Custer's Last Stand: Road Trip to Little Bighorn History

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<p>People don't know exactly how Custer was killed, but they do say</p>
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<p>the Buffalo calf woman was the person who knocks Custer from his horse</p>
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<p>welcome to talk with history.</p>
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<p>I want you to picture the sun.</p>
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<p>Hanging low on the horizon, casting, a warm summer glow over the vast expanse.</p>
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<p>Of the great Plains.</p>
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<p>Tense, stillness in the air broken only by the distant echoes of hooves and</p>
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<p>the soft rustling of Prairie grass.</p>
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<p>And the heart of this sprawling landscape, two worlds stood poised to collide</p>
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<p>one driven by a fierce desire to push, suppose it intruders back to lands.</p>
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<p>They didn't desire.</p>
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<p>In other bound, by a fierce determination to defend their ancestry and way of life.</p>
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<p>The battle of Little Bighorn loomed on the horizon and impending clash of</p>
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<p>warriors and cultures that would forever etch its name into the annals of history.</p>
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<p>So Jen.</p>
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<p>We got to visit Little Bighorn all the way up in Montana, where my family is from.</p>
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<p>Let's talk about Little Bighorn and Custer's last stand.</p>
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<p>.</p>
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<p>This area gets like three different names, so let's make</p>
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<p>sure we're hitting all the names.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>So it's, it's the battle of Little Bighorn.</p>
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<p>The the American Indians?</p>
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<p>No.</p>
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<p>As the battle of greasy grass.</p>
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<p>And it also has become.</p>
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<p>Kind of synonymous in American history as Custer's last stand.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So it's kind of these, all three of these events is the same.</p>
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<p>Event.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And it's partly because Custer became relatively well-known</p>
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<p>during the American civil war.</p>
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<p>It really, I think this battle kind of brought his fame about the most, which is</p>
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<p>why it kind of there's those three names</p>
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<p>with it.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>I mean, so.</p>
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<p>Great death.</p>
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<p>Lives in infamy.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
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<p>And I don't think of Custer would have.</p>
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<p>Died.</p>
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<p>He would have been as famous today.</p>
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<p>If he had lived.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So I think it's this battle.</p>
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<p>It's this last great victory of the American Indians.</p>
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<p>It's this basically this face-off between.</p>
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<p>You can think of it as a.</p>
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<p>The west meets the natives, this meeting of these two.</p>
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<p>It's these clashes</p>
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<p>with clash of cultures, cultures.</p>
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<p>That's exactly who our meeting and then.</p>
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<p>The culture that you don't think will win.</p>
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<p>The one that hasn't.</p>
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<p>You know, it doesn't have the advanced technology is the one that is</p>
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<p>victorious.</p>
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<p>I mean, it's kind of your classic underdog story, right?</p>
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<p>It's.</p>
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<p>It's the big kid on the block comes through, assuming they can just</p>
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<p>kind of do whatever they want.</p>
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<p>And all of a sudden they get punched right in the mouth.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>You know, and then that's what happens.</p>
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<p>So set the stage for where we're at.</p>
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<p>You know, maybe how we got out there and kind of what, what</p>
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<p>was going on at that time.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>So this is M 1876.</p>
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<p>So let's think about 10 years after the civil war.</p>
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<p>This is where Custer has made his name.</p>
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<p>He was integral during the surrender.</p>
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<p>And we've talked about him before.</p>
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<p>And so he's been in the army now for a while, right?</p>
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<p>He's he's gone through the civil war.</p>
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<p>He's seen some battle.</p>
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<p>He survived.</p>
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<p>He's victorious on the union side.</p>
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<p>And now he's part of this Indian campaign, basically.</p>
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<p>That's what they call it.</p>
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<p>Moving towards The west to To basically.</p>
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<p>I get the land for people who are ready to do Western expansions</p>
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<p>for settlers, Oregon trail.</p>
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<p>This is all this time.</p>
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<p>This is the time right after the civil war, where people are</p>
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<p>homesteading moving out and with the American Indians on the land.</p>
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<p>And their idea of land is not so much property and ownership.</p>
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<p>It's just to live off of.</p>
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<p>The Western culture is looking to put them on certain areas for them to stay</p>
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<p>because there's just encroachments and a lot of hostility between white</p>
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<p>settlers and the American Indians.</p>
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<p>And if, if you watch our video, one of the things I put in the</p>
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<p>beginning was like a timeline, right?</p>
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<p>You.</p>
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<p>Kind of, to kind of give people a picture of what was going on.</p>
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<p>And, and one of the things that I tried to stress and point out was</p>
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<p>there was the treaty of Fort Laramie that had happened a few years prior.</p>
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<p>This.</p>
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<p>Was it, is that correct?</p>
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<p>Oh, yeah,</p>
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<p>that's correct.</p>
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<p>But it happened in 18 68, 18 68.</p>
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<p>So not even 10 years.</p>
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<p>Not even 10 years.</p>
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<p>And then really what, what happened?</p>
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<p>And you can kind of go into more details was in the black Hills.</p>
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<p>And if you think black Hills think Mount Rushmore.</p>
