A rarified eye - watcher account from the perspective of aNative Americanman of the   Battle of the Little Bighorn has been discovered by the   Peel Art Gallery , Museum and Archives .

The conflict   – roll in the hay to Native Americans at the meter as the Battle of the Greasy Grass   – take blank space near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory . It ascertain   Lakota Sioux , Northern Cheyenne , and Arapaho tribes face off against   federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer , take after a perfidy of a treaty by the US Government . Prior to the battle   and throughout the 19th Century , the U.S. Government had been attempting to confine Native Americans to reservation , which tribes of the areadid not receive . After the breakthrough of gold in South Dakota ’s Black Hills in Native American territory , the US Government ignored accord between the two groups and intrude on .

Not many accounts are available from the US Army side , pass how precisely 100 percent of the soldier were kill . As well as it being rare to have an account of the engagement from eyewitnesses , it ’s fabulously uncommon to have a written   – rather than oral – account like the one handed to   the Peel Art Gallery , Museum and Archives .

The account – written   nearly 60 years after the battle   – describes how Lakota leader Standing Bear witness the conflict , and the arrival of Custer ’s men , shortly after he had attend a Sun Dance observance .

" I heard a man shouting that the soldier were coming , " theaccount shown to CBC Radio show . " They had shoot a boy that was on his way to get our horse . I run back and see that another man was bringing our horses , I spring onto a horse but I did n’t have prison term to primp , I had only my shirt but no shoes .

I drive with my uncle in the direction toward Reno when on the hill we see Custer advancing . Before we cause closer we saw hundreds upon hundreds of our multitude around us . A few of them had gun and most of them had bows and arrows . "

The letter was accompanied by a draftsmanship of the Sun Dance observance , include an illustration of Lakota leaderSitting Bull , though due to depictions of a sacred ceremony , it is unsung whether it will be publish .