At Laramie I told the commissioners that I had seen the Sioux commit a massacre; they killed many white men. But the Sioux are still here, and still kill white men. When you whites whip the Sioux come and tell us of it. You are afraid of the Sioux. Two years ago I went with the soldiers; they talked very brave. they said they were going through the Sioux country to Powder River and Tongue River. WE got to Pryor Creek, just below here in Crow country. I wanted to go ahead, but the soldiers got scared and turned back. the soldiers were the whirlwind, but the whirlwind turned back. Last summer the soldiers went to Pryor creek again; again the whirlwind was going through Sioux country, but again the whirlwind turned back. We Crows are not the whirlwind, but we go to the Sioux; we go to their country; we meet them and fight them; we do not turn back, but then we are not the whirlwind! ... The Sioux are on the way, and you are afraid of them; they will turn the whirlwind back.
Blackfoot
Crow War Chief

The people must be left with nothing but their eyes to weep with.
Lt Gen Philip H Sheridan

The "Sibley Scout" is famous among Indian fighters as being one of the narrowest escapes from savages now on record

Editorial

The New York Tribune

Toward the end of the perilous march [of the Sibley patrol], we all became so weakened that we marched for ten minutes and then would lie down and rest. Several of the more robust men became insane, and one or two never regained their wits.

Lt Frederick W Sibley

For the Indiana who gloried in the victory of the Little Big Horn, Slim Buttes heralded the retaliatory blows, that ultimately broke their resistance and forced their submission...the actions of Sept 9 and 10, 1876, commenced the relentless punitive warfare that was to be waged over the next eight months, until the tribesmen either had died or had gone peaceably to the agencies - Jerome A Green, Slim Buttes, 1876