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

Description

General George Custer’s 1876 attack on a huge encampment of Plains Indians has gone down as the most disastrous defeat in American his.
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.