Tombstones at the Little Bighorn National Battlefield site near the Crow Agency community in the U.S. state of Montana, which memorializes the US Army's 7th Cavalry and the Lakotas and Cheyennes in one plains Indians' last armed efforts to preserve their way of life. Here on June 25 and 26 of 1876, 263 soldiers, including Lt. Col. George A. Custer and attached personnel died fighting several thousand Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2022.