Скачать или смотреть Powder River: When a Winter Ambush Changed the Indian Wars

On March 17, 1876, in the frozen valley of the Powder River in Montana Territory, a “small” winter raid quietly rewired the entire course of the Indian Wars. This film recreates that day from both sides of the snow.

From General George Crook’s orders and Colonel Joseph Reynolds’ desperate winter column… to the Cheyenne campfire world of Tamanee, Little Elk, and their elders who believed winter itself was a shield… we follow how one dawn ambush burned more than lodges. It burned a season of survival.

Through field reports, court of inquiry transcripts, and Native testimony from leaders like Two Moons, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse, we track how the Powder River attack, the ravine ambush on the retreating herd, and the political fallout in army hearing rooms all fed directly into Rosebud and Little Bighorn.

If you only know the story of Custer’s Last Stand, this is the forgotten winter chapter that set the match. A cold, unsentimental look at how destroying ponies and winter stores became official strategy—and how the people who lived under that snow remembered it long after the tracks were gone.

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