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Little Big Horn Battlefield get big grant for new visitors center
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Native Sun News Today Correspondent
For years, the National Park Service’s Little Bighorn Battlefield has utilized the same small visitor’s center; the space so cramped that many artifacts and historical items related to the Battle have been stored in Arizona, exhibit space severely limited in the current facility.
Anniversary observations attended and conducted by the Tribes are currently held outdoors, as the current Visitor’s Center, constructed in 1952 is simply too small. In 2019, 241,000 visitors flocked to the popular historical site, the third most visited in Montana.
All that is set to change by 2024 when the National Park Service (NPS) plans to finish construction of a new Visitor’s Center and a related curation center. The 150th anniversary of the Battle is June 26, 2026, marking the date when a large contingent of warriors, principally Northern Cheyenne, Sioux and Arapaho decisively defeated the 7th Calvary during White western expansion and the accompanying Indian Wars, as the tribes sought to preserve their homelands and traditional way of life.

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