Edited sentence: Michno's Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat (1997).Still, the tactical errors made by Custer are undeniable: ditching his battery of Gatling Guns so that his unit could move faster overland, dividing his forces, refusing the advice of his Crow scouts not to fight.The best and most revealing recent treatment is Gregory F.This book, taken exclusively from the Indian accounts--which the traditional military historians have deliberately ignored, considering them incoherent--gives an account of the battle from beginning to end based on the testimony of the Indian survivors and where they were and at what time they witnessed the events they described