“…And together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“I shall have glory by this losing day.” — William Shakespeare
“Oyate kin ninpi kta ca lecamu yelo” (“I do this so that the people may live.”) — Lakota song
“My mind was occupied mostly by such thoughts as are regularly uppermost in the minds of young men. I was eighteen years old, and I liked girls.” — Wooden Leg
To the Lakota people, the Black Hills of South Dakota were — and still are — "the heart of everything that is." To the United States, they were a goldmine, and Manifest Destiny’s next target. It was for the Black Hills that the Lakota went to war against the United States for the last time.
In this episode:
When he is not attacking camps full of women and children, Custer is a sensitive guy who cries at the theater
How Grant, Sheridan, and Co. engineered their own version of the Gulf of Tonkin incident
Frodo, the destiny of Middle Earth and Sitting Bull
Custer decides to challenge Grant over corruption
Lost in presidential dreams, Custer probably never realized he was being set up
An American army that wasn’t really American
A soldier’s scalp in an abandoned village
The Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother
Cross-dressing Crow warriors
Custer: “Why are you doing all this?”
Half Yellow Face: “Because you and I are going home today—by a trail that is strange to both of us.”
This summer I will be part of a tour of the Little Bighorn and relevant sites across Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota organized by www.geeknationtours.com Check out the details of the tour at http://geeknationtours.com/tours_post/signature-battlefield-series-the-battlefield-of-little-big-horn/
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