The genocidal intent of the soldiers and their arrogance is hard to imagine.
The Indians were brutal savages. If the country was going to be settled and farmed there could not be murderous highly mobile nomads ransacking and killing at will. Actually Custer was in hot water in Washington for reporting misuse of money appropriated for Indians. Those soldiers had a job to do and I suspect many were reluctant to kill which may have affected the outcome. Custer did make several blunders which ended up dooming his battalion but branding the soldiers as genocidal and arrogant is wrong unless unknown to me you are a mind reader that can exercise that talent back almost 150 years.
