Les LeFevre

The period of 1820 to 1880 on the western plains was the most colorful in American history. Unfortunately, I was born too late to experience it first hand.

Through my years working with Indians from the Pine Ridge Reservation and the Wind River Reservation I have had the privilege to meet the grandsons and granddaughters of participants in the Battle of The Greasy Grass or as the white man refers to it, The Battle of the Little Big Horn . Moses Brings Plenty is the great grandson of a participant and survivor of the battle. Their grandparents were some of the last Indians to freely roam the plains.

As the west was settled by the Euro-Americans, the Native Americans were decimated and driven from their ancestral lands. Their history and culture were being erased forever. Through my research and paintings, I am able to recreate a little part of it for myself as well as others to enjoy.