The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-01-22

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Even more realistic is the Story
of the Sioux Indians who fought
Custer on that memorable day. Rec
Cloud, the Sioux chief says:
Suddenly we heard firing anC
we found out that the soldiers were
on us. The women and children
were all frightened and. started tC
run across the hills, and we men
mounted our horses and started to-
ward the enemy. | remember that
we pushed Reno back until he had
to cross the river and 60 up against
the bluffs and then some of our
Sioux rode around the hill to bead
him off and we had him in a pock-
ct.
AFTER we had killed many of
Reno's men Custer came along the
ridge and we were called off to fight
Custer. We kept circling around
Custer and as his men came down
the ridge we shot them down. And
then the rest dismouuted and gath
cred in bunch, kneeling down and
shooting from behind their horses
We circled round and round, firing
into Clusters men until the last man
was killed.
Il did not see Custer fall, for all
the Indians did not know which was
Custer. One reason why We did not
scalp Custer was because the In
dams and the white soldiers were
so mixed up that it was hard to
distinguish one man from another
and another reason was because
Custer was the bravest man of all
and we did not want to touch him
as he made the last stand. This is
also the opinion of Rain-in-the Face.
Regarding the cause of the Gus
ter fight [ must say we were pursued
by the soldiers, we we're on the
warpath, and we were on the war
path with the Crows and other
tribes. We were trying to drive
them back from the hunting grounds
and the soldiers came upon us and
we had to defend ourselves.
I'VE were driven out of the Black
Hills by the men seeking gold and
our game was driven off and we
started on our journey in search of
game Our children were starving
and we had to have something to
eat. There was buffalo in that
region and we were moving, simply
camping here and there and fight
ing our Indian enemies as we adj
vanced in order to set the game that
was in this country.
we fought this battle from day
light up until 3 o'clock in the after
noon and all of the white men were
killed. / think Custer was a very
brave man to fight all those Indians
with his few men from daylight un-
til the sun was almost going down.
Runs-the-Enemy, another Sioux
chief, says in part:
When we had killed all the
soldiers we felt that we had done
Our duty and felt that it was great
battle and not a massacre. With
reference to the real reason for this
fight / may say the talk among the
Indians was thai they were going to
compel us to stay OH the reserva-
ton and take away from US our
country. Our purpose was to move
north and go as far north as posi-
BILE away from the tribes.
During the Custer fight out tents
were not attacked, but after the
battle the women gathered up their
dead husbands and brothers and
laid them out nicely in the tepees
and left them. | understand that
after we had left the soldiers came
and burned the tepees.
According to my estimate three
were about 1000 able bodied war
riors engaged in this fight; they
were all in good fighting order. The
guns and ammunition that we
gathered from the dead soldiers of
CuSter command put Us In b tier
fighting condition than ever before,
but the sentiment ran around among
the Indians that we had killed
enough and we did not want to
fight anymore.
There has been a good deal of
dispute about the number of In
dams killed. About the closest esti-
mate that>w can make is that so
Sioux were killed in the fight and
others died a short time afterward
from their wounds"
Chief Two Moons says:
The whole valley was filled with
smoke and the bullets flew all about
US, making a noise like bees We
could hardly hear anything for the
noise of guns. When the guns were
firing the Sioux and Cheyennes and