Teribus, as I'm sure you're aware a "lodge" was not a single family unit, but an extended family who lived together for mutual support and protection. There could have been from one to several fighting folks living in each lodge. In any case Custer deliberately ran into a buzz saw. (I earlier quoted a letter from 1SGT Ryan on Custer's wounds -- Custer had also had a digit removed from one of his fingers, a gash in one thigh, his eardrums pierced by a sewing awl, and an arrow shot into his genitals.)

Whose was the right and wrong?
Sing it, oh funeral song,
With a voice that is full of tears.
And say that our broken faith
Wrought all this ruin and scathe
In the year of a Hundred Years.
                     --H. W. Longfellow