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Located on the west side of No Name Bay. The campground includes 42 asphalt camping pads. Of those 42, 30 pads have 30 amp electrical pedestals. Four pads have 50 amp pedestals, and eight pads have 50 amp pedestals along with water and sewer hook-ups. Fee's for staying at Little Thunder are as follows:
$15.00
per night on camping pad $19.00 per night with 50 amp electricity
$19.00 per night with 50 amp/water/sewer The campground is named in honor of Little Thunder, a popular leader of the Brule tribe of the Lakota Sioux Nation. He often chose this area to camp and hunt buffalo during nomadic travels. Little Thunder has most often been noted for efforts to compromise with the white immigrants. Today, he represents a symbol of a man of good character and honor, swept up in a tide of war and conflict, worthy to be remembered by having this campground named in his honor. In 1855, on the banks of Blue Water Creek some 15 miles to the west, a historical battle was fought between the United States Army, under the leadership of Gen. William S. Harney, and a band of the Lakota Nation led by Chief Little Thunder. General Harney, under orders to find and engage the Sioux Indians responsible for the Grattan Massacre, rode out of the Ash Hollow campground and, after discussion with Little Thunder, attacked the camp. The casualties listed 86 Lakota killed, and 70 women and children taken as prisoners. For the U.S. Army, accounts list 12 killed or missing. After the Grattan Massacre, reports indicate that Little Thunder was one voice that counseled against an attack on Fort Laramie. But, as is often the case in times of war, the larger forces of westward expansion and cultural conflict overlooked the personal motive. Little Thunder survived the battle although severely wounded. |
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