Custer Battle Echoes at Centennial Memorial Gathering
At Custer Battlefield Montana UPI marks the 100th anniversary of the Little Bighorn fight. Sioux Cheyenne leaders and relatives attend a sunrise ceremony as AIM figures denounce conquest for mineral wealth. Civil rights and native rights voices frame the event, linking past invasion to modern energy exploitation.
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Custer Battlefield
Mont
UPI
George Armstrong Custer
Montana
Custer
Hollywood
7Th Cavalry
Custer Battlefield National Monument
U.S. Army
Curley
West Point
Washita
Black Kettle
Black Hills
South Dakota
Little Bighorn
Wyoming
the Rosebud
Little Bighorn River
Alfred Terry
Terry
John Gibbon
Park Service
AIM
Russell Means
Hal Stearns
Montana Bicentennial Administration
Means
Western Hemisphere
Queen Elizabeth II to visit United States in Bicentennial year
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh will arrive by sea on July 6 for a six day visit to the United States with stops in Philadelphia Washington New York Boston and Charlottesville Virginia The voyage aboard Britannia seats 21 officers and 256 crew and the royal pair will broadcast a state dinner on July 7 The article notes the monarchy role in Britain and the royal prerogative including expenditures and legal immunity.
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Washington
White House
Walter Bagehot
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Virginia
Elizabeth I
University City of
Charlottesville
Elizabeth II
Wyoming Mountain Men head to Philadelphia Bicentennial Parade
Cactus Jack Ratliff and nine rugged Wyoming men, famed for bare handed mountain lion kills, travel by bus to Philadelphia to represent Wyoming in the July 4 Bicentennial Parade. They carry Plainsman rifles and Walker Colt pistols, wear fringed buckskin, and seek to show Easterners what the West was like.
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Riverton
Wyo
Cactus Jack Ratliff
Cactus Jack
Leighton
Dean Chinberg
Philadelphia
Wyoming
Paul Petzoldt
National Outdoor Leadership School
Actusack
Jack
Illinois
Indiana
Wyoming Bicentennial Commission
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Gen. Custer
Reno
Maj
Marcus Reno
High Bluffs
Frederick Benteen
Gall
Crazy Horse
Frank Fools Crow
Vernon Bellecourt
White Earth
Minn
American Indian Movement
Matthew King
Fools Crow
Park Visitor's Center
Black Elk
FBI
John Wayne
Utley
Upifoto
U.S
Royal Watch
United Kingdom
Britain
Sir Ivor Jennings
Bagehot
Jennings
MR. Sullivan
Black
Sarret Office Supply
Valle Grande
Poe
Tropicana
Sandhill
Valle Grande Estates
McGah and Bailey
Valle Grandes
Valle Grande North
Alta
Valley View
Valley West
NLU
Batra
Charleston
Sverre J. Oftedal, M.D
Spanish Oaks Family Doctors, Ltd
West
Sahara Avenue
Las Vegas, Nevada
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