On June 25 and 26, 1876, the Battle of Little Big Horn took place along the Little Big Horn River in Montana Territory. Known to the Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, it is widely remembered as Custer’s Last Stand. The 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer faced the combined forces of several tribes including Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho. The only survivor of regiment on Last Stand Hill was Captain Keogh’s horse Commanche, but 7th Cavalry troops in other portions of the battlefield did survive.
After the mass killing at Wounded Knee, the American Museum of Natural History received children’s toys taken from the site. A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to Native Americans, but descendants are still waiting.
Contractors scurried on the form of Mount Rushmore drilling and jackhammering to construct the famous faces and heads of four presidents in a 1939 family vacation film in the archives of the South Dakota State Historical Society.
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The 75th anniversary of the Crazy Horse Memorial is June 2-4. The weekend features the 37th Annual Spring Volksmarch on Saturday with events Friday and Sunday.