On June 25, 1876, a village of some 5 thousand Lakotas and Cheyennes camped on the Greasy Grass River (today’s Tiny Big Horn) was famously attacked by George Armstrong Custer and his vaunted Seventh Cavalry. The Indians ended up followers of the potent Húnkpapa holy gentleman Sitting Bull, and, like their leader, most of them desired nothing at all to do with white adult males. They basically needed to be still left on your own, to live independent from the Euro-Individuals who’d been steadily encroaching and trespassing upon Lakota lands for many years. With shouts of “Hóka hé!” (Appear on!) and “The Earth is all that lasts!” the Oglala war…
