My father's mother was a Custer and I have not researched her claim to have been related to George Armstrong.
Regarding stuffing Comanche, Roy Rogers stuffed Trigger. Rogers' costar for his first eight films was Penny Edwards who was our next-door neighbor here until her death in 1998.
We had occasion to be at the home of a Lakota sculptor of some renown in 1989 to observe him rolling on the ground yelling at his wife for having taken his wine bottle.
The radio station has covered the problem of pueblos not sharing DWI records with the state DMV with resultant carnage. The second occurance (DUI deja vu all over again) of a double-legal Native American piloting a pickup wrongway on an Interstate to kill four whites in a head-on.
A good friend now gone described himself as a coyote, Spanish father, Indian mother, said it was a cross to bear. His own brother returned from jail to throw him out in the snow to freeze to death.
Now the Army restores peace among native populations, winning the hearts and minds of al Qaeda, pursuing same to Thailand.