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Article: Statement by U.S. Senator Brock Adams on the Leonard Peltier case to
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Terri C. Hansen
News From Indian Country
04-30-1994
Statement by U.S. Senator Brock Adams on the Leonard Peltier case to. President Bush
June 25, 1992
Mr. President: One hundred and sixteen years ago today, June 25, 1876, nearly half the members of the United States Army's Seventh Cavalry, under the direction of George Armstrong Custer perished in a famous battle along the Little Big Horn River. The aftermath of that battle had consequences for our nation, for other Indian tribes and bands, and for many of the descendants and survivors for the rest of their lives.
The following year, the remaining members of the Seventh Cavalry, under the leadership of Colonel Samuel Sturgis, whose own son, ...