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1868 - Fort Laramie
Treaty signed. This accord created the Great Sioux Reservation in
present-day western South Dakota,
eastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana.
1874 - An influx of miners moves into the Black Hills after Custer
leads a
scientific expedition into the Black Hills and discovers gold.
1876 - All Indians not on reservations after January 31, 1876 are
considered hostile.
1876 - March to May: Military operations are carried out to move
Indians onto reservations.
1876, June 25-26 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and 262 soldiers,
scouts, and civilians attached to the 7th US Cavalry are defeated by
Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho warriors . Custer and all his men die.
1876 - General Crook destroys a large Cheyenne village under Dull
Knife.
1877, January - Miles fights Crazy Horse at Wolf Mountains.
1877, May - Crazy Horse reports to Fort Robinson, Neb., where he is
killed after being arrested.
1879 - The Little Bighorn Battlefield is designated a national
cemetery
administered by the War Department.
1881 - A monument for the Cavalry is built on Last Stand Hill. The
U.S. Army
takes custody of the site and controls access and historical
interpretation
for decades.
1925 - Mrs. Thomas Beaverheart, Cheyenne, writes the battlefield
custodian
and the U.S. Army requesting markers be placed on graves where known
warriors fell. She doesn't receive a response.
1926 - The Army and Indians meet at the battlefield to celebrate
the 50th
anniversary of the battle. The Northern Cheyenne are unsuccessful in their
effort to have an additional memorial erected.
1940 - Jurisdiction of the battlefield is transferred to the
National Park
Service.
1946 - The battlefield is designated a National Monument.
1988, June 25 - The American Indian Movement cements a metal plaque
into the
grassy base of the memorial that marks the mass grave of the 7th U.S.
Cavalry.
1991, December 10 - President George Bush signs papers changing the
name from Custer Battlefield National Monument to Little Bighorn National Monuments. He also orders construction of a memorial for the Indians under
Public Law 102-201. The creation of the Indian Memorial itself is
commissioned by an act of Congress in 1991.
1996 - After a national designed competition is announced, 554
entries are received and juried by aboriginal artists, art historians,
historians, architects, scholars and spiritual advisors.
1997 - John and Alison Collins, landscape architects from
Pennsylvania, are announced as winners of the design concept for the
aboriginal memorial.
1997 - National Park Service Foundation announces campaign to raise
funds for the Indian Memorial and establishes the theme, "Peace
Through Unity."
2002 - The National Park Service mails out requests for
proposal/contract tenders to create and install the aboriginal memorial
and the Spirit Warriors sculpture. An NPS in-house jury reviews and awards
contracts to a design team and a general contractor.
2002, June - Colleen Cutschall, an Oglala-Sicangu Lakota
artist/professor, is awarded the contract for the Spirit Warriors
sculpture project.
2003, April - The earthwork memorial is completed and Spirit
Warriors sculpture installed.
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