Visit Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument in Montana. To find out more join us at www.NativeReport.org.
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@mikebeesley31505 жыл бұрын
I had always wanted to go there, in 94 I finally went there I will never forget it ,it was worth the trip.
@fredferd9654 жыл бұрын
@bravo23 delta I've been there twice. The survivors were at the Reno/Benteen hill about 4 miles south of the place where custer died. When you stand at the Reno site, it is peaceful. There is a feeling of completion. But when you go to the place where custer and his men died, there is a feeling of tension in the air, a sense of forboding, as if the ghosts and memories of those who died there, both cavalry and Native Americans, are still fighting, as if it will never end, as if it will go on forever. There is no peace in that place. Restless spirits.
@fredferd9654 жыл бұрын
@bravo23 delta I'm 74 now. First visited the battlefield when I was very young in the early 60's, I think. The Mission 66 project was upcoming, and hadn't been done yet. The tour people wouldn't let you walk the battlefield back then. Later, much older, I was a forensic crime lab guy, what you'd call CSI (though the TV show is a joke) and I visited on vacation. I tried to process the battlefield as if it was a crime scene. Couldn't do it! THAT was way over my head. Too much information, and not enough information. My head exploded! I love history.
@marcellino19564 жыл бұрын
Ive been there 3 times.... all I felt was peace while there
@dennislindqvist84433 жыл бұрын
Beautiful landscape. But sad. I just need to go there before I die. Greetingd from Finland.
@kentbeery86534 жыл бұрын
God Bless the Native American people
@scottg31104 жыл бұрын
Why?
@williamwhitecloud90204 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@williamwhitecloud90204 жыл бұрын
@@scottg3110 because we are the real American Scott who are you ???
@scottg31104 жыл бұрын
Sorry 'chief' but you are no more a 'real' American than the rest of us. You DO realize that the so-called native peoples immigrated here, correct? Much hypothesis and conjecture exists at to if these peoples immigrated from the southern hemisphere or from a possible land-bridge from Asia. So you see, being that you and I were both more here....doesn't mean that either one of us is more 'native' than the other. You just got educated.
@williamwhitecloud90204 жыл бұрын
@@scottg3110 sorry Scot burial a real American the native American were the first to live in this country and iam from the Choctaw tribal nation as is my father his father and was his father before him so to bad Scott your out of luck there boy also my cousin is Barry barton who became tribal leader in 2014 so go fuck your self pack and go back to where your migrant great grandfather was from Europe ok Scott your a well known troll on these pages 😂😅😉
@_Boz2 жыл бұрын
Live in Roundup, Mt and have traveled by the battlefield through Crow Nation numerous times either on Hwy 212 through the Res. Or, I-90 on my way to visit friends in Wyoming. Only stopped once to tour. That was in 2002. Unfortunately, the tragedy of that clash between cultures continues today.
@dencillegg65014 жыл бұрын
May all rest on peace
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
Is your name pencil legg? I have skinny bird legs to. The last time I wore shorts was like 10 years ago and some guy walked up to me and asked "are those your legs are or you riding a chicken? "
@Analyticalinadream3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for video. We will definitely be looking at doing the Tours when we visit August, 2021.
@kneedeepinbluebells5538 Жыл бұрын
The Mountain Crow Grew Wealthy, Powerful And Fierce From Many Battles. They Were A Handsome People As Well. ( see images from the time.). Alas, The Crow Were Driven From Their Beloved Black Hills By The Even MORE Powerful Lakota Tribes; A Form Of Manifest Destiny ...
@patricktumilty63128 ай бұрын
It's a very sad the first time I went to Little bighorn battlefield national it hits you in the heart😢😢😢
@StephenLyons-tl8ie Жыл бұрын
Fascinating!!
@dhall0582 жыл бұрын
Very good video.