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<p>In that area.</p>
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<p>People found gold.</p>
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<p>The white sellers started coming in and pushing the Indians out.</p>
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<p>And then you just were like, Hey, this is our land.</p>
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<p>You guys just gave this to us slightly.</p>
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<p>A little while ago, what's going on.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that's a good cliff notes version.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So let's, let's just explain a little bit more.</p>
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<p>So Fort Laramie is a spot on the Oregon trail.</p>
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<p>It is a army base.</p>
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<p>It is a location where as people are coming out and settling,</p>
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<p>there's talking about we're coming across American Indians.</p>
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<p>They're killing us.</p>
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<p>We are having hostilities with them.</p>
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<p>What can you do about this?</p>
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<p>Okay, let's go out the army, the Calvary there, Fort Laramie, let's</p>
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<p>go out and kind of get these people together in their tribes and put them</p>
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<p>in places where they will be safe.</p>
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<p>For themselves.</p>
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<p>And also the Americans, the white settlers will be safe coming out.</p>
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<p>So the treaty of Fort Laramie is these leaders of these tribes have come to</p>
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<p>Fort Laramie in 1868 and had agreed upon certain areas that they will stay.</p>
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<p>And like you mentioned, the Lakota Sioux have agreed to the black</p>
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<p>Hills area as their reservation.</p>
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<p>And then you get the Crow.</p>
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<p>Who have agreed upon the Little Bighorn area and that's named after a</p>
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<p>river there and a river for basically Westerners is a little bighorn than</p>
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<p>the river for the American Indian.</p>
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<p>This is greasy grass.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>And that's why that battle's called that.</p>
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<p>That that has been agreed upon as Crow reservation.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>And so this is all decided upon and the treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.</p>
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<p>So then like you had said, 1874 gold is discovered in the black</p>
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<p>Hills and the Lakota Sioux.</p>
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<p>Are.</p>
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<p>Living there.</p>
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<p>This is their land.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>Well, all these Westerners come in to make their fortunes.</p>
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<p>And we talked about wild bill Hickok coming in to do that.</p>
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<p>And Deadwood and Custer is supposed to.</p>
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<p>Be enforcing this treaty and he's not, he's letting the people come in.</p>
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<p>Also custom wants to make his fortune to.</p>
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<p>So the Lakota Sioux are mad, because this is our land.</p>
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<p>And now almost all of it has been taken.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>No one's enforcing this treaty.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>They, they definitely enforce the treaty to keep us on the reservation,</p>
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<p>but they sure as heck aren't enforcing the treaty to keep the</p>
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<p>white settlers are for our land.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>So we're just going to move west.</p>
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<p>And as they move west, they move into the Crow reservation and.</p>
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<p>So I want to start like this understanding that the Lakota,</p>
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<p>Sioux and Cheyenne have kind of encroached on the Crow reservation.</p>
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<p>And so the crow.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>People.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:10</time>
<p>They kind of want to be left</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:12</time>
<p>alone.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:12</time>
<p>Yeah, I mean, If you think about it nowadays, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:15</time>
<p>I was trying to kind of picture this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:17</time>
<p>It'd be like, you know, Taken all of New York and the new</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:20</time>
<p>Yorkers plopping them in Chicago.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:24</time>
<p>There are everybody's Americans, but all the P the Chicagoans are going to be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:28</time>
<p>like, what are you doing here, workers?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:30</time>
<p>Workers like you guys shouldn't be here.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:31</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:32</time>
<p>So</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:32</time>
<p>there's conflict.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:33</time>
<p>It's conflict.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:33</time>
<p>So at the beginning of 1876, America government has renegotiated</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:40</time>
<p>the reservation area because of the gold and the black Hills.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:44</time>
<p>And they've telled sitting bull and crazy horse who are the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:46</time>
<p>two liters of Lakota Sioux.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:49</time>
<p>To come and let's renegotiate your reservations and we'll break up</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:53</time>
<p>this large reservation of black Hills into six smaller reservations.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:57</time>
<p>But they don't show up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:59</time>
<p>They don't come.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:00</time>
<p>They're like, no, this is wrong.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:02</time>
<p>We've already agreed to the treaty of Fort Laramie and we're just going to move</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:05</time>
<p>with our people to where good hunting is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:08</time>
<p>And that was in on long, the river of greasy grass.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:10</time>
<p>Yeah, that's right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:11</time>
<p>Good antelope have heard, you mentioned like there is a large antelope</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:14</time>
<p>here and so then they don't show up in the beginning of 1876.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:19</time>
<p>This is the Army's job now to go find them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:23</time>
<p>And bring them back now.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:24</time>
<p>They broken this lodge reservation up into six smaller ones.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:27</time>
<p>And we've talked about standing rock.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:29</time>
<p>Is one of those.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:30</time>
<p>Some we know that one today, that's one of the six that they've broken</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:33</time>
<p>up into the South Dakota area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:35</time>
<p>So when you think of South Dakota area, that's the Lakota Sioux area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:39</time>
<p>And then we got the Crow reservation over in Montana.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:42</time>
<p>And just to kind of paint the picture for those listening, right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:45</time>
<p>We we spent, you know, a couple of weeks.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:48</time>
<p>Out kind of driving that whole area where all through Colorado and South Dakota, we.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:53</time>
<p>I mean, it's a Little Bighorn.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:54</time>
