** A “fast-paced and highly absorbing” (Wall Street Journal) history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn**. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer’s vaunted Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876. Both had grown to manhood on the High Plains of the American West, in an era when vast herds of buffalo covered the earth, and when their nomadic people could move freely. The Battle of Little Bighorn was the beginning of the end for their treasured and sacred way of life. Drawing on a wealth of previously ignored primary sources, award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner delivers the definitive chronicle, thrillingly told, of these extraordinary Indigenous leaders. _The Earth Is All That Lasts_ is a grand saga, both triumphant and tragic, of their struggle to maintain the freedom of their people against impossible odds. Presented by the American Inspiration Series from American Ancestors/NEHGS in partnership with GBH Forum Network. ### Resources - Books _Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas_ by Josephine Waggoner (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013) _The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger_, edited by Thomas R. Buecker and R. Eli Paul (Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1994) _The Sitting Bull Surrender Census: The Lakotas at Standing Rock Agency, 1881_ by Ephriam D. Dickson III (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2010) _Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy_ by Ernie LaPointe, Great-Grandson of Sitting Bull (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2009)
