CONTROLLED INSANITY

For some reason I find this easier to believe than ” Hollywoods” story. Custer’s last stand or was it?

George Armstrong Custer poses with his Indian scouts during the Black Hills expedition of 1874. The man pointing to the map was named “Bloody Knife,” a member of the Cree tribe. Photograph by William Illingworth.

(Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument [4321]) source

The story as told to Russel Means by his grandmother:

” He had a grandmother, lovingly named Grandma Twinkle Star (for her habit of singing Twinkle Twinkle to her grandchildren) who converted to Christianity but shared some family history with Russell.  Her own mother had been a young child when her grandmother grabbed a cooking implement and chased Custer at the Greasy Grass.  This was where Custer died and while only those present will know for certain how things happened and why, Grandma Twinkle Star had a different approach than most historians will share.  It has been widely accepted that Custer died valiantly during battle and that the Indians held him in such high regard or respect they did not disturb his body where it lay.  From her mother’s account, none of the Lakota wanted to soil their hands by even touching the vile filth that was Custer and they witnessed his suicide as they ran after him, yelling and screaming for him to leave.  They wanted him to return to his government and tell of his defeat, they wanted him to explain the loss of his entire regiment, many to suicide.  These men had personally been responsible for the mutilation and deaths of enough native people, they feared being caught and took their lives instead.  Suicide can be the ultimate act of cowardice, and I see it a fitting end to the worst kind of coward that Custer was. ” Source

Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota warrior, mystic and chief. “If the Great Spirit has chosen any one to be the chief of this country,” he once told a delegation of U. S. Senators, “it is myself.”

Gall, a Hunkpapa Lakota Chief whose coordinated attack with Crazy Horse crushed George Armstrong Custer’s troops at the Little Bighorn. “My heart was bad that day,” he later said, because he fought with the memory that army bullets had killed his two wives and three of his children.