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Paha Sapa, a Sioux soldier, first confronts as General George Armstrong Custer lies dying on the battlefield at Little Bighorn. He thinks--as do the holy men of his group--that the renowned standardis cat joined him at that minute and can stay with him till Sapa convinces him to leave.In DARK Slopes, Dan Simmons weaves the tales of Paha Sapa and Custer together effortlessly, showing a chaotic and tumultuous amount of time in the real history of Native Americans and america Military. Haunted by the speech of the overall his people named "Long Hair," Paha Sapa lives a long life, powered by a vision he encounters in the Black Mountains which are his group's birthplace. Being an explosives employee on the huge Support Rushmore task, he might eventually be gone his spirits--on the evening FDR involves South Dakota to devote the Jefferson encounter.