@robertwindedahl4919 Жыл бұрын
Praise and honor for all Lakota Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors on that day great respect Aho
@cmadams72 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a new version of this movie out today. The true story. Protecting their way of life is all they were trying to achieve.
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
Until proper credence is given to the Native American accounts, no movie could be anywhere near accurate. Even many the marker stones on the battlefield are spurious. 28 bodies of soldiers were never found but they put up markers for them anyway. The history was written by the losers.
@judynoble62863 жыл бұрын
Planned to go this September but Covid has stopped our trip. Maybe next year.
@firmansyahardikoesoema37394 жыл бұрын
Good morning, greetings from Jakarta, Indonesia. It has been very interesting to know about the battle happened here 146 years ago, and this battle field is very unique in one specific way where they put white marble markers on the battlefield, indicating where they fell in the battle. I wish i could visit the battlefield one day. Thank you
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
Many of the markers are spurious and bear no actual reference to where men died. This has been confirmed by an archaelogical survey. However, at the battlefield of Isandwlana, the cairns mark exactly where the British soldiers fought and died.
@cellis1066 Жыл бұрын
I hope to some day go to this sacred place. Thank you for the stewardship.
@Berniewahlbrinck4 жыл бұрын
I recommend reading Thomas Berger's LITTLE BIG MAN. It's partly fiction, of course, but the description of Custer's Last Stand is very impressive and often based on facts
@scottg31103 жыл бұрын
It's pure rubbish. Anyone that wants to learn about Custer and this battle should read an actual history book.
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
@@scottg3110 ... all written by the losers.
@williamwhitecloud90204 жыл бұрын
We real American people the native American will never forget our history and fight to have our lives free
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
So would you like to go back to living in tee pees without KZfaq in the 21st century? Or would you like KZfaq and a tee pee?
@TheDarkoricle3 жыл бұрын
Attacking other tribes? Not against the idea now.
@RAV19535 жыл бұрын
It is indeed very strange, how some folks think this is something to ridicule or, make fun of.
@dennydeckerful2 жыл бұрын
So the fighting soldiers were basically thrown in a hole in the ground on top of one another. She casually mentions mass grave, almost glosses over it.
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
It's all most enlisted men got until WW2. By the time the mass grave was dug for them, there was nothing left but bones, often just partial skeletons. They couldn't tell who was who even the day after the battle, as the corpses were so badly mutilated. Custer was intact though. He wasn't worth scalping, according to the Native Americans.
@smug85673 жыл бұрын
God Bless that hot looking Park Ranger!
@Baskerville225 жыл бұрын
Movies always show Custer with long, flowing locks. At the Battle of the LBH his hair was short.
@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-19684 жыл бұрын
It was shorter after the battle 🙄🪓🔪
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
@@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 ... as Custer was prematurely balding and had his hair cut short before the battle, he wasn't scapled. None of the warriors thought it was a worthwhile effort. Women did pierce his ear drums with awls, so that he would be able to listen better in the afterlife.
@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 Жыл бұрын
@@louisavondart9178 Ouch...
@dencillegg65014 жыл бұрын
Thank you for keeping the memory of the Greatest American General to ever live,,alive,,Thank You
@fredferd9654 жыл бұрын
If you are reffering to Crazy Horse, I agree with you.
@scottg31104 жыл бұрын
Thank you! General Custer was a great man....and one of the most brave gentleman to have EVER served our nation.
@fellspoint93644 жыл бұрын
Custer was an arrogant, violent opportunist whose actions that fateful day only add to our nation’s legacy of rapacity and greed
@pauloalmeida42404 жыл бұрын
@@scottg3110 custer murder👿😈
@pauloalmeida42404 жыл бұрын
Murder
@tom8011 ай бұрын
The monologue at 5:45 is really good. It was and is a clash of cultures. The Indians had a dream of following the bison around the Great Plains and the White man had a dream of riches through gold mining and agriculture. These dreams did not work together and still don't today although it's not feasible to follow bison herds around today and survive. It has to be said also that both cultures solved their deepest problems through actions of war and that is what led to a lot of violence. The LBH Battlefield is a reflection that people could not get along so many people had to die. It really is senseless. I don't love LBH but I respect it and the people who died there but we need to do a lot better because it reflects on all of our joint failures. The Indians in that they had a warrior culture which was a dead end and the White man in that they couldn't keep a treaty and also solved their problems through violence. It's a shame.
