General Custer’s Six Crow Scouts
General Custer’s contribution to the battle of Little Bighorn was invaluable, but he couldn’t have achieved what he did without his six Crow scouts seen standing over the graves on the Little Bighorn battlefield in 1908. The Crow scouts helped Custer defeat the Sioux in battle. A Blackfoot chief recalled what Colonel John Gibbon had said before the battle began: “If the Crows want to make war upon the Sioux, now is their time. If they want to drive them from this country and prevent them from sending war parties into their (Crow) country to murder their men, now is the time.”