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MARCH 6, 2001

Ten years after Congress removed Army Lt. Col. George Custer's name from the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, no funding for the construction of an Indian memorial at the Montana site has been provided.

The project to honor the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe warriors who fought and defeated Custer and the Army in June 1876 is expected to cost $2.5 million. Without federal funding, contruction probably won't begin until at least 2005.

Two granite markers were erected in 1999 to depict two Cheyenne warriors, but some say that is not enough. There is also disagreement about the memorial, which was designed by non-Indians.

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