A cir­cle of cal­vary troops dying to the last man is at the heart of Lit­tle Bighorn Bat­tle­field Nation­al Mon­u­ment in the dry, hori­­zon-fil­l­ing plains of east­ern Mon­tana. The truth about the events of that June in 1876 is often lost amidst the leg­end of Colonel George Custer and his last stand. The sto­ry of how the Plains Indi­ans scored their over­whelm­ing vic­to­ry at what they called the Bat­tle of Greasy Grass and the events that led up to it, includ­ing Custer’s geno­ci­dal cam­paign against Native Amer­i­cans, are told here, putting the bat­tle into con­text.