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Article: Sacred ground.(Editorials)(Monument remembers Indians at Little Bighorn)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2003
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Byline: The Register-Guard
For more than a century, the grassy, windswept battlefield at Little Bighorn has had a granite obelisk and grave markers honoring Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 260 members of his 7th Cavalry who died in the storied battle that occurred on June 25, 1876. But there was nothing to memorialize the Indians who won the encounter or the Native American scouts who perished alongside the cavalrymen.
That injustice finally has been remedied. A $2.3 million memorial was dedicated this week to the Indian warriors and scouts who fought in the skirmish that has become known as Custer's Last Stand.
Hundreds of American ...