Bighorn: Medicine Wheel and Custer’s Last Stand
August 27, 2009
Today we left Yellowstone National Park. We went to the Bighorn Medicine Wheel. It is a religious place for Native Americans. It’s like a circle of rocks.
The Native Americans tie things to the rope around the medicine wheel and pray. It has been here for one thousand years.
Later, we went to Custer’s Last Stand. It’s the place where General Custer and the 7th Calvary fought a group of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.
It was because the European Americans wanted the Indians on reservations, and they did not want to. As more and more pioneers and settlers moved West, there were more and more conflicts between the Indians and them.
No one is sure about what happened to General Custer and the 7th Calvary because only one horse lived, and no humans.
