Sienkiewicz, generał Custer i Indianie

The article presents Henryk Sienkiewicz as the author of reports written during his stay in the USA between 1876–1878 and published in “Gazeta Polska” (“Polish Gazette”) as “Listy z podróży do Ameryki (Letters from America)”. It focuses mostly on the account from his meeting with the Sioux, two months before general Custer’s famous Battle of the Little Bighorn River with the Indians, on the impressions from this meeting and on Sienkiewicz’s further reflections connected with it, as well as sketches the circumstances of the mentioned battle. The article concludes with the remarks on Sienkiewicz’s return to Indian issues in his short stories “Orso” and “Sachem”.