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A 5 page book review of this text. Colonel W.A. Graham's The Story of the Little Big Horn was first published in 1926. Not surprisingly, Graham uses the language of the time in describing the battle of the Little Big Horn, which was a resounding defeat of American troops under the leadership of Major-General George Armstrong Custer, the battle which soon became known as a "massacre" in the mainstream press. Graham uses the language of the time--whites are described as "forward-looking people," Native Americans are "savages," and the plunder of Native American land is pictured in terms of American Manifest Destiny (Graham 3). Nevertheless, despite this prejudicial and highly biased language, Graham's book does attempt to offer a fair and historically account of the battle and he pictures it as a clash between civilizations, rather than as a "massacre" by "savages." No additional sources cited.
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describing the battle of the Little Big Horn, which was a resounding defeat of American troops under the leadership of Major-General George Armstrong Custer, the battle which soon became known
as a "massacre" in the mainstream press. Graham uses the language of the time--whites are described as "forward-looking people," Native Americans are "savages," and the plunder of Native American land
is pictured in terms of American Manifest Destiny (Graham 3). Nevertheless, despite this prejudicial and highly biased language, Grahams book does attempt to offer a fair and historically account of
the battle and he pictures it as a clash between civilizations, rather than as a "massacre" by "savages." Graham begins his text with an introduction that provides background for
understanding the historical context of the battle. He relates how in 1868, the US government instigated a treaty with the Dakotas (who are also known as the Sioux), which allocated
to this Native American people a large region of land in the northwest that would their "forever" (Graham 4). The Indian territory included the tribes favorite hunting grounds, the Black
Hills and certain adjoining lands (Graham 4). However, after the treaty was signed, gold was discovered on Indian land, which resulted in the "inroads of covetous whites" (Graham 5).
In 1874, according to Graham, Custer was sent into the Black Hills for exploratory purposes, which "naturally" aroused anger among Native Americans as this constituted an invasion of their land,
as well, and "their protests (were) unheeded" (Graham 5). First of all, Graham admits that the treaty with the Dakotas was violated and, consequently, that the Native Americans had a
right to be angry. He also points out that some Sioux leaders, such as Sitting Bull, never accepted the treaty (Graham 5). In the beginning of his book,
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