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EPISODE 18 - The War For The Black Hills (Part 3): Last Stand
🕑 Added 2017-10-13 18:30:02 +0000 UTC "It made my heart bad. After that, I killed my enemies with the hatchet.”— Lakota leader Gall, upon finding out his family had been killed
“If we’ve got to die, let’s die here like men."
— Lieutenant Luther Hare
"We were terribly alone on that dangerous hilltop. We were a million miles from nowhere. And death was all around us.”
— Charles Windolph
“Only Earth and the Heavens last long, Uncle. If we four can stop the soldiers from taking our camp, our lives will matter little.”
— Bobtail Horse
“Hokahey, brother! This life will not last forever”
— White Bull addressing Crazy Horse
“I am a Fox. I am supposed to die.
If there is anything difficult,
If there is anything dangerous,
It is mine to do.”
— Kit Fox warrior society song
To the Lakota people, the Black Hills of South Dakota were—and still are—‘the heart of everything that is.’ To the United States, they were a goldmine, and Manifest Destiny’s next target. It was for the Black Hills that the Lakota went to war against the United States for the last time.
In this episode:
- Reno’s attack
- Moving Robe Woman gets her revenge
- Bloody Knife and his nieces
- The Throwing-Them-Off-Their-Horses game
- Equine sexual passion can’t be restrained by humans and their battles
- Benteen’s choices
- The long night
- A handful of Cheyenne warriors and the meaning of bravery
- White Bull, Crazy Horse and the ‘suicide boys”
- The one who (almost) got away
- Cheyenne women helping Custer to improve his hearing
- Custer’s smile
- Setting up Custer
- Defiant smile and raised middle finger
