James Comes Again, an Oglala Sioux apprentice warrior in 1876, witnessed much of the Battle of Little Bighorn, before joining a large party of youngsters who got in on the tail-end of the fighting in the final surround of Custer’s immediate command. He later became a prominent medicine-man.
“More a curer than a formal religious leader, he told me much about the art of healing in knowing nothing, including health, could be lost if one believed strongly enough, and in gaining power fro ‘relatives’ in the natural world.” – Red Shirt Village 1937