@frankphilipskeets3 ай бұрын
Thank you for your simple, rational analysis. We never do learn, do we? It's the human "tragicomedy" we live. My son & I were chatting just yesterday; I remarked on all the horrendous wars which began because people thought, with amazing stupid arrogance, "Oh, it'll all be over in a few days or weeks at most." Like the American Civil War, WWI, Viet Nam. You could likely mention others. Bellicose leaders & nations overestimate their own power & the enemy's weakness. They fantasize one quick knockout punch and it's all over. Except in reality it doesn't work that way. The ill will and killing just goes on. And on... What a waste.
@johnzajac98492 ай бұрын
After the battle, Cpt. Benteen stated there were 8,000 warriors at the battle site, and Lt. Winfield S. Edgerly reported there were 7,000 warriors at the battle site. Custer stuck his head into a hornet's nest.
@patricktumilty63128 ай бұрын
It's a very very sad place
@bettytraylor85805 жыл бұрын
Mia Tiahoma pray
@danmacalpinbruce25552 жыл бұрын
Id love to have a wig wam
@sigitasbasys20711 ай бұрын
👌👌👌👌👌😐👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@richardbowers36475 жыл бұрын
Some of the land the natives were living on is shown here. The US gov sent soldiers to this place to get the Indians to move. 25 squaws had been shot in the beginning! While Custer attempted to surround the other women & children a battle broke out! In the end the Indians lost the land.
@rexmundi78113 жыл бұрын
No. It was Crow land then and it still Crow land now. The Lakota were trespassing. Crow scouts lead Custer to the village because they hated the Lakota and wanted them off their land.
@waynemoreton77053 жыл бұрын
I have a great admiration for the the First nation peoples and there continuing struggles even to this day for parity and fairness.l am white English and war free in my 74 years on Mother earth.l pass through knowing there is no death but a change of worlds.Many tribes are living a death in the here and now so l know the Great Mystery( Wakan-Tanka) will see that they prevail in the end as they did in the Battle of the Greasy Grass.Puc
@user-jk9vp3vw4x5 жыл бұрын
The crow were on custard side and the Cheyenne and the souix killed Custer loved it
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
Stfu go back to China you covid 19 inventer.
@slantsix63444 жыл бұрын
How many Indian casualties at this battle?
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly it was like anywhere from 125 to 175 native casualties Kia. Now wounded figures aren't included with Kia.
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
Apart from the two wives and three children of Chief Gall, who were murdered in the village in Reno's attack, there were approx 50 warriors killed where Custer was wiped out and 20 or so that attacked Reno and later the Reno/Benteen position. They broke off their attack so as to not lose any more warriors senselessly.
@willbadley47982 жыл бұрын
Custard got what was coming to him
@summertea5455 жыл бұрын
Did they find the bodies of those three soldiers who went in firing into the Natives from the Twilight Zone?
@smug85675 жыл бұрын
You are as silly as I am !
@jacksmith30275 жыл бұрын
They should have taken the tank
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah they had arrows in there butts.
@smug85675 жыл бұрын
1:04 shes a pretty good looking dame !
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
Ride that park ranger boy! Yeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaa!
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
@@leroyhovatter7051 ..grow up, boy.
@wooderdsaunders68014 жыл бұрын
If you go watch out rattle snake everywhere.
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Noooooooooooo!
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
Yep, it's snake country.
