Battle Of Little Bighorn Research Articles

Red Sabbath: The Battle of Little Bighorn By Robert J. Kershaw

Red Sabbath: The Battle of Little Bighorn By Robert J. Kershaw

Unlocking the past: celebrating historical archaeology in North America

Leading readers to archaeological sites from Canada to the Caribbean and through time from the early Norse voyages to World War II, this book describes compelling discoveries unearthed by archaeologists in search of North America's historical past. Through the work of more than 30 archaeological teams, readers learn about the rich diversity of historical archaeology, exploring the who, what, where, when, how, and why of the discipline. Written for a popular audience and for practitioners of historical archaeology, the tales in Unlocking the Past are organized into five themes. Cultures in Contact unravels the contributions of architecture, landscape, food, dining, burial practices, and other factors to our understanding of everyday life in the past. Challenging and Changing Environments highlights the techniques, resources, and questions that historical archaeologists use to understand the roots of ways of thinking about and acting on the land. Through burial remains left beneath streets and tall buildings, Building Cities portrays urban life in large cities like New York, World Heritage cities like Quebec, and industrial cities like Oakland, California. Making a Living in Rural America explores the rural tradition in North American history as archaeologists read the traces of ancient farms, ranches, potteries, and mills. Cultures in Conflict introduces the archaeology of colonial wars, the U.S. Civil War, the epic Battle of Little Bighorn, and World War II.

The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains

Plains Indians have long occupied a special place in the American imagination. Both the historical reality of such evocative figures and events as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Sacajewea, and the Battle of Little Bighorn and the lived reality of Native Americans today are often confused and conflated with popular representations of Indians in movies, paintings, novels, and on television. Ingrained stereotypes and cultural misconceptions born of late nineteenth– and early twentieth–century images of the romantic nomad and the marauding savage have been surprisingly tenacious, obscuring the extraordinary cultural and linguistic diversity of the dozens of tribes and nations who have peopled the Great Plains. Here in one volume is an indispensable guide to the extensive ethnohistorical research that, in recent decades, has recovered the varied and often unexpected history of Comanche, Cheyenne, Osage, and Sioux Indians, to name only a few of the tribal groups included. From the earliest archaeological evidence to the current experience of Indians living on and off reservations, a wealth of information is presented in a clear and accessible way. The history of the Plains Indians has been a dynamic one of continuous change and adaptation as groups split and recombined to form new social orders and cultural traditions. Contact with Europeans and the introduction of trade in horses, slaves, furs, and guns dramatically altered native societies internally and influenced relations between different groups. In the face of pressures resulting from America's westward expansion throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the extinction of the bison, the imposition of reservation life, and the assimilationist policies of the U.S. federal government—the native peoples of the Great Plains have struggled to preserve their distinct cultures and reorient themselves to a new world on their own terms. The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains is divided into four parts. Part I presents an overview of the cultures and histories of Plains Indian people and surveys the key scholarly questions and debates that shape this field. Part II serves as an encyclopedia, alphabetically listing important individuals and places of significant cultural or historic meaning. Part III is a chronology of the major events in the history of American Indians in the Plains. The expertly selected resources guide in Part IV includes annotated bibliographies, museum and tribal Internet sites, and films that can be easily accessed by those wishing to learn more. The third in a six-volume reference series, The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture, The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains is an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and researchers.

Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

General George Custer's 1876 attack on a huge encampment of Plains Indians has gone down as the most disastrous defeat in American history. Much less understood is how disastrous it was for the victors, the Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Sitting Bull: within fifteen years all Native Americans were confined to reservations, their culture in ruins. James Welch poignantly resurrects their side of the story from beneath a mountain of myth and misinterpretation, relating in masterful prose the pride and desperation of a people stripped of treaty rights and hounded from ancestral hunting grounds into wretched reservations. Through this critical missing piece that tells the Indian side of the story, Killing Custer rethinks the meaning of the Little Bighorn for a multicultural society.