<p>So the Southern part of Montana.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:56</time>
<p>And there they are relatively different landscapes across all of them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:00</time>
<p>Like the black Hills.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:03</time>
<p>It's it's gorgeous area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:04</time>
<p>It's wooded.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:05</time>
<p>It's hilly it's.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:06</time>
<p>I mean, it's really, really nice mountainous.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:08</time>
<p>It's very, it's much more mountainous than, than I kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:11</time>
<p>of initially had thought.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:13</time>
<p>I'm not having spent a ton of time out there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:15</time>
<p>So if you're listening.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:16</time>
<p>You can think about these, these native Americans who were living in the black</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:20</time>
<p>Hills and get pushed out, think dead wood and the kind of little bit of a gold rush</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:25</time>
<p>before the true kind of 49 gold rush.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:28</time>
<p>And then all of a sudden they're moving out to a much more Plains,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:30</time>
<p>like great Plains type area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:32</time>
<p>So Little Bighorn in the Southern Montana.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:35</time>
<p>It's not these massive mountains that are looming right there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:38</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:39</time>
<p>You're along a river, a little more like think great Plains.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:42</time>
<p>That's kind of a little bit more what it's, what it's like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:44</time>
<p>So just to kind of paint the picture for those listening.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:47</time>
<p>There were multiple different native Americans from multiple different</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:52</time>
<p>areas, just used to different things.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:54</time>
<p>And they're out there just kind of trying to find a place where, you know,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:57</time>
<p>the white sellers will let them live.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:59</time>
<p>I mean, I can imagine how incredibly frustrating and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:03</time>
<p>angry they could have been.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:04</time>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:05</time>
<p>And they've kind of joined.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:07</time>
<p>Join with the Cheyenne.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:09</time>
<p>And they've joined with the Arapaho.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:10</time>
<p>So you think it's Lakota, Sioux.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:12</time>
<p>The Dakota Sioux, this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:14</time>
<p>It's kind of a breakdown of the Sioux.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:16</time>
<p>tribe broken down.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:18</time>
<p>It was broken into three separate.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:19</time>
<p>And then you got this Cheyenne, the Northern Cheyenne and the Arapaho.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:23</time>
<p>And they're all kind of encroaching in the Crow territory.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:27</time>
<p>And so the Crow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:28</time>
<p>Asks for the Army's help.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:30</time>
<p>And so you get, again, these a little skirmishes it's kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:34</time>
<p>start, you got the battle of Rosebud that happens in June 17th.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:39</time>
<p>Of 1876 and then you're going to get battled.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:41</time>
<p>Big battle of Little Bighorn and on June 25th.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:44</time>
<p>So I'm not even about a week, 10 days later.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:47</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:49</time>
<p>And so you get these army generals who are like, let's go get 'em together, but they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:54</time>
<p>just can't seem to get on the same page.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:57</time>
<p>So for Rosebud, you get a guy who comes out, cook, who is coming</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:02</time>
<p>from the south area and he hits a bunch of Lakota Cheyenne.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:06</time>
<p>And they just push him back and again, that's kind of like probably</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:10</time>
<p>reinforces them for the big horn.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:13</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:13</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:14</time>
<p>It gives them the confidence</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:15</time>
<p>gives us the confidence and I talk about Buffalo calf woman.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:19</time>
<p>Because she is integral in both battles.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:22</time>
<p>Battle Rosebud for the Cheyenne is called battle where the girl saves her brother.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:28</time>
<p>And we get a lot of this oral.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:29</time>
<p>American Indian history and especially it's important in the battle of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:33</time>
<p>little bighorn but battle Rosebud.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:36</time>
<p>She rides out and saves her brother.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:37</time>
<p>Her brother is called, comes in sight and comes In Sight Has his</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:40</time>
<p>horse shot from underneath him?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
<p>And she rides out and, and he runs and she grabs him and puts him on</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:47</time>
<p>the horse and people kind of stop and watch this happening because it's not</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:52</time>
<p>customary in the Western culture at the time for women to fight like this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:56</time>
<p>And here's a woman who it's just very natural for her to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:59</time>
<p>go out and help her brother.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:01</time>
<p>And we talk about that in the video and it's, and again, I always</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:05</time>
<p>encourage folks to go watch the video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:07</time>
<p>The link will be in the show notes, but to you, you watch our video and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:11</time>
<p>we take a lot of extra B roll shots to kind of get these wide expansive</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:15</time>
<p>shots of the planes and kind of what we're looking above down the river.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:18</time>
<p>So you can kind of get a feel for what some of these battles, the setting for</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:22</time>
<p>them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:22</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:22</time>
<p>It's an, a different, it's a different type of fighting</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:24</time>
<p>to think of all these army.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:27</time>
<p>Personnel from the civil war.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:29</time>
<p>And they used to this very front on front fighting where the American</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:33</time>
<p>Indian is very much a warrior.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:35</time>
<p>It's going to write circle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:36</time>
<p>They're going to write circles around you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:38</time>
<p>They're going to hold onto their horses.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
<p>Next.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
<p>They're going to be hard to aim at there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
<p>There they really like to get the dust up to kind of get it kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:48</time>
<p>of, so you're confused and it's different type of fighting for them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
<p>They fire arrows into the sky, hoping that they just hit you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:54</time>
<p>And so.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:55</time>
<p>Cook just backs off.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:57</time>
<p>So cost is kind of feeling like all these generals are coming to help me.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:01</time>