@jacque8836 жыл бұрын
I wonder if it's haunted ? ❤️😥🌹
@jacque8836 жыл бұрын
Love and peace!!😊😘💖
@curtiseggemeyer56815 жыл бұрын
Yes, it was so heavy when I was there that I was emotionally moved.
@jerryswallow5 жыл бұрын
there is something there i was there 1976 and alone, could almost hear the fighting..
@fredferd9654 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
I was there something poked me in my butt. I turned around nobody was there it felt like an arrow. I turned and said "you son of a bitch you shot me in the ass!"
@johnandrews35474 жыл бұрын
When will the Lakota return the Regimental Colors of the 7th Cavalry to the United States Army?
@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-19684 жыл бұрын
When will the US government make good for 400 broken treaties with the Native Americans?
@RT-tn3pu4 жыл бұрын
I don't think they should. They defeated Custer.
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
@@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 When will you get over it and move on?
@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-19683 жыл бұрын
@@leroyhovatter7051 When your cities burn and lay in ruins, which shouldn't be too long now. 👎😂👍
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
@@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 Sure OK keep waiting I'm sure it's gonna be any day now.
@smug85675 жыл бұрын
2:54 Bury the hatchet. Smoke um Peace pipe!
@dennisthemenace51504 жыл бұрын
The weak parish. Its life
@Berniewahlbrinck4 жыл бұрын
perish?
@MRSomethin14 жыл бұрын
also remember the mexican involvement in this conflict kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrmgpL2Su5PRfpc.html
@huns123452 жыл бұрын
I visited there,George had to be one of the last people who died with others on top of the hill,cause everyone else became surrounded in a downward slope,over the slope were nothin but far away hills with thousands of Indians coming over,they were in the wrong spot for themselves and the best spot for the Indians,I'm souls sure they were outnumbered 15 to 20 to 1,custer knew this before and died like a untoward foe
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
... Native American accounts are different. They say he was shot off his horse at the thwarted river crossing and his body was carried up the hill slung over a horse. That's why there was no attempt at a retreat. all of the officers were killed early on and no-one gave the order to retreat. They'd lost most of their horses anyway. The markers that run down to Deep Ravine are mostly spurious. The 28 soldiers who tried a breakout there all died in the ravine. Their bodies were never found. Fill from the road making was dumped in there in the 30's and the bodies are now too deep for a backhoe to be able to excavate them. It wasn't a " Last Stand " but a rout that became a buffalo hunt.
@ObservantHistorian3 жыл бұрын
Without going into a lecture, Custer was a mediocre commander whose Civil War reputation as a brave hero was based in no small part on his skill at self-promotion. His tendency as a cavalry commander was to impetuously rush into situations he had no right to escape, and then to manage to cut his way out again. His bravery - what some might rather characterize as recklessness - can't really be questioned. But he wasn't a gifted tactician, and his "Custer luck" both put him in advantageous situations (like blocking Lee's advance at Appomattox), and got him out of stupid situations of his own making more times than he deserved. Custer's only experience as an "Indian fighter" (as pretty much everyone interested in the subject ought to know by now), was a dawn attack on a sleeping village of mostly women and children on the banks of the Washita. His reputation as a great Indian fighter was simply fiction. At the Little Big Horn, in typical fashion, Custer split his forces and blindly attacked, having no idea of the enemy or ground before him. He was too myopic to see the village his scouts had tried to point out to him earlier in the day. His only concern was that the Indians would run and get away: based on his limited experience attacking mainly helpless women and children, he was arrogant enough to think this was the reality before him. Regardless of what one might say about Reno, by following Custer's orders Reno was lucky his command wasn't wiped out in its entirety, before it ever got back across the river, and before Custer's column had even begun to encounter opposition. With Custer's column then even more easily finished off, Benteen would have been ripe for the picking. It was only dumb luck that the entire 7th Cavalry wasn't obliterated that day, due solely to Custer's many limitations as a commander. It was only Reno's actions - his "charge to the rear" - that saved any portion of the command from Custer's recklessness. The problem with making heroes of people like Custer is the same as making heroes of Confederates and the slavers' rebellion. The heroes of the Custer battlefield were the men defending their families, their homes, and their way of life. The heroes who ought to be venerated in every town in the former Confederacy are the 200,000 brave freed black men who fought against the slavers and the slave breeders, to free their families and end the abomination of slavery. With all there is in our shared American history to respect and praise, why do some people make it a point to venerate things that represent both the worst in our history, and the worst in us, as human beings?