Visions and voices: Native American painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art

Native American Painting of the twentieth century has its origins in the decoration of prehistoric pottery, clothing, wood, and hide objects, and in pictographs and petroglyphs painted or inscribed on rocky hillsides. After Native contact with European Americans, Indian art absorbed influences from white culture, and the materials used for painting began to include papers, inks, pencils, and commercial pigments. The 484 paintings shown in this book, all from the collection of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reflect many major influences on Indian art. From a ledger-style painting of the Battle of Little Bighorn (c. 1892) to a canvas that expresses a Native view of the Vietnam War (c. 1971), the range of imagery is amazingly broad. The text of the catalogue section of the book comes primarily from the actual words of artists represented in the collection, and those of their friends and families, gathered through interviews. Together, these narratives and the beautifully reproduced body of paintings tell the fascinating story of Native American painting in modern America.

Back to the Little Bighorn

Fillings found in the skull of a 7th Cavalry trooper killed 118 years ago in the Battle of Little Bighorn show sophisticated, well-executed dentistry. Some fillings are examples of early preventive dentistry, using a variety of materials and techniques typical of 19th-century cavity preparation. Dental care most likely was delivered by a private dentist or performed in part at a dental school in the East or Midwest, in a large city or at West Point. The logical, deductive process suggests an identification: Cpl. George Lell. Without additional corroborative documentation, however, this is speculation. Whoever he was, the cavalryman was older and shorter and had better oral care and health than most of the comrades who died with him in 1876. He used tobacco, most likely by chewing it. His remains provide a glimpse into the reality of life and death, dental care and hygiene of the mid-19th century.

An Oral History Program on the Battle of Little Bighorn from the Perspective of the Indian Descendants

The general objective of this research is to develop an oral history program on the Battle of Little Bighorn from the perspective of the Northern Cheyenne Indian descendants of this famous encounter with General George A. Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry.

An Oral History Program on the Battle of Little Bighorn from the Perspective of the Indian Descendants

The general objective of this research is to develop an oral history program on the Battle of Little Bighorn from the perspective of the Northern Cheyenne Indian descendants of this famous encounter with General George A. Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry. The specific objectives are: 1. Complete oral history interviews with no less than 15 informants of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, who shall be selected by the National Park Service; 2. Transcribe all interviews in the form of typed manuscripts; and 3. Develop a cross-referenced retrieval index system. An optional objective is to provide training in oral history methodology for personnel identified by the National Park Service who might continue the program.

Custer's Last Fight

ON MONDAY, June 26, 1876, New York Herald printed two dispatches from Wyoming Territory filed in Cheyenne day before. One informed readers of Herald that courier who left Goose Creek last Monday with duplicate Herald specials and orders to reach Fetterman Wednesday night has not yet reported and is supposed to have fallen into hands of Indians. The other Cheyenne dispatch meant more than it seemed to say, after occasional manner of press flashes. It read: Seven thousand pounds of gold quartz arrived here yesterday from Deadwood. Because there were miners in Black Hills there were Sioux on warpath in Dakota and Montana. A bit of Army intelligence in Herald that day was to effect that sundry army promotions had resulted in making the dashing cavalry George A. Custer, senior Lieutenant Colonel in that arm of service, and therefore, first on list for promotion. It was not until Thursday, July sixth, that New York Times shocked placid East with news of a disaster to American arms, somewhere in Indian country. The news came by a devious route. Muggins Taylor, a scout with General Gibbon, told someone at Stillwater post, and Stillwater man passed it along to Helena, Montana, Herald. From there it dropped swiftly to Salt Lake City and Salt Lake put it on wire for New York. No matter how crooked route by which it came, news was bad. Custer, the dashing cavalry leader, first now on list for promotion, lieutenant colonel and leader of Seventh Cavalry in campaign against Sioux, had been killed, and seventeen of his officers with him. The dispatch added a touch of disturbing realism by naming Lieutenant son of General Crittenden, among killed. The next day American world learned that news was true, and worse than first belated echo. They knew that tragedy had occurred somewhere in Montana near a river with quaint name of Little Big Horn, a branch of Yellowstone, and that not only Custer and his officers, but all men of five companies of Seventh Cavalry regiment had died on a bare ridge above river with curious name. And that was way that report of Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer's Last Stand, classic act of long drama of Indian's losing war with whites, came to Atlantic seaboard. It was greatest Indian fight-and last. It was as though fate had decreed that Indian should