<p>But Cooke just left and he's in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
<p>custer is, still a Lieutenant Colonel</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:04</time>
<p>at the Villa.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:04</time>
<p>The tenant Colonel at the time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
<p>So he starts to head out and.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:09</time>
<p>He has these Scouts, these Crow Scouts with him who are like, they're over there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:14</time>
<p>Well, the Crow Scouts tell him they saw you coming.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:18</time>
<p>So they're probably going to fight you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:19</time>
<p>And that's one of the reasons why Custer.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:22</time>
<p>Engage us with them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:23</time>
<p>So</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:23</time>
<p>that's why he starts splitting his kind of battalions</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:26</time>
<p>off.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:27</time>
<p>Or he probably would have just stayed, put and waited for more reinforcement.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:30</time>
<p>Interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:31</time>
<p>But because the Scouts have told them that they've seen us and they're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:34</time>
<p>going to come attack us, cussed us, like, well, I should get the,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:39</time>
<p>a offensive I should attack first.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:41</time>
<p>And so on the morning of June 25th 1876, he rides out with his</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:46</time>
<p>seven Calvary it's about 400 men.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:49</time>
<p>And starts to split them up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:51</time>
<p>And what he doesn't realize is this encampment.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:55</time>
<p>Of Dakota Sioux and Arapaho.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:59</time>
<p>And Cheyenne are about 7,000 strong.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:02</time>
<p>2000 warrior strong.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:04</time>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:05</time>
<p>So you've got 5,000 women.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:07</time>
<p>Children elders chiefs, right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
<p>Sitting bull as a part of them, crazy horse as a part of them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:12</time>
<p>They're both there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:13</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
<p>And if any, if you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:16</time>
<p>Well, yeah, we should.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:17</time>
<p>We try, I, I tried really, really hard to kind of really paint the picture of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:20</time>
<p>what it must have looked like back then, because that area, while it's very kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:23</time>
<p>of looks very kind of grassy now, there was, it was actually one of the The park</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:28</time>
<p>Rangers told us it was a lot more bushy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:29</time>
<p>Back then.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:30</time>
<p>Kind of bigger bushes, so more difficult to see, but also</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:34</time>
<p>they're up higher on these ridges.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:36</time>
<p>Looking kind of what further away at Little Bighorn</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:39</time>
<p>river, which is kind of down.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:41</time>
<p>Almost over like a bluff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:43</time>
<p>So it would be difficult and there's like trees that are down by the river until</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:47</time>
<p>there's all these encampments down there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:48</time>
<p>But it would still be difficult to see how and guage, how many were down there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:52</time>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:53</time>
<p>And if you see in our video, I'm pointing to where the green green trees are.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:58</time>
<p>Cause the green green trees align the river and the encampment</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
<p>is on the Western side of that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:03</time>
<p>So it's on the other side of the river.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:05</time>
<p>So as Custer comes in and he splits his men.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
<p>Now I want this perfectly clear before I move any further.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:13</time>
<p>There nobody survives with Custer.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:17</time>
<p>So there is no primary source firsthand documentation about</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:21</time>
<p>what Custer was thinking.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:23</time>
<p>Why he did what he did.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:26</time>
<p>Because there's no survivors to tell you, all you we have is what</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:31</time>
<p>people heard, but Reno's group heard, which they were almost a mile away.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:36</time>
<p>And then you have.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:38</time>
<p>The oral history from the American</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
<p>Indian and Reno.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:42</time>
<p>So he was with the original 400 before they split off, then they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:46</time>
<p>split off into three groups.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:47</time>
<p>Reno was kind of in the front, it kind of in the front, closer to the river in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:52</time>
<p>And Custer was higher up on the Ridge.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:54</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:55</time>
<p>So people feel because Custer was very much a student of Sherman</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:00</time>
<p>and Sherman's March to the sea.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
<p>That he wanted to do kind of like he was going to bombard the front and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:08</time>
<p>have the warriors come at the front.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:10</time>
<p>Which is what Reno was supposed to do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:12</time>
<p>And then all the women and children would run to the rear and Custer was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:16</time>
<p>going to go to the rear and capture the women and children and having</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:20</time>
<p>women and children as prisoners.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
<p>I would cause the warriors to surrender and then they would be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:26</time>
<p>able to get them to move back to their reservations in South Dakota.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:32</time>
<p>That.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:33</time>
<p>That's what people have historians and.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:36</time>
<p>Put together.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:37</time>
<p>It together.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:38</time>
<p>The plan.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:39</time>
<p>Makes the most logical sense of what he was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:41</time>
<p>thinking, but it doesn't quite work because Custer really.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:46</time>
<p>Paul makes himself a small group.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:48</time>
<p>It's only 40 men who were killed on her since last stand.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:50</time>
<p>And that doesn't quite seem like you would put yourself in that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:54</time>
<p>small deficit, but who knows?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:56</time>
<p>So Reno takes about 200.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:59</time>
<p>And hits the front.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:01</time>
<p>And again, 200 against 2000 warriors is there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:07</time>
<p>They don't make it far at all.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:09</time>
<p>They are pushed back and Reno.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:11</time>
<p>I mean, they're fighting for their lives, the American Indians fight in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:15</time>
<p>a way that they really try to get your horses to run and they really try to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:19</time>
