The episode marks the 150th anniversary of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, recounting how Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s defeat was the culmination of decades of U.S. expansion, broken treaties, and Indigenous resistance. It frames the battle not as a sudden tragedy b
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