Visiting the Little Big Horn monument was very emotional and very moving. The biggest surprise is that the Native American portion of the display wasn't approved until the George H. W. Bush presidency and not installed until 2003. Until 1991 it was still called the Custer Battlefield National Monument. That oversight is now rectified with a beautiful memorial next to Last Stand Hill, with grave markers now in place for both Native Americans and members of the 7th Calvary at approximate places where they fell. You can see how portions of the battle played out just by looking at the clusters of grave sites. Just a wonderful monument to the beginning of the end of the free tribes. While the hill was Custer's last stand, the battle was really the last stand for the Lakota, the Sioux, the Crow and the northern Cheyenne as the Native Americans never won another battle after that engagement.
