#i think Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee said the collective camps amounted to 10k people

[spiritofjustice]

it’s crazy how leading up to Custer’s Seventh Cavalry going off to the Little Bighorn to find Sitting Bull’s camp that everyone seemed to recognize that they were probably going to die. people writing goodbye letters to loved ones and drawing up their wills. what’s up with that. were they intimidated by the purported numbers of the camp? Custer seemed to think there’d be at least 1500 warriors ready. they knew it was a huge camp at the very least, the last big hostile camp left far as anyone knew, so maybe that’s what spooked them. it’s interesting.

#Psy's no punctuation posts #history tag #custerposting #it's wild esp looking at it now. knowing everyone who went there did not return #to their credit they were right to assume the camp was huge #i think Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee said the collective camps amounted to 10k people