The performance of the Indian scouts at the Little Bighorn remains a contentious subject. This chapter explores the existing literature on the Indian scouts involved in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Since only a small body of work focuses on the scouts themselves, the chapter also considers discussions of the scouts presented in biographies of Custer, studies of the Little Bighorn, and examinations of the nineteenth‐century Indian Wars. Scholars observe that Indian auxiliaries and scouts were integral to the European conquest of the New World. Surveys of the Sioux Wars typically devote little attention to Crow and Arikara scouts. Studies of the Battle of the Little Bighorn usually devote significant attention to Indian scouts, although their assessments of the scouts’ motives, performances, and accounts vary. Placing this battle within the context of Crow and Arikara history helps one to better comprehend the “Indian–Indian” dimension of the Indian Wars.