participating Indians knew who he was to have been so respectful. (1876) As in the other Article of The Battle of Little Bighorn an Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse recorded in pictographs and text at the Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881 it talks about the Indians when they got done killing the Army they just took the guns and cartridges off the dead soldiers and went to the hill on which the soldiers were, surrounded and fought them with the guns and cartridges of the dead soldiers. They really didn’t do anything spiritual or in a pinnacle sense to the soldier’s bodies in this eye witness

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