Billings Gazette: Sioux, Cheyenne celebrate new historiclandmark
AMERICA’S GREAT OUTDOORS: Secretary Salazar DesignatesThirteen New National Historic Landmarks
“Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the designation of 13 new National Historic Landmarks in nine different states, including a site associated with the famed Apache scouts, the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world, and an early 18th-century parish church.”
“Deer Medicine Rocks is significant for its associations
with the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. In
early June 1876, Hunkpapa medicine man Sitting Bull held a Sun Dance in the
Rosebud Valley during which a prophecy of tribal victory at the Battle of the
Little Bighorn was revealed to him. This vision is inscribed on Deer Medicine
Rocks, which includes an etched drawing of “many soldiers falling into camp,”
representing army defeat. Approximately two weeks later, the tribes were
victorious over Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s Seventh Cavalry Command
at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25-26, 1876.”
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