![]() ![]() "They look upon Custer as a personification of all that was wrong in American Indian policy, all that was brutal, all that was unjust," he said. Utley, in Helena for the 18th Annual Montana History Conference recently, said the present name offends most Indians. He would like to see Congress pass a bill changing the name from Custer Battlefield National Monument to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. For many years, he resisted the idea.But he changed his mind as he learned more about the Indian view of their treatment by white men during the settlement of the West. Robert Utley, considered an expert on the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the frontier military, didn't always feel that way. George Custer is so hated by Indians that it is time to change the name of the Montana battlefield honoring him, says the former chief historian of the National Park Service.
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