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===Native American warriors=== Estimates of Native American casualties have differed widely, from as few as 36 dead (from Native American listings of the dead by name) to as many as 300.<ref>Hardorff, ''Hokayhey!'', p. 13.</ref> Lakota chief [[Red Horse (Lakota chief)|Red Horse]] told Col. W. H. Wood in 1877 that the Native Americans suffered 136 dead and 160 wounded during the battle.<ref>Graham, Col. W. A. ''The Custer Myth''. NY, Bonanza Books, 1953, p. 60.</ref> In 1881, Red Horse told Dr. C. E. McChesney the same numbers but in a series of drawings done by Red Horse to illustrate the battle, he drew only sixty figures representing Lakota and Cheyenne casualties. Of those sixty figures, only thirty-some are portrayed with a conventional Plains Indian method of indicating death. In the last 140 years, historians have been able to identify multiple Indian names pertaining to the same individual, which has greatly reduced previously inflated numbers. Today a list of positively known casualties exists that lists 99 names, attributed and consolidated to 31 identified warriors.<ref>{{cite web|last=Thomas|first=Rodney G.|title=Indian Casualties of the Little Big Horn Battle|url=http://www.littlebighorn.info/Articles/IndianCasualties.pdf|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403040007/http://www.littlebighorn.info/Articles/IndianCasualties.pdf|archive-date=April 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> {{Gallery |title=Red Horse pictographic account of Lakota casualties in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881 |align=center |height=150px |width=150px |File:Red-Horse-cabinet-card.jpg|Red Horse |File:Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. 0000.png| |File:Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. 0100.png| |File:Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. 0200.png|Plate XLIV |File:Lakota casualites.jpg|Plate XLV |File:Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1888) (19363409875).jpg|Indians leaving the Battlefield Plate XLVIII }}
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