A Macabre artifact from the Battle of the Little Bighorn

[jollyjakelovell]

Thank you for the time and effort you put into this so that folks like Isaiah Dorman are not forgotten and are remembered.

[mikewhiteaadvocacy]

Thank you for the history lesson, I learn so much from these videos.

[donc]

Excellent video and history as always!! I've read all about the Little Boghorn battle, but there is obviously a great deal of individual heroism and suffering that I haven't heard about. I really enjoy your videos on the history and appreciate the work you do drilling down to such personal levels.
Keep up the great work!!!

[mikemehaffey]

I took my Grandson to Little Bighorn last year, after reading some books about all the stuff they had recovered form the battle field. I was vary disappointed, that nothing I had read about was at the Little Bighorn Museum on site. A National Parks person told me, that much of the stuff is at the Smithsonian & others are in private collections. To me, that's a Bummer!

[stevemeska]

As always, good video and thanks for exploring some little known areas of history. I've read quite a bit about that battle, but had never heard of this artifact until now. Dorman must have been a courageous man.

[Ian]

Many Tsitsistas (Cheyenne people) at the Greasy Grass had lost family members at Sand Creek in 1864 & the Washita in 1868. Mutilating the enemy was retribution and punishment for soldiers who would remain lost forever in the afterlife. A soldier with his fingers cut off would Not be able to fire a weapon. A soldier with one leg could Not ride or run. Kate Big Head, a Cheyenne woman who was on the battlefield of the Little Bighorn, recalled seeing Lakotas cut off one of Custers fingers, and then 'puncture' Long Hair Custers eardrums with a sewing awl, so he would 'hear' better in the afterlife, as he had ignored warnings for years from Cheyenne leaders, who told him never to make war on them. The clashes of that day, were a culmination of years of suffering, loss of relatives and constant 'assaults' and 'winter campaigns' by the army on traditional Lakotas, Cheyennes and Arapahoes 🦅 🟥🟨⬛️⬜️ 🦅 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 📯🎺🧥🧥🧥🧥

[felixcat]

Excellent episode, interesting, informative and enjoyable.

Subscribed.

[TUCOtheratt]

Interesting video. Another story worth telling is the chain of custody of the scalp of Yellow/Hair taken by William F Cody a few weeks after the LBH battle.

[danphariss]

And Europeans had tobacco pouched and such made from Native American skin. One cannot look on these things without seeing both sides. It was brutal on both sides.

[anthonystorey]

The story goes that a great great uncle of mine was the only English man to be killed in the battle, my late grandmother told me he wasn't actually in the battle but was camping in a field close by and went over to complain about the noise and was hit by a stray bullet! 😊

[deanrobb]

I was up at the Cody Wy museum decades ago and on display was a necklace of trigger finger bones, the note said the trigger fingers were cut off the soldiers at the little big horn. The necklace was on loan to the museum by a local Indian family, handed down across the generations.

[tinkietinkie]

Thank you for this very interesting story. I can't remember the name or tribe of the Chief but had read they had tried to save Dorman as he was a friend of his, to no avail.

[PeterGummesson-oz]

The best youtube Chanel i know, thax 🙏
Peter, Sweden.

[Serjo]

Does anyone know what rifle that is, that the Indian in the front row on the right is holding at 4:33? Why is its barrel so long? Never seen a rifle like that before.

[wacobobdad]

The Museum should display the tank from those 3 National Guardsmen who were in that Twilight Zone episode.

[YvonneWatson-ffex]

We can’t judge their actions by present day standards.

[fishing_rodrude]

increadable story such a turbulent time history.

[lewisgreenway]

Having watched several videos about Battle of the Little Bighorn I wondered why the Native peoples didn't retrieve their arrows, after all it takes a long time to make them.

[tbcoachniblick]

The group trooper photo is from the Yellowstone or Black Hills Eexpidition NOT THE LITTLE BIGHORN....!!

[ElCrab]

1:02 is almost certainly not Dorman in the photograph.