<p>scare you scare the horses and get the horses to stampede and get out of the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
<p>way, because they know if a horse runs a lot of your supplies, go with it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:26</time>
<p>And so you're only left with what you have.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:29</time>
<p>And custody to not bring any gambling guns.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:31</time>
<p>He did not bring any quick shoot shooting a revolver.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:35</time>
<p>Rifles.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:35</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:36</time>
<p>And the Americans Indians did have quick shooting rifles.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:39</time>
<p>Oh, interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:40</time>
<p>So.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:41</time>
<p>Reno gets pushed back right away.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:44</time>
<p>Unbeknownst to Custer who has already split off and gone around the.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:50</time>
<p>I would say the Eastern edge, the Northern edge.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:53</time>
<p>And as he's coming around, he splits F another group Calhoun's group.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:58</time>
<p>He splits them off, down a small ravine.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:00</time>
<p>Going down towards the river, going down towards, I would say hitting</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:03</time>
<p>like the mid point of the village.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:05</time>
<p>So if</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:06</time>
<p>you're kind of thinking of this in your head and you're listening.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:08</time>
<p>You know, pick picture a TV screen in your head at the top of the TV screen,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:12</time>
<p>kind of where the Ridge would be.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:14</time>
<p>And the bottom of the TV screen is where the river would be.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:17</time>
<p>So Reno's coming down towards the river earliest.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:21</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:21</time>
<p>And the TV screen.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:22</time>
<p>And then towards that top middle that's where Calhoun starts coming down.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:25</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:25</time>
<p>Because he was trying to go around the basket.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:27</time>
<p>I was trying to go around the entire top of the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:29</time>
<p>TV screen and around the back.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:30</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:31</time>
<p>And never gets there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:32</time>
<p>He</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:32</time>
<p>never gets there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:32</time>
<p>He thinks he's going to get all the women and children.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:34</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:34</time>
<p>Well, Reno's group is hit by these warriors so quick.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:38</time>
<p>And the warriors, see the men going across the top.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:43</time>
<p>And so they just go out after them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:45</time>
<p>They, they keep a couple of guys still fighting Reno's group.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:48</time>
<p>But they go out after Calhoun's group and then they go right for Custer's group.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:52</time>
<p>And I'm talking about.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:54</time>
<p>Crazy horse.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:55</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:56</time>
<p>I'm talking about the leader of the leader going out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:58</time>
<p>And I talk about this in the video because crazy horse rides in between</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:03</time>
<p>Calhoun and Custer's group, and both of them are trying to fire at this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:09</time>
<p>American Indian leader warrior, and none of it, he's not being hit.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:14</time>
<p>And so it's very inspirational.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:17</time>
<p>Again, this is oral American Indian history, but it's very inspirational</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:21</time>
<p>for the warriors to see him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:22</time>
<p>Not only taking the lead, but not getting hit.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:26</time>
<p>And he's, he's just in a very like Wharf war fighting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:30</time>
<p>You know, Yeah stage right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:33</time>
<p>And so they're so inspired by him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:35</time>
<p>So they have what they call the suicide boys, which are like</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:37</time>
<p>these young warriors who jumped from their horses and just charge</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:41</time>
<p>Custer.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:42</time>
<p>Kind of follow crazy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:44</time>
<p>Horse up there and like, we're doing this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:45</time>
<p>We're doing this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:46</time>
<p>And so it's very interesting as Custer.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:49</time>
<p>He has really he's paralyzed himself to 40 men.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:54</time>
<p>And he's with his brother he's with his nephew.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:58</time>
<p>And he has really gotten to a point where they are in circled.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:03</time>
<p>They're probably at the highest kind of point of, they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:06</time>
<p>try to get the high ground.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:07</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:08</time>
<p>To get the high ground.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:08</time>
<p>And they were, but they were.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:10</time>
<p>You know, looking at, if you can, if you watch our video, I found some maps</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:14</time>
<p>on online of people kind of recreating what it looks like, and you can see</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:17</time>
<p>what they're trying to do with Custer's troops church kind of in circle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:22</time>
<p>What they think is, is the.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:23</time>
<p>You know, the native Americans down at the river.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:25</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:25</time>
<p>But there's 7,000 native Americans down there, like you said to 2000 warriors.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:31</time>
<p>Th they were so far out manned and outgunned.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:35</time>
<p>They didn't have a chance.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:36</time>
<p>They didn't have a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:36</time>
<p>chance.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:37</time>
<p>So.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:38</time>
<p>Reno.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:39</time>
<p>I mean, this all happens in about two hours.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:41</time>
<p>Think about how quick this is happening.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:43</time>
<p>Reno says he can hear it happening.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:47</time>
<p>And people have speculated was we know a coward.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:50</time>
<p>Why didn't he go?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:51</time>
<p>Why didn't he.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:52</time>
<p>Send people out, people don't know, people think, we know might've</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:56</time>
<p>thought this was a suicide mission that Custer was doing anyway.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:00</time>
<p>When he saw all these people, why are we attacking when we should have</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:04</time>
<p>been waiting for our reinforcements from the other Calvary's here, we're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:08</time>
<p>doing this because Custer thought he had it in the bag or Custer just</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:12</time>
<p>who knows what Custer was thinking.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:14</time>
<p>But.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:15</time>
