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The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn

In June of 1876, the U.S. governments plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the battle of Little Bighorn represented a symbolic struggle between the civil and the savage. Known as the Battle of the Greasy Grass to the Lakota, the Battle of the Little Bighorn to the people who suppressed them, and as Custers Last Stand in the annals of popular culture, the event continues to captivate students of American history.

In The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn, Debra Buchholtz narrates the history of the battle and critically examines the legacy it has left. In five concise chapters, bolstered by government documents, newspaper articles, and eyewitness accounts, Buchholtz shows how the battle continues to shape the way we understand indigenous peoples, the Wild West, and the history of America.

For additional documents, images, and resources please visit The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn companion website at:

www.routledge.com/cw/criticalmoments

Debra Buchholtz is a lecturer in the Geography and Anthropology department at California State Polytechnic University

Critical Moments in American History

Edited by William Thomas Allison

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Political Trauma and American Memory

Alice L. George

The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn

Custers Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture

Debra Buchholtz

The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn

Custers Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture

Debra Buchholtz

First published 2012

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the UK

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Buchholtz, Debra.

The battle of the Greasy Grass / Little Bighorn : Custers last stand in memory, history, and popular culture / by Debra Buchholtz.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876. 2. Cheyenne IndiansWars, 1876. 3. Dakota IndiansWars, 1876. 4. Indians in popular culture. 5. Indians of North AmericaPublic opinion. 6. Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 18391876Public opinion. 7. Public opinionUnited States. I. Title.

E83.876.B93 2012

973.82dc23

ISBN: 978-0-41589558-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-41589559-0 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-20311678-4 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo and Helvetica Neue by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon

Contents

Welcome to the Routledge Critical Moments in American History series. The purpose of this new series is to give students a window into the historians craft through concise, readable books by leading scholars, who bring together the best scholarship and engaging primary sources to explore a critical moment in the American past. In discovering the principal points of the story in these books, gaining a sense of historiography, following a fresh trail of primary documents, and exploring suggested readings, students can then set out on their own journey, to debate the ideas presented, interpret primary sources, and reach their own conclusions just like the historian.

A critical moment in history can be a range of things a pivotal year, the pinnacle of a movement or trend, or an important event such as the passage of a piece of legislation, an election, a court decision, a battle. It can be social, cultural, political, or economic. It can be heroic or tragic. Whatever they are, such moments are by definition game changers, momentous changes in the pattern of the American fabric, paradigm shifts in the American experience. Many of the critical moments explored in this series are familiar; some less so.

There is no ultimate list of critical moments in American history any group of students, historians, or other scholars may come up with a different catalog of topics. These differences of view, however, are what makes history itself and the study of history so important and so fascinating. Therein can be found the utility of historical inquiry to explore, to challenge, to understand, and to realize the legacy of the past through its influence of the present. It is the hope of this series to help students realize this intrinsic value of our past and of studying our past.

William Thomas Allison

Georgia Southern University

This volume incorporates results from research conducted in archives around the United States and on or near the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Funding was generously provided by the University of Minnesota Graduate School and Department of Anthropology, the American Philosophical Societys Phillips Fund for Native American Research, the Autry Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, and The British Academy.

A special word of thanks is due to the many residents of and visitors to the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn area who graciously shared their thoughts with me and answered my seemingly endless questions. National Park Service staff at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and the Harpers Ferry Center have gone out of their way to be of assistance, often at relatively short notice. Many thanks to them and to the knowledgeable and always helpful Magdalene Medicine Horse Moccasin, former archivist at the Little Big Horn College Archives.

1803	Louisiana Purchase
18041806	Lewis and Clark Expedition
1851	First Fort Laramie Treaty
18611865	Civil War
1862	Santee Sioux (Minnesota) Uprising
November 29, 1864	Sand Creek Massacre
1866	Custer and the 7th Cavalry posted to Fort Riley, Kansas
18661868	Red Clouds War
1868	Second Fort Laramie Treaty
November 27, 1868	Battle of the Washita
1873	Panic of 1873 and recession
1873	Custer and the 7th Cavalry posted to Ft. Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory

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