General George Armstrong Custer’s defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn is well known through U.S. military sources and Lakota and Cheyenne narratives, but little has been heard from the Indians who fought beside Custer - the Arikara scouts. Now their eyewitness reports on Custer’s campaigns from 1874 through 1876 are told in The Arikara Narrative of Custer’s Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the result of interviews with nine scouts by Orin G. Libby in 1912. Originally forty strong, the Arikaras scouted in advance of the U.S. Army for Custer and Reno, reporting enemy Indian movements and seeking to capture their horses. Their accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn reveal much about why Custer failed - indeed, the Arikaras went into battle believing the Sioux medicine was so strong that defeat was inevitable.
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Orin G. Libby was director of the North Dakota State Historical Society and an early practitioner of Indian Oral history.
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History from the other side.
by James P. Zaworski The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign is an important work of ethnography and of American history. The American-Plains Indian War was a tragic period in our history, and the story needs to be told from both sides. For many years, the Native American accounts were discounted, ignored, and otherwise disregarded. This book puts forth an interesting view from the Arikara, allied to the United States against the Sioux and Cheyenne. It was originally published a century ago, and republished recently. It is a good read for historians, ethnographers, anthropologists, and enthusiasts of this era in history.
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Rarely have Indians had the opportunity to tell in their own words the story of their participation in a significant historical event, and this reprint of The Ankara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas, June, 1876, is important on that account, apart from the events described. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lone tepee, dry coulee, seven scouts, older scouts, four scouts, other scouts, pony herd, bad lands, two scouts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Young Hawk, Red Bear, Red Star, Bloody Knife, Bob-tailed Bull, Strikes Two, Fort Lincoln, Powder River, Forked Horn, Little Brave, Little Sioux, Custer's Last Battle, Boy Chief, Black Fox, Red Foolish Bear, Little Big Horn, Tongue River, Elizabeth Custer, Bull Head, Tall Bear, Howling Wolf, United States, One Feather, Sitting Bull, Crooked Horn New!
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Rarely have Indians had the opportunity to tell in their own words the story of their participation in a significant historical event, and this reprint of The Ankara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas, June, 1876, is important on that account, apart from the events described. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lone tepee, dry coulee, seven scouts, older scouts, four scouts, other scouts, pony herd, bad lands, two scouts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Young Hawk, Red Bear, Red Star, Bloody Knife, Bob-tailed Bull, Strikes Two, Fort Lincoln, Powder River, Forked Horn, Little Brave, Little Sioux, Custer's Last Battle, Boy Chief, Black Fox, Red Foolish Bear, Little Big Horn, Tongue River, Elizabeth Custer, Bull Head, Tall Bear, Howling Wolf, United States, One Feather, Sitting Bull, Crooked Horn New!
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- "Boots and Saddles" Or, Life in Dakota With General Custer by Elizabeth B. Custer on 14 pages
- My Friend the Indian by James McLaughlin on page 101, and page 139
- Spotted Horse by Henry Tall Bull in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Black Hills by Richard Irving Dodge in Front Matter, and page 49
- James Coleman (October Files) by George Baker in Back Matter
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