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as a founder and a notch up north, you should work for a monopoly where you have no competition at all. >> for the next two hours, a look at the lives of native americans, part of c-span's american history tour. we start with the battle of little bit on followed by a tour of pueblo, new mexico. native american pictographs in montana. later, a visit to a spanish mission in florida. >> in the battle of little bit on, also known as custer's last stand, sue and cheyenne warriors if you did the seventh cavalry regiment of the united states army killed a commanding u.s. officer, lieutenant colonel george custer. we will hear about the conflict from a park ranger at the little bighorn battlefield national monument in montana.

>> folks, this is an incredible story. it's a story that attracts 400,000 people a year from all over the world. come through that gate. the vast majority of them, 90% of the time never been here in their lives. i like to see who you are this morning. if you've never been here in your life, please put your hand up. now hold it way up. now, just look around. it's always the same. 90% of the folks come here never been here in their life, and yet, except for these little tykes over here, there's nobody in this audience who has never heard of george armstrong custer. there's nobody in this audience who has never heard of sitting bull or crazy horse.

and i promise you this, there's nobody here who has never heard of elvis presley. well, folks, it's a simple story. and yet it's a complex story. you are on the battlefield right now. and it stretches five miles to the south of us, well beyond the in the hill, way out there, five miles. on june 25, 1876, george armstrong custer with 647 troops will attack a massive camp located about a mile and a half to two miles to the south of us down in the river valley bottom. there's 8,000 people in that village. 1,500 to 2,000 of them are warriors. custer will have 647 troops. it's the only battlefield in the country, only one of two in the whole world, where white markers indicate where soldiers were killed on the battlefield and buried where they fell. red markers, like the one at the mouth of deep ravine, just to

the left of this gentleman, 17 warrior markers across the battlefield, much more warriors died in the fight. but we've got 17 markers placed there by oral histories and families. they're not buried on the battlefield. they are picked up very quickly and later buried in trees and caves and scaffolding. on top of the hill, just below the monument, custer perishes at the age of 36 years old. buried in an 18-inch grave. disinterred a year later, what was left of him, placed in a box about this big, taken back to west point, where he's buried today. five years after the battle, skeletal remains all over the ground scraped up by reburial detail, placed in a mass grave on top of the hill in 1881 where the monument now stands. across the street, the indian memorial dedicated in 2003 to the warriors and tribes who

fought here in a desperate attempt to hang on to their very way of life. and behind us, a national cemetery with the remains of nearly 5,000 veterans and their families, not related to the battle, like arlington veterans, spanish-american war, world war i, world war ii, korea, and vietnam. closed in 1978, full to capacity today. folks, it's quiet here now. it's peaceful. tranquility here. but 137 years ago, on the back of that ridge, it was far from quiet. in fact, it was apocalyptic chaos, gunfire, smoke, yelling, screaming, cursing, more ammo,