[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

I visited the Little Big Horn battlefield three years ago. My favorite battlefield, partly because the crowds are modest, mostly because you can see so much without driving or walking too far. (There are only trees in the river and creek valleys.) It's right off I-90, not more than a mile or two off the interstate, roughly half way between Sheridan, WY and Billings.

[DoughtyOne]

Wasn't there a scandle not too long ago about renaming the park there, or something like that? As I recall the name Custer offended the Indian groups or something like that. If true it just seems strange that the connection of Custer to the site seemed to offend, but the celebration of the battle there and the resulting deaths isn't supposed to offend anyone.

[JohnGalt]

I visited Little Big Horn in the summer of 1997. It really is impressive and, at least, back then, the battle was presented as a clash of cultures that could not live in harmony.

[vetvetdoug]

I wonder if there will be as much bruhaha for a reenactment of the US Cavalry's victory at Wounded Knee? I need to get a few blanks for my Krag anyway.

[WorkingClassFilth]

The article failed to mention that descendants of the 7th Cavalry soldiers will also reinact their ancestor's roles.

This time, they decided to bring the Gattling guns...

[Tacis]

At reinactments, do the savage Indians still torture and murder all the enemy survivors of the fight? Name another battle in history where the winners butchered the losers, every last one. Rather than be proud of the Custer battle, Indians should be forever labeled as the dumb savages that they are.

[vetvetdoug]

Sherman and Sheridan taught the South to cry
Then the two went out West and showed the Indian how to die

Part of a song written by Mississippi songwriter about 1995..

[HairOfTheDog]

The Crow are sending 200 riders, including one riderless horse to honor Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a Hopi soldier who was mortally wounded in a March 23 ambush in Iraq.

For a 200 mile ride, I would love to be that horse!... (because it would be such an honorable role as well as easy)

The image of the tribute riderless horse *always* tears me up.

There is another re-enactment trail ride that hundreds of riders (non-indian too) go on every year, the Trail of Tears ride.... You guys ever gone on any sections of that? - My horse was on it once, but I have not.

[Ditter]

We have been there too. It is a very special place. You can almost feel things that happened there.