Little Bighorn Tours
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Looking for things to do at the Little Bighorn Battlefield?
Come ride the Little Bighorn Battlefield with us
THE DEER MEDICINE ROCKS
LEARN ABOUT SITTING BULL'S VISION AT THE GREAT SUNDANCE
WHERE?
Lame Deer, MT
WHEN?
Tours run between May
and October.
Times to be arranged
STARTING POINT
Depending on your itinerary, we usually meet at the Wooden Tipi in Busby.
Directions given.
ENDING POINT
Wooden Tipi
ACTIVITY LEVEL
Uneven path around
uneven rocks
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
Guiding.
These tours are 'step-on' meaning your tour guide will join you in your vehicle with pre-arranged meeting
and drop-off points.
We do not include meals or hotels although if you would like us to help you organize other aspecs of your visit, we can usually help.
Experience for yourself that this rock has powerful medicine. It’s like putting the same poles of two magnets together The land-owner, whose family have ranched this property for more than a century, is scrupulous about letting local Cheyennes pray at the rocks as and when they need to.
Down one side of the rocks is the shadow of a lightning strike. ...which some say imbues the rocks with their sacred power
The Northern Cheyenne flag flies proudly above a tipi at the Northern Cheyenne powwow
Experience for yourself that this rock has powerful medicine. It’s like putting the same poles of two magnets together The land-owner, whose family have ranched this property for more than a century, is scrupulous about letting local Cheyennes pray at the rocks as and when they need to.
THE DEER MEDICINE ROCKS TOUR
Did you know that the Rattlesnakes are the traditional guardians of Deer Medicine Rocks, and that if they’re waiting for you, at least one of your group should have stayed at home? Anywhere else, the rationalist answer would seem unarguable, but Deer Medicine Rocks, which erupt two stories into the sky from a hillock on a private ranch right next to the Cheyenne reservation, can make the most hardened skeptic wonder.
Here, on one of the disregarded back roads of the Native American byways, is history.
Down one side of the rocks, a crooked cobalt streak has been scorched by an ancient lightning strike. Around the foot are carvings left by centuries of worshippers, soldiers and travelers.
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And it was here, in 1876, that the Lakota chief Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers tumbling into his camp, and carved this script into the stone - the figures, though a little faint, are very visible.
Not long after that, not far from here, at a place history remembers as Little Bighorn, the men of General George Custer’s 7th Cavalry played their parts, as predicted.
​Experience for yourself that this rock has powerful medicine. It’s like putting the same poles of two magnets together, and the land-owner, whose family have ranched this property for more than a century, is scrupulous about letting local Cheyennes pray at the rocks as and when they need to.
There are no signs on nearby roads directing traffic to this glorious, lonely place, just earth and sky, rock and spirit.
Walk the sometimes grassy sometimes rocky path around the Deer Medicine Rocks and observe with your guide the multitude of drawings and messages left by the Old Ones.
Learn to interpret the symbols and to read tribal history as it was told through the ages.
