, all the way west to the eastern border of california, and even spilling over into the northwest, pacific northwest, from the border of canada all the way south beyond arizona and texas, new mexico, even into northern mexico. the principle tribes, i will limit my remarks to the principal tribes that we will be talking about this evening, they are the tribes of the lakota nation that occupied much of eastern montana, dakota territory, and some of nebraska, the northern cheyenne. closer to home, the shoshone, the crow, the southern cheyenne, the kyowa, the pawnee of nebraska, and the modoc or and idaho. those of the tribes we will be referring to. the lakota nation, the largest most powerful indian people on the plains, allies of northern cheyenne, southern cheyenne, the apache, the shoshone, crow, pawnee of nebraska, and the modoc of the oregon-california border. ok, i hope i have given you a bit of a field. i apologize for the size of this map. let's go ahead and debunk our three myths, beginning with the false notion that the army was eager to kill indians. does anyone recognize this jaunty gentleman? that's right. general george crook. he had a habit of i