“This is a good day to die. Follow me!”

— Sitting Bull

Rallying cry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25 June 1876), quoted in Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west by Judson Elliott Walker

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Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831–1890

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