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...senility seeps through the cracks in his voice. But Crabb is not your average superannuated former Indian fighter, former Indian, intimate of Wild Bill Hickok and General George Armstrong Custer, ex-gunslinger, scalawag and drunkard. No sir. He is Little Big Man, sole survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn. He may tell a stretcher or two, but when he reminisces, graduate students listen. A budding anthropologist starts a tape recorder, Crabb opens his toothless yawp and the saga unfurls...
...that begins with robust rawhide humor, turns to profundity−and then collapses into petulant editorial. In the era of occupied Alcatraz, surely it is no news that the white man spoke with forked tongue, that the first Americans were maltreated as the last savages. The Battle of Little Bighorn, which should be the film's climax, is its weakest point. General Custer is pure Pig on the Prairie, babbling insanely as the consummate racist militant. As overplayed by Richard Mulligan, he could be sectioned, labeled Swift's Premium and sold in butcher shops...
Beneath eagle feathers grinned the Crow Indians' new pipe carrier-better known as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel. The outspoken Cabinet member stopped off at the Crow reservation in Montana's Bighorn mountain area to be inducted into the tribe. The title is only honorary; the Crows' real pipe carrier is Henry Old Coyote, whose brother, Barney Old Coyote, translated the proceedings, which were conducted in Crow. Responded Conservationist Hickel, using the white man's tongue: "You have learned to live with nature without abusing...
...Hills in the summer of 1874, the story goes, looking for gold. He discovered it and set off a gold rush that drove the hostile Teton Sioux out of their Dakota country and eventually forced them to make a last desperate stand on the banks of the Little Bighorn in Montana...
...recounting Custer's last battle. One fanciful notion about Custer's motivations, however, seems to be just too speculative to be taken seriously. Miss Sandoz reasoned that the 36-year-old soldier was burning to be President of the U.S. He began his march toward the Little Bighorn on June 22, five days before the Democratic National Convention was to meet in St. Louis. Custer, according to the author, hoped to achieve a spectacular victory over the Sioux, after which the convention would be stampeded into rewarding him with the presidential nomination. Just how Custer expected to achieve...