Young Elk Head's Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

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Young Elk Head's Story of the Battle
A Sioux youth's account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

From an interview with David Humphreys Miller.

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YOUNG ELK HEAD AND TWO RUN'S STORY OF THE BATTLE

Sioux warrior Elk Head ALTHHOUGH too young to be full-fledged warriors, Elk Head and his brother Two Runs had a special reason for family pride. Their father, whose name was also Elk Head, was custodian of the sacred Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Sioux Nation. For countless generations, the trusteeship of the pipe had been handed down from father to son, always within the same blood line in the Sansarc tribe. The pipe was the most sacred object to all Sioux. This morning, as usual, it was wrapped in its special bundle of purifying sagebrush and hung from a special tripod in a medicine lodge which only the elder Elk Head might enter. His two sons mounted constant guard outside, however, within easy earshot of their father should danger approach.

The history of the pipe was ancient, dating far beyond the earliest winter count which went back less than a century and a half. Long winters ago, during a time of great hunger, two Sansarc hunters once went out in search of game...

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