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After the battle, Sioux and Cheyenne removed their dead and buried them in tipis, scaffolds, and adjacent hillsides in the Little Bighorn valley. Southern Cheyenne Chief Ve’ho’enohnenehe, or Lame White Man, and Northern Cheyenne Nestonevahtsestse, or Noisy Walking, fell below this ridge during the battle, and their families erected stone cairns at the sites where they became casualties. In 1916, Sioux and Cheyenne battle veterans showed the cairns to Cheyenne historian John Stands in Timber, who later showed them to Don Rickey, Jr. in 1956. On June 25, 1999, red granite markers were placed adjacent to the cairns as memorials and to help visitors understand known warrior casualty sites during the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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