it resulted in the death of general george armstrong custer, who was a civil war hero. and in the death of 300 u.s. calvary men. this was the most shocking event in u.s. history of the late 19th century. but within a very short period after this event, within than ten years, plains, indian warrior, those who were reviled by americans become, a symbol of the united of america. in this exhibition, we explore how it is that the the little bighorn we immensely important in the consciousness of americans over a century and we explore exactly how it is that imagery of the indian warrior emerged as the stereotypical eran indian and also as a symbol of the united states. all of this is to say we will be exploring how the image of the indian warrior was used to justify manifest destiny. so our gallery explores the battle of the little bighorn is divided two halves in one half. we look at lakota concepts of warfare and what the battle of little bighorn was about from their perspective. and on the other side of the gallery we look at how it is that the americans respond to the bat

it resulted in the death of general george armstrong custer, who was a civil war hero. and in the death of 300 u.s. calvary men. this was the most shocking event in u.s. history of the late 19th century. but within a very short period after this event, within than ten years, plains, indian warrior, those who were reviled by americans become, a symbol of the united of america. in this exhibition, we explore how it is that the the little bighorn we immensely important in the consciousness of americans over a century and we explore exactly how it is that imagery of the indian warrior emerged as thetereypical american indian and also as a symbol of the united states. all of this is to say we will be exploring how the image of the indian warrior was used to justify manifest destiny. so our gallery explores the battle of the little bighorn is divided two halves in one half. we look at lakota concepts of warfare and what the battle of little bighorn was about from their perspective. and on the other side of the gallery we look at how it is that the americans respond to the bat

the challenges i enjoy and when it comes to a historical personage such as washington or george armstrong custer in my book about the battle of little bighorn, inevitable, what were these guys thinking? you can't make it up and so i find myself doing is saying this is what was happening around, this is what they would do, this is what perhaps they were thinking. you have to have evidence to go on. you have to go there, as someone writing about history. to leave it a blank is to leave out what it is like to be alive at that time. we come from a journalistic background where we are creating a sense of life is lived today as a journalist and the way we both tell history we are trying to create a sense of lives in the past because for me the past is only is relevant as can be related to us by now. >> host: things were different back then. they thought differently. if you were writing before the thirteenth century totally animated by religion. that is the way they think. that's true for some of us but we live in a secular age. the interesting translation problem, you write about the eighteenth centur