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Iron Thunder's Story of the Battle
A Minneconjou Sioux's account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

As told to Gen. Winfield Scott Edgerly.

Note

Minneconjou Sioux warrior Iron ThunderWE WERE encamped on the west side of the Little Bighorn. On the upper side of the camp was a small ash grove, and the camp was strung along from the grove more than two miles down the river. The tepees were close together, one band adjoining another all the way down. I did not know anything about Reno's attack until his men were so close that the bullets went through the camp, and everything was in confusion. The horses were so frightened we could not catch them. I was catching my horse to join the fight. When I caught him and was mounted, our warriors had driven the white men off and were running after them. Then I followed the way they went, and I saw a lot of horsemen -- Indians --crossing the river, and went after them. I followed them across the river, and before I overtook them, going up the hill, I found an Indian lying there dead. I knew him. He and I were sworn friends. I stopped to look at him. The whites were still firing back at us. Just as I arrived where our men were, the report came to us that another party was coming to attack us. We could not see them from where we were. The report was that they were coming to head off the women and children from the way they were going, and so we turned around and went towards them. Our men moved around in the direction of a circle, but I cut across to a knoll and looked up the river and saw them coming down. The day before the fight I had come back from a war party against the Crows. I had only one horse, and his feet were worn out (the Indians do not shoe their horses, and they often give out on long marches), and by the time I got half-way back to where Long-Haired Chief and his men were my horse was so lame I could go no further. I was nearly two miles away when the Indians charged Long-Haired Chief and his warriors. You could not notice the difference in the sun from the time when Custer was charged until he was done away with. Agency Indians, Yanktons and Santees were there. All took part. Every Indian took part in the fight that could, but there was such confusion that no one could tell the particulars of what was done.


The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custerania, written and compiled by Colonel W.A. Graham, The Stackpole Co., Harrisburg, PA 1953, p 96 - 97

NOTE:

Iron Thunder was the younger brother of Hump.



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