Battle of the Little Big Horn
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Every year over 200,000 people visit the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana. Long known as the Custer Battlefield National Monument, the name of the site was changed in 1991 when Congress made it the Little Bighorn National Monument and the monument to the Indians was planned. This shift in emphasis at the popular tourist attraction is the result of changes in the perception of the battle's meanings for both Native Americans and white Americans. The change represents an outward sign of the re-thinking of history that has slowly recognized how both popular myths and supposedly objective history serve hidden agendas. Feminist and ethnic groups' critiques of the way all kinds of history has been written have gradually produced wider recognition of the fact that these underlying interests need to be brought out in the open and reviewed before history can again be thought of as possessing some degree of truth. Those whose points of view are excluded in every other aspect of our culture have also been ignored in the writing of history and when their voices are heard a very different picture of history emerges along with an informative critique of history as it used to be written. More has been written about the Battle of the Little Big Horn and Custer's "Last Stand" than about any battle in the history of the United States. Contemporary news accounts along with later books, magazine and journal articles fill hundreds of volumes. The overwhelming attent
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it was the end of the resistance of the Plains Indians.
The word spread by newspapers was highly inaccurate and served a number of purposes. The primary purpose, of course, was to increase circulation by appealing to the audience's desire to gather more and more grisly details. The sensationalism was to be expected. But equally important was the desire to make political progress against President Grant and the Republican party. The President's policies toward the Plains Indians had been viewed by many as being far too conciliatory and the Custer battle could be added to the other scandals of the Grant administration as proof of its ineptitude. The Army had been underfunded in its war on the Indians and was willing to use the Custer case as a means of increasing its support. But on the broadest scale the will to move into the West was always in need of reinforcement on the subject of the treatment of the Indians. Few of those who were actually engaged in the struggle in the West held any view except that the Indians should be placed permanently out of the way and if they refused to go, they should be killed. In the East there was always some popular resistance to the manner in which the Indians were treated -- even among
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Approximate Word count = 5419
Approximate Pages = 22 (250 words per page)
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