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Custer Battle Centennial Plans Highlight Memorial Effort
A National Custer Memorial Association leads plans for a semi centennial celebration of the Battle of the Little Bighorn with a June march by the Seventh Cavalry, Indian participants, and a hatchet burial ceremony near the battlefield. The event recalls a contested history with debates over leadership, survivors, and arms while honoring brave actions of Reno’s men and other veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott ‘Watson
Little Big Horn River
Montana
George Armstrong Custer
Custer
National Custer Memorial Association
Godfrey
Seventh Cavalry
Fort Bliss
Texas
Bronx
Cheyenne ‘Indians
Little Big Horn
United States
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Major Reno
Benteen
Leo
Rosebud River
America
Quater
Massacra
A. H. Térry
Curley
Comanche
Myles Keogh
Packer
Indiana
Little Hig Horn
Sitting Bull
Rain-in-the-Face
Gall
Crazy Horse
Two
Ufe
Charles. A. Eastman
Eastman
Custers
A. Brinmstool
O. G. ‘Libby
Department of History
University of North Dakota
Rees
Libby
The
North Dakota Historical Society
Charles O. de Rudio
Sergi
Thomas O'Neill
Billy Jackson
Fred Girard
Reno
Nell Bancroft
Abram J. Brant
Thomas J. Callan
Frederick Deetline
Theodore W. Goldin
David W. Harris
Wiliam M. Harris
Rufus D. Hutchinson
James Pyn
Stanislaus Roy
George Escott
Galt
Two Moons