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On June 25, 1876, a village of some five thousand Lakotas and Cheyennes camped on the Greasy Grass River (today’s Little Big Horn) was famously attacked by George Armstrong Custer and his vaunted Seventh Cavalry. The Indians were followers of the powerful Húnkpapa holy man Sitting Bull, and, like their leader, most of them wanted nothing to do with white men. They simply wanted to be left alone, to live separate from the Euro-Americans who’d been steadily encroaching and trespassing upon Lakota lands for decades. With shouts of “Hóka hé!” (Come on!) and “The Earth is all that lasts!” the...

Five score and forty-five years ago, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, the “Boy General” of the Civil War, and most of his troopers were killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn—or were they? I’ve written a series of comic novels that tell the story of how Custer was actually rescued by an Indian princess, and went on to lead a life, undercover, as a knight-errant in the West. The stories are meant to funny, and driven by action and adventure, but I confess, they have a point. That point is easily summarized by asking what it means to be...

Source materials for "Conversations With Crazy Horse" by Bruce Brown Rain In The Face's Story of the Battle #1 A Hunkpapa Sioux's account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn As told to Dr. Charles Eastman in 1906. Here is an 1894 account, along with the famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face." Note Hunkpapa Sioux war chief Rain In The Face RAIN IN THE FACE'S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN By Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) The noted Sioux warrior, Rain-in-the-Face, whose name once carried terror to every part of the frontier, died at...

In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision interpreted as barring prayer in public schools.

THE BATTLE OF THE WASHITA (November 27, 1868, Indian territory - modern-day Oklahoma) Gregory F. Michno, ENCYCLOPEDIA of Indian Wars 1850-1890, pages 226-227 "On November 12, 1868 , 11 companies of the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George A. Custer, 3 companies of the 3rd Infantry, 1 of the 5th Infantry, 1 of the 38th Infantry, and about 450 wagons set out from Fort Dodgefor Indian territory to seek out hostile Indians. Across a snow-covered landscape Custer followed Indian trails to a 50-lodge Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita River. Early on the frigid morning of 27 November,...

Washington D.C. 8/27/2007 5:20 PM GMT (FINDITT - Top Story) USAElectionPolls.com has an audience of about 67,000 visitors per month according to the latest statistics by Quantcast -- making it the most visited polling website with the exception of RealClearPolitics. The web site has been having an online straw poll for three days on voters' preference for the 2008 election; both Democrats and Republicans are listed. Ron Paul is leading the group of almost 20 candidates with 51%. Even more impressive is that he currently has 1744 votes while the second place candidate Dennis Kucinich has 613 votes -- 18%....

Custer's Foes Memorialized At Little Bighorn Monument To American Indians Erected To Remember Historic Battle POSTED: 7:11 p.m. EDT June 25, 2003 UPDATED: 7:17 p.m. EDT June 25, 2003 LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL MONUMENT, Mont. -- More than a century after Custer fell at the Little Bighorn, the American Indians he was attacking are being memorialized as well. About 4,000 people turned out for the dedication of the first permanent memorial to the Indians who fought on that Montana battlefield on June 25, 1876. On that historic day, Lt. Col. George Custer ordered his forces to attack an Indian...

LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL MONUMENT, Mont. - The words were angry, ugly. But to Tim Lame Woman, they were truth, and they nagged at him to be spoken whenever he passed the grassy battlefield where Lt. Col. George Custer became a legend. On a June day in 1988, Lame Woman marched with other members of the American Indian Movement to the monument to the 7th Cavalry atop Last Stand Hill. They placed at its base a crudely engraved plaque honoring the "Indian patriots who fought and defeated the U.S. Cavalry in order to save our women and children from mass...