Reno and Benteen had survived with the remainder of the regiment on the bluffs above the river, but only barely and only because the Lakota and Cheyenne chose to disengage rather than press the assault to its conclusion.

Lakota and Cheyenne casualties are harder to document.

The Indian Memorial at the battlefield lists the names of approximately sixty-six Native people known to have died — but scholars believe the actual number may have been significantly higher, with some estimates ranging above one hundred.

The documentation is poor because the Lakota and Cheyenne took their dead with them when they moved, as was their practice, and because no one was systematically recording their losses.

The scale of the Native victory, and the scale of the Native loss, are both larger than the American historical record has typically acknowledged.