Tiger and walked across the Little Bighorn Battlefield, while I shared with him his Grandfather Lionel Kinunwa (Comes Home Swimming) Minniconjou Lakota, my father's Koda, and his account of the Greasy Grass Battle.
Ate Lionel's account of this Battle, that he learned from many Elders who fought in the Battle, is very different from what is shared in mainstream history. I have a tape of Ate Lionel that needs to be transcribed to share the exact details of his perspective on what really happened.
One thing for sure, Custer was killed at the beginning of the battle, when he tried to cross the Little Bighorn. In the end, there were several thousand warriors on horseback that simply ran over those remaining members of the 7th Calvary, that had climbed to the hill, that US history claim was Custer's Last Stand. This is why the conditions of the bodies, with the extreme heat, were so bloated and bruised, they were not able to be identified.
Knowing the vicious character of the US Military who would kill babies, children, pregnant women, elders and anyone else they could, no one had time to climb to the top of the hill to mutilate the bodies of the 7th Calgary, as some history claims.
As soon as the gunfire erupted at the Little Bighorn, those who were not fighting immediately broke camp and left, each on their own predetermined escape route. The rest of the story for another day!
