Is it true those captured alive after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, had their arms and legs cut off?

Question

Nothingu you sound like you know what you're talking about, I got this from Ken Burns' The West dvd, you might want to watch that

Answer 1

Where do you people come UP with this CRAP?

There were NO SURVIVORS to the Battle of the Little Bighorn... Now, after the battle, many of the bodies were mutilated, but they were NOT alive when it happened... unless they were just pretending to be dead..

It IS true the bodies were mutilated... just like the WHITE AMERIKAN SOLDIERS did to the INDIANS...

Answer 2

No, that is not true; there were no captives (no quarters given!), no limbs cut off, but see:
After the battle, the Indians came through and stripped the bodies and mutilated all the uniformed soldiers, believing that the soul of a mutilated body would be forced to walk the earth for all eternity and could not ascend to heaven. Inexplicably, they stripped Custer's body and cleaned it, but did not scalp or mutilate it. He had been wearing buckskins instead of a blue uniform, and some believe that the Indians thought he was not a soldier and so, thinking he was an innocent, left him alone. Because his hair was cut short for battle, others think that he did not have enough hair to allow for a very good scalping. Immediately after the battle, the myth emerged that they left him alone out of respect for his fighting ability, but few participating Indians knew who he was to have been so respectful. To this day, no one knows the real reason.
from:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/custer.htm
I have read several books about the Little Bighorn, I have visited the national battlefield, but this is the first time I ever heard of such a thing. By the way, those books included a book written telling the Indian version, "Black Elk Speaks".