Summary

Chapter 6 is titled “Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.” Once in Montana, Jimmy and Nyles stop at the site of the Little Bighorn battlefield. Jimmy is interested in the fact that there are sites commemorating battles won by the warriors. “The whites had lost the battles, and yet they wanted to remember it” (87). The older of the two monuments sits atop the mass grave where the white soldiers died. Jimmy sees many white headstones marking where a soldier had fallen. “One of them bore the name of George A. Custer, the commanding officer of the U.S. Seventh Calvary” (88). Though the hill is called Last Stand Hill, Nyles says there was no “last stand.” They drove four miles to Reno-Benteen Hill where the battle began.

The next subsection is titled The way it was – June 25-26, 1876. Warriors had been joining the Lakota leader Sitting Bull...