diers came upon us and we had to defend
ourselves. We were driven out of the Black Hills by the men seeking gold,
and our game was driven off, and we started on our journey in search of
game. Our children were starving, and we had to have something to eat.
There was buffalo in that region and we were moving, simply camping here
and there and fighting our Indian enemies as we advanced, in order to get
the game that was in this country. We fought this battle from daylight up
until three o'clock in the afternoon, and all of the white men were
killed. I think that Custer was a very brave man to fight all these
Indians with his few men from daylight until the sun was almost going
down.

THE STORY OF CHIEF RUNS-THE-ENEMY--SIOUX LEADER

I fought at the Custer fight with a band of one hundred and thirty
Two-Cattle Sioux under me. With the bravery and success I had had in
former battles, I was able to command the force at this fight. We were
encamped for two days in the valley of the Little Big Horn. The third day
we were going to break camp and move farther along, but the old men went
through the camp saying they were going to stay there still another day.
After the cry had gone through the camp that we were to remain, the horses
were all turned loose and were feeding on the hills north and west and
south, and we were resting in the camp. Everything was quiet. I went
over to the big tepee where there were several leading men, and we were
sitting there talking and smoking. About ten o'clock a band of Sioux, who
had been visiting the camp and had gone home, came rushing back with the
tidings that the soldiers were coming. We could hardly believe that the
soldiers were so near, and we were not very much depressed because of the
report for two reasons: the soldiers had gone back to Wyoming, and we did
not think they were near enough to attack us; and from the history of all
our tribe, away back for generations, it had never been known that
soldiers or Indians had attacked a Sioux camp in the daytime; they had
always waited for night to come. And still we sat there smoking. In a
short time we heard the report of rifles, and bullets whizzed through the
camp from the other side of the river. I left my pipe and ran as hard as
I could, as did all the others, to our tents. As I ran to my tent there
was a scream ran through the camp: "The soldiers are here! The soldiers
are here!" The Indians who were