<p>He gets on Last Stand Hill which is the highest, highest.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:20</time>
<p>Part of the land that you can get to right there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:22</time>
<p>And you'll see the monument is there today.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:24</time>
<p>And he shoot, they shoot all their horses.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:27</time>
<p>So that's one of the things we talk about too.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:29</time>
<p>Is there going to shoot all of their horses because not only are the American</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:33</time>
<p>Indians trying to scare the horses away and they're very successful at that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:37</time>
<p>They, they shoot them to use them as shields and it call it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:41</time>
<p>breasts works because basically think of protecting your breasts.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:44</time>
<p>You're gonna, you're gonna use your horse as a.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:47</time>
<p>As an aim as cover, you're going to lay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:49</time>
<p>So it's protecting your breasts basically.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:52</time>
<p>Plus your horse has all your supplies has all your extra ammunition.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:56</time>
<p>So they shoot all of their horses.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:57</time>
<p>They basically build themselves like a barricade in a circle, but the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:01</time>
<p>American Indians just overpower them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:03</time>
<p>And you had even said to that, like in that, that era, that was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:07</time>
<p>a known kind of last ditch effort.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:11</time>
<p>You know, had defensive tactics.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:12</time>
<p>We don't think about that today.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:14</time>
<p>Because, you know, we, we, we don't fight like that today, but if you think</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:19</time>
<p>about it, I mean, I talk about Buffalo, bill Cody, doing things like this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:22</time>
<p>Custer has had 11 horses shot out from underneath him in the civil war.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:27</time>
<p>That's why people thought that this is something with this guy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:30</time>
<p>He's didn't.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:31</time>
<p>The horse has been killed 11 times and he hasn't.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:34</time>
<p>So it's not, I'm not saying horses are expendable.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:37</time>
<p>But it was something that was thought of as a last ditch effort.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:41</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:42</time>
<p>And.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:43</time>
<p>People don't know exactly how Custer was killed, but they do say the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:47</time>
<p>Buffalo calf woman was the person who knocks Custer from his horse.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:51</time>
<p>He has two bullet wounds when he has found one in the head and one in the chest.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:56</time>
<p>And they don't know if they were before or after which one killed him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:00</time>
<p>They don't know if the bullet wound to the head is after</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:03</time>
<p>and last 10.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:04</time>
<p>Th this, this video is actually doing quite well, even better than</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:08</time>
<p>our last couple of videos, which is surprising and pleasantly surprising.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:12</time>
<p>But I think part of the reason is that we show so much of the area, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:16</time>
<p>So last stand hill is the high point.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:18</time>
<p>There's all sorts of grave markers around the air, including a grave</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:21</time>
<p>marker for Custer, even though he's not.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:23</time>
<p>As far as we know, buried there anymore.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:25</time>
<p>So those markers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:27</time>
<p>We're put there so that the there's been an evolution of the battlefield.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:31</time>
<p>At first, they had little like obelisks and then people would just take them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:35</time>
<p>And then they would just replace them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:36</time>
<p>And then now they have the markers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:38</time>
<p>Now they have a gate around the markers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:39</time>
<p>When I was a kid, you could walk around the last downhill markers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:42</time>
<p>Now there's a gate around the last downhill markers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:44</time>
<p>Custer's marker has black.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:46</time>
<p>On it to kind of distinguish it from the other markers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:48</time>
<p>There's more markers and actual men that were on last stand hill.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:53</time>
<p>So they believe there was only 40 men on less than who I think</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:56</time>
<p>there's like 45 markers out there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:58</time>
<p>So again, it's, it's close enough.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:01</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:02</time>
<p>People really believe that they were killed on the top of the hill</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:06</time>
<p>where the monument stands today because they wouldn't be, they made</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:09</time>
<p>their stand at the high ground.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:11</time>
<p>So where those markers are, could be where they buried them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:16</time>
<p>Now.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:17</time>
<p>I want to just touch on it because people always want to know what</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:20</time>
<p>happened to Custer's body after.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:22</time>
<p>Was it mutilated?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:23</time>
<p>Yes, it was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:24</time>
<p>So you have to think.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:27</time>
<p>All of a sudden Reno here is no sound, no more gunfire.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:30</time>
<p>He knows that's it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:32</time>
<p>He, he stays, he stays where he's at.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:35</time>
<p>Until he's reinforced the next day.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:37</time>
<p>And they're able to get away him and his chips.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:40</time>
<p>They're able to fight off and stay right where they are, the American Indians.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:44</time>
<p>will bury their warriors and start to move because they know something's coming.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:50</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:50</time>
<p>And believe me, this, this is going to be answered.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:53</time>
<p>But.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:55</time>
<p>The American Indians, when they encounter the dead soldiers,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:59</time>
<p>their bodies are ransacked.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:00</time>
<p>Of course, they take all the gear that they can find, and they are.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:04</time>
<p>Scalped.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:05</time>
<p>And there are some mutilations done and people believe it could be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:09</time>
<p>because if you are bodies mutilated, your You must walk the earth.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:13</time>
<p>For the rest of your life.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:15</time>
<p>So, but no one knows for sure, but when the soldiers eventually do get to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:19</time>
<p>the bodies, which is about five days later, they do wrap them up in blankets.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:24</time>
<p>Very shallowly, bury them and cover them with rocks.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:27</time>
<p>And they believe that is where those markers are.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:30</time>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:31</time>
