The Little Bighorn (Two Day Tour)
Come with us inside the village site along the Little Bighorn River as we experience the Lakota and Cheyenne perspectives, standing where Crazy Horse crossed the Little Bighorn River to meet Custer’s 7th, and then following the battle as it unfolded. We follow the story across the battlefield, learning not only of the fate of those who fought for their respective nations, but the lasting results of the battle into modern day times for the Lakota and Cheyenne peoples. Today you go beyond the stock offerings of historians whose versions of events show they have probably never experienced the actual terrain for themselves.
As an extra option, you have a unique opportunity to actually horseback ride on the Little Bighorn Battlefield itself, to truly see the terrain as these legendary warriors on each side saw it on June 25, 1876.
This tour takes two days to complete if we are to do justice to the event and to the lives of people who were involved
The Medicine Wheel
Atop Medicine Mountain in the Bighorns is a stone formed Medicine Wheel. Many locals say it is a ‘great mystery’, but we know that’s only if you don’t know whom to ask! We discuss the Massaum Ceremony, “the medicine dance of the ancients,” a beautiful and integral part of traditional Cheyenne culture in which the wolf, and the “Wolf’s Lodge,” is essential to creation, to life, and renewal in the spiritual and physical. This tour involves some walking – please wear comfy shoes and take water.
This guided tour is enjoyed best in conjunction with a stay in the mountains where you may enjoy fine dining, outstanding night skies and great accomodations amidst the domain of the four-leggeds and wingeds of the air.
The Wild Mustangs
With the coming of the reservations, Indian people found themselves imprisoned on small tracts of land, forbidden to hunt and provide for themselves and needing permits to leave. How do you hold a nation of horse people down? Take their horses! The army planned to kill Cheyenne and Crow pony herds but unable to allow that to happen to their ‘friends’ warriors instead took them to the Prior Mountains freeing them to live wild. The descendents of those very herds still roam today, and although they are shy we usually find them for you. Hear their story!
The Fetterman Miscalculation
An outstanding historical site, preserved to look almost exactly as it did that day of Dec 21st, 1866 when Captain William Judd Fetterman piled his company of 81 men over Lodge Tail Ridge in pursuit of Crazy Horse, the decoy who skillfully engineered them into a battle with the waiting Lakota and Cheyenne. Hear about the background to the fight, about the Cheyenne Contrary who foretold the result of the battle, and understand the historical details from both cultural perspectives. The site’s river-rock memorial inscription states there were no survivors, but that is not true – there were hundreds – they just happened to be Indian. Hear their stories!
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More great day tours in the Bighorns region - Wyoming and Montana
Crazy Horse and Crook at the Rosebud - The precursive battle to the Little Bighorn - a victory to the Cheyennes and also provided thr theatre for one of the greatest acts of bravery in Cheyenne history
The Sacred Deer Medicine Rocks - site of the Great Sundance prior to the Little Bighorn where Sitting Bull's vision of victory with soldiers falling upside down with no ears into camp, is carved into the rocks
Disaster at the Wagon Box - Lakota and Cheyennes couldn't have imagined the coming of Henry Repeating rifles, and this new technology brought disaster. 'Watch' events through their eyes.
The Northern Cheyenne Reservation Cuture tour - a foray into the historical and contemporary! Visit showplaces of Cheyenne heritage and art. Explore and enjoy the reservation landscape.
More great day tours in South Dakota here
Enter He Sapa Wakan - the Heart of Everything That Is - the sacred Black Hills, holy land of the Lakota people.
The incredible landscape of Maco Sica. Hear traditional stories, learn of traditional lifeways, explore ancient trails.
Visitors usually miss the most interesting explanation & stories of the Bear's Lodge. Did you know seven tribes hold it sacred?
Tour time: 2 DAYS TOUR! approx 10am
Starting point: The museum at Garryowen, MT
Lunch - not included - stop at the Trading Post
Cost: $550pp for 2 days (2 person minimum)
3 hr ride on Battlefield $120 pp
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We are able to offer a more general one day tour at $175pp
Tour time: approx 10am-5pm
Starting point: To be arranged
Lunch - not included - a mountain eaterie
Cost: $195pp (2 person minimum)
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Tour time: approx 10am-7pm
Starting point: To be arranged
Lunch (not included) Usually a sandwich lunch
Cost: $195pp (2 person minimum)
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Tour time: approx 10am-5pm
Starting point: To be arranged
Lunch: bring a packed lunch
Cost: $275pp (2 person minimum)
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