Editing Battle of the Little Bighorn (section)

==Participants==

===7th Cavalry officers===
* Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. [[George Armstrong Custer]] (killed)
* Maj. [[Marcus Reno]]
* Adjutant: 1st Lt. [[William W. Cooke]] (killed)
* Assistant Surgeon [[George Edwin Lord]] (killed)
* Acting Assistant Surgeon [[James Madison DeWolf]] (killed)
* Acting Assistant Surgeon [[Henry Rinaldo Porter]]
* Chief of Scouts: 2nd Lt. [[Charles Varnum]] (detached from A Company, wounded)
* 2nd in command of Scouts: 2nd Lt. [[Luther Hare]] (detached from K Company)
* Pack Train commander: 1st Lt. Edward Gustave Mathey (detached from M Company)
* A Company: Capt. [[Myles Moylan]], 1st Lt. [[Charles DeRudio]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.derudio.co.uk/PAGE%20two.htm |title=Count Carlo Di Rudio at Little Bighorn |publisher=Derudio.co.uk |access-date=2012-03-15 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425135359/http://www.derudio.co.uk/PAGE%20two.htm |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* B Company: Capt. [[Thomas Mower McDougall|Thomas McDougall]], 2nd Lt. Benjamin Hodgson (killed) as Adjutant to Major Reno
* C Company: Capt. [[Thomas Custer]] (killed), 2nd Lt. [[Henry Moore Harrington]] (killed)
* D Company: Capt. [[Thomas Weir (American soldier)|Thomas Weir]], 2nd Lt. [[Winfield Scott Edgerly|Winfield Edgerly]]
* E Company: 1st Lt. [[Algernon Smith]] (killed), 2nd Lt. James G. Sturgis (killed)
* F Company: Capt. [[George Yates]] (killed), 2nd Lt. William Reily (killed)
* G Company: 1st Lt. [[Donald McIntosh]] (killed), 2nd Lt. George D. Wallace
* H Company: Capt. [[Frederick Benteen]], 1st Lt. Francis Gibson
* I Company: Capt. [[Myles Keogh]] (killed), 1st Lt. [[James Porter (7th Cavalry)|James Porter]] (killed)
* K Company: 1st Lt. [[Edward Settle Godfrey]]
* L Company: 1st Lt. [[James Calhoun (7th Cavalry)|James Calhoun]] (killed), 2nd Lt. [[John Jordan Crittenden III|John J. Crittenden]] (killed)
* M Company: Capt. Thomas French
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File:Soldier memorial little bighorn 1.jpg|Memorial Marker as seen from the east
File:Soldier memorial little bighorn 3.jpg|Memorial Marker plaque
File:Soldier memorial little bighorn 2.jpg|Memorial Marker as seen from the west
File:Where custer fell little big horn.jpg|Marker indicating where General Custer fell among soldiers – denoted with black-face, in center of photo
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===Native American leaders and warriors===
[[File:Arapaho woman Pretty Nose, 1879, restored.jpg|thumb|[[Pretty Nose]] who, according to her grandson, was a woman war chief who participated in the battle]]
[[File:CheyenneStone.JPG|thumb|Marker stone on the battlefield]]

