Battle of the Little Bighorn Reenactment is a reenactment of the

Battle of the Little Bighorn The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Nor ...

. Since the 1990s there have been two events conducted annually close to the anniversary of the battle in late June, although in 2015 only one event has been scheduled to take place.

Battle of the Little Bighorn Reenactment

The Real Bird family has conducted the ''Battle of Little Bighorn Reenactment'' since 1995 on the banks of the Little Bighorn River off East Frontage Road between

Crow Agency Crow Agency ( cro, awaasúuchia) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Big Horn County, Montana, United States and is near the actual location for the Little Bighorn National Monument and re-enactment produced by the Real Bird family known as Ba ...

and Garryowen,

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...

. The site of the reenactment is on the edge of the Little Bighorn river opposite from Medicine Tail Coulee, where fighting may have taken place.

Custer's Last Stand Reenactment

The Hardin Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture has annually conducted the ''Custer's Last Stand Reenactment'' performed 6 miles outside of Hardin,

on Old U.S. Highway 87.

Joe Medicine Crow Joseph Medicine Crow (October 27, 1913 – April 3, 2016) was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Nation. His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best kn ...

wrote the script for the narrative in 1965, which recounts the significant events leading up to the battle. Although the reenactment had been held annually since the early 1990s, the 2015 event was canceled due to costs, and the 2020 reenactment was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, a reenactment was scheduled for 2021.

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Battle of the Little Bighorn Reenactment

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