<p>And then about.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:33</time>
<p>Five years after that is when someone's like, oh, Custer should be at west point.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:39</time>
<p>Yeah, cause he graduated there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:40</time>
<p>He graduated there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:41</time>
<p>And other people want their family's bodies too.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:44</time>
<p>So some other army officers come out there to retrieve those bodies.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:49</time>
<p>And as you can think, five years animals, shallow grave, shallow graves,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:53</time>
<p>nothing much is things are scattered.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:56</time>
<p>They find.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:57</time>
<p>What they believe as a officer Lieutenant Colonel jacket with the bones, but they're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:03</time>
<p>not sure because again, things have been, who knows what the American Indians kept</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:08</time>
<p>or didn't keep her through or, and so.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:11</time>
<p>And the officer just gets to the point, grabbed those ones.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:14</time>
<p>That's Custer.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:15</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:16</time>
<p>Grab these ones.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:17</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:18</time>
<p>And so then they take all the bones.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:20</time>
<p>And bury them at the very top and put the monument above it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:24</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:24</time>
<p>So there's no bones where those markers are today.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:27</time>
<p>They're buried at the monument and in all likelihood, summer</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:31</time>
<p>customers' bones are still there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:33</time>
<p>And who knows.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:34</time>
<p>It might be a little Custer and a little of some other peeps.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:37</time>
<p>With it in the grave at west point, but.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:41</time>
<p>What is interesting too, is I'd say in the last 20 years, They have put red markers</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:48</time>
<p>for the American Indians that fell.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:51</time>
<p>That was cool to see.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:52</time>
<p>And I, and I, again, as, as the, the non history nerd here,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:56</time>
<p>I appreciated them kind of.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:59</time>
<p>It evolving.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:00</time>
<p>You know, through that because you know, they didn't do that when they first kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:02</time>
<p>of created now under the national park.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:04</time>
<p>That was that that's there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:06</time>
<p>But now they have like an Indian in a native American Memorial.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:09</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:11</time>
<p>With all sorts of really, really well done.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:14</time>
<p>And I did my best to kind of show it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:16</time>
<p>We had like high noon is sunlight.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:18</time>
<p>You know, so it was difficult with glares and cameras and stuff, but it was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:21</time>
<p>really neat to see how they did that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:24</time>
<p>The Indian Memorial.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:26</time>
<p>And it, you could see, you know, just up the hill was the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:30</time>
<p>monument was the last stand hill.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:32</time>
<p>It was, it was pretty, it was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:32</time>
<p>very well done.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:34</time>
<p>There's a lot of symbolism there it's you can see it has a little crack, so you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:38</time>
<p>can see the monument of last downhill.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:41</time>
<p>It is a circle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:42</time>
<p>So it's very much how the American Indian fought.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:45</time>
<p>In a circle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:46</time>
<p>It has a silhouette of the American Indians and their horses.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:50</time>
<p>And the way, like I said, how they kind of hang around the necks</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:53</time>
<p>of their horses, which makes it hard for people to aim at them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:58</time>
<p>And it is a very beautiful, and it talks about Custer smoking, a peace pipe</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:03</time>
<p>promising, never to kill a Cheyenne.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:05</time>
<p>And then let, what is it?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:06</time>
<p>Less than seven years later?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:08</time>
<p>And it says, if you do, your body will turn to dust and he does.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:13</time>
<p>So it's just very like, for, for boating.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:16</time>
<p>It has some great etchings of the chiefs.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:18</time>
<p>And like I said, I sitting bull, is there crazy horses there?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:23</time>
<p>Crazy horse will eventually surrender himself in Nebraska</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:26</time>
<p>where he will eventually be killed.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:28</time>
<p>He would be bayoneted by an army officer and sitting bull will He'll run away</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:31</time>
<p>to Canada, but he will also eventually surrender himself and then he will</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:36</time>
<p>eventually be killed by the army.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:38</time>
<p>So this is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:40</time>
<p>The last great triumph of the American Indian.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:44</time>
<p>And like I said, although they will win this battle, they will</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:46</time>
<p>ultimately lose the war and they are still on their reservations today.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:52</time>
<p>And I think what happens, you know, the Custer.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:56</time>
<p>This is a rallying point for America.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:58</time>
<p>This is a great.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:00</time>
<p>Way for people in media and newspaper to really paint the American Indian</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:04</time>
<p>as a Savage again, and for them to, again, for the army to go</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:09</time>
<p>out there and to really regulate.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:12</time>
<p>Where the American Indian can live.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:15</time>
<p>And again, start to break down their culture and send their children.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:18</time>
<p>To westernized schools.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:20</time>
<p>And try to erase a lot of their heritage and traditions.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:24</time>
<p>And they're not.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:24</time>
<p>That is unsuccessful.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:26</time>
<p>Thank goodness.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:27</time>
<p>But what I do try to stress at the end of this video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:30</time>
<p>And I think it's important is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:33</time>
<p>There's no sides here, both.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:37</time>
<p>Both sides, fight balantly to their deaths.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:41</time>
<p>And a lot of ways both are fighting for something they ultimately believe in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:46</time>
<p>And when you think Custer's fighting, because it's his job to keep the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:51</time>
<p>American Indians on these reservations is part is part of the treaty.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:55</time>
<p>He's also helping the Crow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:58</time>
