American Indian Trails of the West

Destiny in MontanaThe Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is a sacred site of pilgrimage. Two great cultures met on a barren plain. One lost the battle. The other lost everything. —L.C. Soubier These words reflect one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their ancestral way of life. The serene 1.5-mile Little Bighorn, Montana, valley—once the village of approximately 6,000 to 8,000 Lakota (Sioux) and Cheyenne, with a warrior force of 1,500 to 2,000 me