See MG 1 Brandon College Teaching and Administration, 1.11 Martin Johns fonds for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Photograph of a number of men in military uniform sitting around a dinner table on Christmas Eve 1944. The names on the back of the photograph are: "Big Swede," "Knuckles," "Shod's Boy," "Bathless," "Dad," Oh!, Angus MacToot, Pee Jay, Franklin Gee, "Three" and Eex.
As the Cheyenne and Sioux retreated south toward the 'White Rain (Bighorn) Mountains' following the Battle of Little Bighorn, many of the wounded warriors died. They were laid to rest in their finest clothing admits their cherished belongings atop burial scaffolds or within the branches of strong trees. It was here sorrowful families bid the fallen warriors spirit good-bye as it began its journey across the great divide. (Harbaugh, P., 1982)
