The Message

The message in this album is both historical and contemporary. It is one of hope and endurance, of tolerance and forgiveness - and of love; love for a people, a nation, a culture that blazed so brightly and was nearly extinguished so quickly and violently. It survives today and will continue to do so, a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Survivors of Battle of the Little Bighorn 1876 (pictured)
Survivors of Battle of the Little Bighorn at reunion in Black Hills of South Dakota, September 2, 1948. Left to right: Little Warrior, Pemmican, Little Soldier, Dewey Beard, John Sitting Bull, High Eagle, Iron Hawk, Comes Again.

Photograph by Bill Groethe, Rapid City, South Dakota.