Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Administrative Assistant Ashlee Culliver has been with the sheriff's office for less than a year so never worked across the room from the likeness of George Armstrong Custer. A portrait of Arapaho Chief Moses Starr now hangs in its place. (Photo by Kimberly Burk, Gaylord)
ARAPAHO, Okla. - It's likely that nobody put up a fight when Custer County was named in 1896, just a couple months short of the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Cheyenne and Arapaho Gov. Reggie Wassana said his ancestors "were just worried about living."
"I doubt that they would have made waves," Wassana said. "They were probably afraid of repercussions."
Wassana said he never heard his grandparents mention the fact that a county and a city named for George Armstrong Custer lie in the heart of territory that until 1892 was their tribal reservation and continues today under tribal jurisdiction.
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