<p>And he feels like this is his duty to do the job, to, to protect the,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:03</time>
<p>the, the Westerners, the people who are homesteading and the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:06</time>
<p>crazy horse and sitting bull war fighting for their way of life.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:09</time>
<p>And so I look at it as there's no win.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:11</time>
<p>There's no winner here.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:13</time>
<p>This is a very much a culture clash.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:16</time>
<p>Of American history.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:17</time>
<p>And I look at both sides fighting violently to the end.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:22</time>
<p>Custer.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:23</time>
<p>This will go on to be kind of romanticized because Custer's wife,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:27</time>
<p>Elizabeth goes on this kind of campaign.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:31</time>
<p>That's right to protect his image.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:33</time>
<p>I remember you mentioning that, which was very interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:35</time>
<p>And.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:36</time>
<p>I can understand in that era, why a wife might, might do that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:42</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:42</time>
<p>It's kind of tied to the livelihood and.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:45</time>
<p>Be your place in society and.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:47</time>
<p>And all this stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:48</time>
<p>So.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:48</time>
<p>It was very interesting learning about this and actually being there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:53</time>
<p>Just kind of had that feel right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:56</time>
<p>It was some national parks you can kind of.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:00</time>
<p>Get the feel for what happened back then.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:01</time>
<p>And this absolutely was one of them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:03</time>
<p>And actually, I think we, we had learned that like, A week after we left.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:08</time>
<p>They were doing, they were getting ready to shut down.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:10</time>
<p>Yeah, the visitor center visitors.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:11</time>
<p>Visitor center.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:12</time>
<p>Because they're getting ready to overhaul it for you and do it like a large,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:15</time>
<p>large overhaul.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:16</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:17</time>
<p>And if you go visit, there is a national cemetery there that has nothing to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:21</time>
<p>do with the battle of Little Bighorn.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:23</time>
<p>So when you see the national cemetery, it's just people who have fought in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:27</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:27</time>
<p>You know, Veterans it's veterans who are buried there on the reservation, but</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:32</time>
<p>when you drive up, you might be like, oh, are these the people from Bella?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:35</time>
<p>No, that has nothing to do with the Bella.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:37</time>
<p>Big horn, but I just want to stress that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:40</time>
<p>I feel very proud of the American Indian in this regard because they did, they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:44</time>
<p>beat the bully, they beat the Goliath, but I also feel bad for Goliath because</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:49</time>
<p>they are fighting for something that they.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:51</time>
<p>They don't know any better either.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:53</time>
<p>And so for me, it was just.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:57</time>
<p>As an, as an American and as a historian it's someplace that I really think is</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:01</time>
<p>such an important part of our history.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:04</time>
<p>It can't go away.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:05</time>
<p>We have to learn it and we have to learn all of it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:08</time>
<p>I really appreciated the spirit tree that was there that had</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:12</time>
<p>all the cloth tied on it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:13</time>
<p>I know that the American Indians.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:16</time>
<p>Celebrate every year they do ghost dances and they're out</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:20</time>
<p>there, you know, still celebrating their ancestors and that moment.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:24</time>
<p>And I just think it's a very important to not forget it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:26</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:27</time>
<p>And in and largely too, because the national park is</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:30</time>
<p>located on, a native American reservation, so it was, it was neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:34</time>
<p>It was so neat for me because I have family ties.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:38</time>
<p>History ties to Montana.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:40</time>
<p>We actually had a friend that lived didn't didn't live too far away and we felt bad.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:44</time>
<p>Not.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:45</time>
<p>Sorry, Courtney.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:46</time>
<p>For not reaching out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:47</time>
<p>We're, we're very limited on time and cause we drove, 6,000 miles</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:51</time>
<p>over the course of two weeks.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:53</time>
<p>But it was an absolute blast and that is absolutely one of those places.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:57</time>
<p>Like you just have to make the effort to get out there and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:01</time>
<p>go, it's not close to anything.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:04</time>
<p>You have to make the effort, but it's a hundred percent worth it because you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:07</time>
<p>just see these vast kind of rolling Plains Hills and way off in the distance.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:13</time>
<p>You can start seeing, some bigger stuff, some of the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:16</time>
<p>bigger mountains in Montana and.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:18</time>
<p>Just driving through there is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:20</time>
<p>It's a, it's a different part of the country.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:22</time>
<p>It's bigger and it feels bigger out there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:26</time>
<p>It's powerful.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:27</time>
<p>It's very powerful.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:30</time>
<p>So I hope that you've gained a deeper understanding of the pivotal moment that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:35</time>
<p>forever altered the course of history.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:38</time>
<p>The battle of Little Bighorn stands as a poignant reminder of the clash between</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:43</time>
<p>cultures, the complexities of human conflict and the resilience of those</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:47</time>
<p>who fought to protect their way of life.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:50</time>
<p>So join us in the next episode, we'll continue to delve into the tapestry</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:54</time>
<p>of the past, uncovered the threads that connect us to these remarkable</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:58</time>
<p>events and that have shaped our world that Jen and I love going out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:02</time>
<p>Walking in the footsteps and sharing that with you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:05</time>
<p>If you enjoy this podcast, we have a bunch of other episodes that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:08</time>
<p>cover Western history, and we encourage you to check those out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:12</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:12</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:16</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:19</time>
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