Death of Custer, scene by Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show performers c. 1905 of Sitting Bull's stabbing Custer, with dead Native Americans lying on ground
On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Battle of Little Big Horn) Lakota, Arikara, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho defended Sioux and Cheyenne families living in south central Montana in a battle with the Seventh Regiment of the United States Cavalry.
As explained in An Indigenous Peoplesβ History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza:
In June 1876, a large encampment of nontreaty Sioux and Cheyenne families was gathered along the Little Bighorn River. Later that month, Custer and the Seventh Cavalry prepared to attack the encampment, but warriors led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull successfully intercepted them. Most textbooks call this the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but Lakota and Cheyenne people, especially those whose ancestors defended the encampment villages, know it as the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
Sioux chief Sitting Bull and Lakota leader Crazy Horse directed their warriors against Lieutenant George Armstrong Custerβs regiment of over 225 cavalry men near the Little Bighorn River. Custer and his men died in the battle, and the united tribes claimed victory over the U.S. military that week.
But the victory against the United States was short-lived. Crazy Horse died in 1877 in U.S. military custody, as that government worked steadily to disarm the nations of the western plains and force their people onto reservations. Sitting Bull lived another 14 years and was murdered at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation by an Indian Agent. He was targeted for his political power and his participation in the anti-imperialist spiritual movement, Ghost Dance.
Marble markers for the Seventh Cavalry were erected in 1890, but it was not until Memorial Day of 1999 that red granite markers were added to the historic site to honor the memory of the Lakota, Sioux, Arikara, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho who died the week of the Battle of Greasy Grass.
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There is mad wildlife outside my basement window. Lots of little bugs crawling across a white wall with one of the biggest spiders looming over them that I've ever seen in the wild. She is an absolute unit. And then on the other side of Big Mama's web there is a different, smaller spider of a different species, and an even smaller spider sitting on the wall circling the bugs. It's quite the spectacle (if you're a weird spider guy like me).
I will never understand spiders, man. They're cannibalistic and fundamentally non-social creatures yet every so often you see multiple spiders chilling alongside one another in the same web complex where they can clearly sense each other. Sometimes it's a female in the center and a male somewhere in the corner at a safe distance, but other times it's just two cannibalistic neighbors who seem to have a mutual agreement not to kill each other for some reason. Those two outside my window are like 4 inches apart.
Update: Just as I typed this, Big Mama pounced on something but it doesn't seem like she got it. The other spider didn't even flinch. Why do they not kill each other? How is Lil' Missy so confident that Big Mama isn't gonna eat her? Even higher mammals with the ability to communicate will avoid and/or attack each other if they're competing for the same territory. Spiders barely even have a brain and no way of communicating outside of mating rituals, and even those tend to end with the female eating the male, often before it gets a chance to mate. How are these two extremely simple-minded, anti-social, cannibalistic predators who are competing for the same prey just... hanging out? 4 inches apart?
I am so very puzzled by this.
You said there's lots of other bugs right? The spiders probably don't need too much to be fed, maybe they just all know they have webs in primo spots and don't need to compete. I've seen a similar set up with huge and little spiders all together like a spider web neighborhood in an area with tons of mosquitos and flies where they just had an endless supply food flying at them.
I once saw about two hundred orb weavers all set up alongside a school bus in a junkyard. They were all living large and eating prime. I think it was because of the junkyard lights at night to dissuade thieves but that attracted millions of flying bugs, which would get caught, obviously.