What Indian killed General Custer?

On June 22, Terry ordered the 7th Cavalry under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Custer to scout ahead for Indians. On the morning ... to reservations. Crazy Horse was killed in 1877 after leaving the reservation without permission. Sitting Bull was shot and killed three years later in 1890 by a Lakota policeman. read more

The general consensus is that White Bull, nephew of Sitting Bull killed Custer and did not know who it was until after the battle was over. Several warriors of different tribes bore witness many years later. It was kept quiet because of fear of retaliation on White Bull and his family. read more

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1857, where he graduated last in his class in 1861. read more

Fanciful 1876 illustration of Lieutenant Colonel Custer on horseback and his U.S. Army troops making their last charge at the Battle of the Little Bighorn Crow Indian Reservation, 1868 (area 619 and 635). read more