Abstract

Second Battle of Big Horn

Wood, Wilbur | October 25, 1986 issue

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American Indians may soon gain access to local governments that have been dominated up to now by white people. Hardin, Montana, the county seat, reminds me of a circle of covered wagons in Indian country. It perches near the confluence of the Big Horn and Little Big Horn rivers, fifteen miles from the hillside where George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry was rubbed out by Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Sioux warriors in 1876. Already other Montana counties are seeking to avoid similar lawsuits by changing to district voting systems.

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INDIANS of North America; LOCAL government; CUSTER, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; ACTIONS & defenses; HARDIN (Mo.); MONTANA; UNITED States
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