@randybullington44922 жыл бұрын
Observant historian eh? I think you are just a blowhard who copies and pastes what ever half truth victors version of history you come across, and then act like you are an expert to be consulted in. If you were truly "observant" (and honest about it) you would acknowledge the fact that the transatlantic slave trade was a God send to the African, because it created a path for that race to obtain a level of advancement and civility that they would have NEVER obtained or developed for themselves in their native continent of Africa! Just like America wouldn't be the country it is today had the Anglo European not come here....plain and simple truth of history that few acknowledge because it offends and doesn't have a feel good factor.
@ObservantHistorian2 жыл бұрын
@@randybullington4492 What a stunningly ignorant and racist comment.
@randybullington44922 жыл бұрын
@@ObservantHistorian no, it's not ignorant or racist at all, but truthful and factual without a bullshit sugar coating! facebook.com/100021660017535/posts/674544976610830/
@dennydeckerful2 жыл бұрын
Grant said that Custer was the one most responsible for winning the Civil War. So there is that
@dennydeckerful2 жыл бұрын
@@ObservantHistorian Anytime somebody calls you a racist, they automatically lose the argument.
@alanmusson87104 жыл бұрын
When you see the vast expanse of land,you wonder why the Indians weren’t left to live their lives?so sad
@TheDarkoricle3 жыл бұрын
I see your point but what was that way of life? Wasn't it blood shed over other tribes? Not defending anyone or trying to attack anyone I'm just questioning the idea of what you said.
@dennydeckerful2 жыл бұрын
There is a video on here by one of the park Rangers that explains it all very well.
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
The US govt. was almost bankrupt. They needed the gold that was in the Black Hills. Pure greed and dirty politics.
@busterbuster8193 Жыл бұрын
Custer was the best and worst of Generals and like most great military generals was highly intelligent - egotistical - risk taker - bold - brave - gutsy - lazer sharp focus - disciplined - natural born leader - and loved "his" country above all else. Most historic, honered and studied generals loose at least a couple battles during their career. No one is 100%. Over his years of service of civil war and calvary Custer lost one battle. Unfortunately he lost his life as well.
@dks138274 жыл бұрын
Indian report !!!
@charlesmorris32243 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your consideration to bad the Indians won the battle but lost the war rip
@terranceeaglefeather52903 жыл бұрын
Custer never stood a chance against us 2,000 warriors vs 260 7th Calvary men
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
If it was only 2000 he could but it was more than double that around 5000.
@johnirish29693 жыл бұрын
@@leroyhovatter7051 Do you understand math?
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
@@johnirish2969 Yeah I do. I said its speculated that anywhere from 2000 to 5000 warriors engaged Custer. Do you understand the English language?
@johnirish29693 жыл бұрын
@@leroyhovatter7051 yes I do. but it is clear you have issues moron
@leroyhovatter70513 жыл бұрын
@@johnirish2969 Wow bruh chill.
@brownbear68193 жыл бұрын
Custer was set up by his own peers.
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
more like his own ego.
@firstonturtleislandnapi55812 жыл бұрын
This story is not accurate…..
@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-19684 жыл бұрын
This tour guide "Louella Brien" (Crow) refers to her own people as "Indians" .. I'm the last person that I would describe as a SJW. But really, this is intolerable, isn't it ?
@nativeredman99403 жыл бұрын
It's ok. You can say it.
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
The only battle where the history was written by the loser. With all the usual inaccuracies.