TELLING STORIES: Making History, Place, and Identity on the Little Bighorn

Buchholtz, Debra

doi:10.3998/jar.0521004.0067.305

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“…Individual rangers perform as if they are starring in a one-man scripted show retelling what happened on that fateful day largely from the point of view of the U.S. Cavalry but with some mention of what Native leaders allegedly said and did. Two miles away, the privately run U.S. Cavalry School also performs a scripted reenactment featuring staff, a few dozen white 7th Calvary re-enactors, and Native Crow riders—mostly teenagers and young men—playing the parts of their historic enemies while dressed up like it’s 1876 in wigs and war paint riding their horses bareback as they count coup on the men in “Custer’s Last Ride” who have been practicing all week to play the role of soldiers from the doomed regiment (Buchholtz, 2011).…”

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Remembering the Battle of Pezi Sla (Greasy Grass—aka Little Bighorn) with the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Victory Riders: An Autoethnographic Photo Essay

Creef

Petersen²

2021

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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If one travels to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Park in late June, one can witness at least three events that simultaneously take place each year commemorating what has been called “one of the great mythic and mysterious military battles of American history” (Frosch, 2010). The National Park Service rangers give “battle talks” on the hour to visiting tourists. Two miles away, the privately run U.S. Cavalry School also performs a scripted reenactment called “Custer’s Last Ride”—with riders who have been practicing all week to play the role of soldiers from the doomed regiment of Custer’s 7th Cavalry. On this same day, a traveling band of men, women, and youth from the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Nations who have journeyed by horseback and convoy from the Dakotas and Wyoming will reach Last Stand Hill to remember this “Victory Day” from 1876—one that historians have called the “last stand of the Indians” during the period of conflict known as the “Great Sioux War.” This photo essay offers an autoethnographic account of what some have dubbed the annual “Victory Ride” to Montana based upon my participation as a non-Native supporter of this Ride in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

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