The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Lakota
    akicita (police)
    and bands of Lakota
    and Battle of Killdeer Mountain
    at Battle of Little Bighorn
    and Custer’s brass band
    important members of
    Sitting Bull as leader of
    village of
    Indian agencies. See also specific agencies
    Indian country
    Indian reservations
    Indian scouts. See also specific scouts; specific tribes
    Inkpaduta (Santee Sioux chief)
    interracial unions
    Iron Hawk (Hunkpapa Lakota)
    Jackson, Billy (Pikuni scout)
    Johnson, Benjamin
    John Stands in Timber (Cheyenne)
    Jordan, John
    Joseph Horn Cloud
    Julia Face (Brulé Lakota)
    Jumping Bull (Sitting Bull’s brother)
    Kanipe, Daniel
    Kansas
    Kate Bighead (Cheyenne)
    Kellogg, Mark
    Keogh, Myles
    at Battle of Little Bighorn
    as Custer’s senior officer
    description of
    friendship with Libbie
    horse of
    Kicking Bear (Oglala Lakota)
    Kill Eagle (Blackfeet Lakota)
    Kiowa
    Korn, Gustave
    Ku Klux Klan
    Lakota
    and “Battle in the Dark,”
    and Battle of Killdeer Mountain
    at Battle of Little Bighorn
    and Black Hills
    burial grounds of
    camped at Little Bighorn
    children at boarding schools
    and Custer
    desiring peace
    different bands of
    facing white soldiers
    and Grouard
    history/culture of
    nomadic lifestyle of
    opinion of whites
    outnumbering soldiers at Battle of Little Bighorn
    Parkman’s description of
    and reservations
    and scouts
    and sun dance
    U.S. Army attacks
    vast village of
    and victory
    and warfare strategy
    warriors of
    and water
    weapons used by
    whites’ expansion into territory of
    see also other tribes
    Lame White Man (Cheyenne)
    LaPointe, Ernie
    Last Stand
    Last Stand Hill
    Left Hand (Arapaho)
    Lewis and Clark Expedition
    Lincoln, Abraham
    Little Bighorn River
    and the battle
    and Lakota/Cheyenne villages
    Little Bighorn Valley
    Little Big Man (Oglala Lakota)
    Little Big Man (film)
    Little Bird (Cheyenne)
    Little Brave (Arikara scout)
    Little Face (Crow scout)
    Little Hawk (Cheyenne)
    Little Missouri River
    Little Soldier (Hunkpapa Lakota)
    Little Wolf (Cheyenne)
    Lone Man (Hunkpapa policeman)
    Lone Tepee
    Long Road (Sans Arc Lakota)
    Lord, George
    Lorentz, George
    Lounsberry. A.
    Low Dog (Oglala Lakota)
    Lynch, Dennis
    McCaskey, William
    McCormick, Samuel
    McCurry, Joseph
    McDougall, Thomas
    McGuire, John
    McIntosh, Donald
    McLaughlin, James
    McVay, John
    Madden, Michael
    Maguire, Edward
    Mahoney, John
    maps
    Battle of the Rosebud
    Battle of the Washita
    Benteen’s swing left
    General Terry’s plan
    Last Stand
    march of the Dakota Column
    march of the Montana Column to the Little Bighorn
    march of the Seventh Cavalry
    march to the Divide
    Northern Plains and Kansas, with detail of Custer in the Black Hills
    Peter Thompson’s walkabout
    Reno’s scout
    river of nightmares
    siege, day
    Sitting Bull’s village
    into the valley
    valley fight
    to Weir Peak and back
    Marsh, Grant
    and Libbie Custer
    and massacre of Custer’s battalion
    and Seventh Cavalry
    Terry’s faith in
    trips on the Missouri
    trips on Yellowstone River
    turning boat into hospital
    Martin, John
    Martini, Giovanni, see Martin, John
    Mathey, Edward
    Mechling, Henry
    Medicine Arrow
    Medicine Tail Coulee
    Medicine Water Lake
    Melville, Herman
    Meyer, William
    Miles, Nelson
    Mills, Anson
    miners
    Minneconjou Lakota
    Missouri River
    and forts
    geography of
    and Indians
    and riverboats
    trips on
    Mizpah Creek
    Monahsetah (Cheyenne)
    Monroe, Michigan
    Montana
    Montana Column
    Moore, Orlando
    Morris, William
    Moving Robe Woman (Hunkpapa Lakota)
    Moylan, Myles
    mule pack trains
    and Crook
    guarding of
    and McDougall’s B Company
    mishaps with
    and transport of supplies
    My Life on the Plains (George Custer)
    Native culture
    Native police
    Native religious movement
    Neihardt, John
    Newell, Daniel
    New Rumley, Ohio
    New York Herald
    Noisy Walking (Cheyenne)
    No Neck (Hunkpapa Lakota)
    North American Indians , The (Curtis)
    North Dakota
    Nugent, William
    officers’ wives, see women: married to officers
    Oglala Lakota
    agency for
    and Battle of Little Bighorn
    at Chicago World’s Fair
    leaders of
    Parkman’s observations of
    village of
    warriors of
    O’Hara, Miles
    O’Kelly, James
    One Bull (Sitting Bull’s nephew)
    One Feather (Arikara scout)
    O’Neill, Thomas
    Oregon Trail , The (Parkman)
    Osage scouts
    pack trains, see mule pack trains
    Parker, Ely
    Parkman, Francis
    Paulding, Holmes
    Petring, Henry
    Pickett, George
    Pigford, Edward
    Pine Ridge Reservation
    Plains
    Porter, Henry
    Porter, James
    Powder River
    Powder River encampment
    press, the. See