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Most Americans have heard of the Little Bighorn the 1876 battle in which a band of Lakota Sioux and their allies wiped out most of the 7th US Cavalry under the command of George Armstrong Custer The movie images are of fierce warriors in long eagle feather headdresses flowing behind them as they gallop across the plains on nimble Indian ponies In fact many Americans know the names of the commanders who beat Custer most notably Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse and there are famous photographs of the stolid looking copperskinned Sitting Bull participating in Buffalo Bills Wild West Show