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This presentation explores the historical weight and the decolonial implications of the conflict traditionally known as Custer’s Last Stand, reframing it through the perspective of the Native victors who call it the Battle of the Greasy Grass. The event took place on June 25th and 26th, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Montana Territory. It involved a strategic alliance of Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes who stood against the US Army’s 7th Cavalry, led by General G