December 21st, 1866: Today is the 149th anniversary of the great victory of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors over US soldiers near Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming. Captain Wm J. Fetterman and all his 80-man command were killed in a battle remembered (depending which side you were on) as "the Fetterman Massacre" or "The Hundred in the Hands". Leaders on the native side included Red Cloud and High Backbone (among the strategic leaders shaping the battle) and 26-year old Crazy Horse, cementing his reputation as tactical leader of the party that successfully decoyed Fetterman's command into ambush beyond reach of reinforcements. Here we have another of Paul Goble's masterful variations on Indian artistic conventions, depicting the attack on the post wood train that started the fateful ball rolling that December a.m. (Pilamayayelo Kingsley)