The Lakota had formed a "Strongheart Society" of caretakers and providers for the camp, consisting of men who had demonstrated compassion, generosity and bravery. As the purpose of the tribes' gathering was to take counsel, they did not constitute an army or warrior class.<ref name="lapointe ">{{Citation|title=Ernie Lapointe Family Oral History of Little Big Horn Battle| date=March 24, 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3NIrXW92s| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121201529/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3NIrXW92s| archive-date=2017-11-21|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* '''Hunkpapa (Lakota)''': [[Sitting Bull]], Four Horns, [[Crow King]], [[Gall (Native American leader)|Chief Gall]], [[Black Moon (person)|Black Moon]], [[Rain-in-the-Face]], [[Moving Robe Woman]], Spotted Horn Bull, Iron Hawk, [[One Bull]], Bull Head, Chasing Eagle, [[Little Big Man]]
* '''Sihasapa (Blackfoot Lakota)''': Crawler, [[Kill Eagle]]
* '''Minneconjou (Lakota)''': Chief Hump, [[Black Moon (person)|Black Moon]], [[Red Horse (Lakota chief)|Red Horse]], Makes Room, Looks Up, [[Lame Deer]], Dog-with-Horn, Dog Back Bone, [[White Bull (Native American)|White Bull]], Feather Earring, Flying By
* '''Sans Arc (Lakota)''': Spotted Eagle, Red Bear, Long Road, Cloud Man
* '''Oglala (Lakota)''': [[Crazy Horse]], [[He Dog]], [[Kicking Bear]], [[Flying Hawk]], Chief Long Wolf, [[Black Elk]], White Cow Bull, [[Running Eagle]], Black Fox II, [[Chief Big Road|Big Road]]
* '''Brule (Lakota)''': Two Eagles, [[Hollow Horn Bear]], Brave Bird
* '''Two Kettles (Lakota)''': Runs-the-Enemy
* '''Lower Yanktonai (Dakota)''': Thunder Bear, Medicine Cloud, Iron Bear, Long Tree
* '''Wahpekute (Dakota)''': [[Inkpaduta]], Sounds-the-Ground-as-He-Walks, White Eagle, White Tracking Earth
* '''Black Powder (Sioux Firearms trader)''': Black Powder, Johann Smidt
* '''Northern Cheyenne''': [[Two Moons]], [[Wooden Leg]], Old Bear, [[Lame White Man]] (killed), American Horse, Brave Wolf, Antelope Women, Thunder Bull Big Nose, Yellow Horse, Little Shield, Horse Road, Bob Tail Horse, Yellow Hair, Bear-Walks-on-a-Ridge, Black Hawk, [[Buffalo Calf Road Woman]], Crooked Nose, Noisy Walking
* '''Arapahoes''': Waterman, Sage, Left Hand, Yellow Eagle, Little Bird

===Arapaho participation===
Modern-day accounts include [[Arapaho]] warriors in the battle, but the five Arapaho men who were at the encampments were there only by accident. While on a hunting trip they came close to the village by the river and were captured and almost killed by the Lakota who believed the hunters were scouts for the U.S. Army. [[Two Moons]], a Northern Cheyenne leader, interceded to save their lives.<ref>Graham, ''The Custer Myth'', p. 109.</ref>

===Notable scouts/interpreters===
The 7th Cavalry was accompanied by a number of scouts and interpreters:
* [[Bloody Knife]]: Arikara/Lakota scout (killed)
* Bob Tailed Bull: Arikara scout (killed)
* Boy Chief: Arikara scout
* [[Charley Reynolds]]: scout (killed)
* [[Curly (scout)|Curley]]: Crow scout
* Curling Head: Arikara scout
* [[Fred Gerard]]: interpreter
* [[Goes Ahead]]: Crow scout
* Goose: Arikara scout (wounded in the hand by a 7th Cavalry trooper)
* [[Hairy Moccasin]]: Crow scout
* [[Half Yellow Face, Crow Indian|Half Yellow Face]], leader of Crow Scouts, also known as Paints Half His Face Yellow<ref name="curtis">Curtis, E. (1907) [http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/ ''The North American Indian. Vol. 3''. The Sioux] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223022135/http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/|date=February 23, 2016}}.</ref>{{rp|46}}
* [[Isaiah Dorman]]: interpreter (killed)
* Little Brave: Arikara scout (killed)
* Little Sioux: Arikara scout
* [[Mitch Bouyer]]: scout/interpreter (killed)
* One Feather: Arikara scout
* Owl: Arikara scout
* Peter Jackson: half-Pikuni and half Blackfoot brother of William, scout
* Red Bear: Arikara scout
* Red Star: Arikara scout
* Running Wolf: Arikara scout
* Sitting Bear: Arikara scout
* Soldier: Arikara scout
* Strikes The Lodge: Arikara scout
* Strikes Two: Arikara scout
* [[Two Moons]]: Arikara/Cheyenne scout
* [[White Man Runs Him]]: Crow scout
* [[White Swan]]: Crow Scout (severely wounded)
* William Jackson: half-Pikuni and half Blackfoot scout
* Young Hawk: Arikara scout

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File:Edward Curtis with Crow Indians 1908.jpg|Three of Custer's scouts accompanying [[Edward S. Curtis|Edward Curtis]] on his investigative tour of the battlefield, circa 1907. Left to right: [[Goes Ahead]], [[Hairy Moccasin]], [[White Man Runs Him]], Curtis and [[Alexander B. Upshaw]] (Curtis's assistant and Crow interpreter)
File:Portrait of Curley, A Crow Indian Scout with the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn - NARA - 533090 NewEdit.tif|Curley, Custer's Crow scout and interpreter through the battle.
File:CurlyPhilKonstantin.jpg|Grave of Curley
File:Crow Scouts 1913.jpg|Former U.S. Army [[Crow scouts]] visiting the Little Bighorn battlefield, circa 1913
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