The Times uses the highest estimate of indian dead of course.
“The end result was that some 39 US soldiers were killed along with somewhere between 146 and 300 Indians, depending on the source. William Peano, a member of the burial party who was half Sioux himself, recorded the bodies of 102 men and women of adult age, 24 old men, 7 old women, six boys between five and eight, and seven babies under two. That’s far fewer than the more than 300 that some people claim.”
Perpetual victimhood requires bigger numbers and if you repeat it enough, it becomes the “offical” number no matter what records there are.