The Battle of Little Bighorn

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The Battle of Little Bighorn

1969

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1853161

This sound recording is a description of the Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand) as told to Robert Yellowtail, a Crow tribe member, by Brave Bear, a Cheyenne participant in the battle. He also explains how Brave was persuaded to tell his story.

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National Archives at College Park

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SNAC Resource ID: 11656691

National Archives at College Park

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Yellowtail, Robert, 1889-1988

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m14wv7 (person)

Robert Yellowtail was a leader of the Crow Nation. Separated from his mother at the age of 4 years old, Yellowtail was culturally assimilated into a reservation boarding school. When he was 13 years old, he went to the Sherman Institute, in Riverside, California, graduating in 1907. He then attended the Extension Law School in Los Angeles, transferring to the University of Chicago Law School, where he gained his Juris Doctor degree. Yellowtail's first official position, in 1912, was as a distric...