Custer Never Would Have Believed It
Native American Studies in Academia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4038504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terry P Wilson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 207 |
| Publication date | 1979-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1183519 |
| OpenAlex | W2022834906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
While scanning bibliographies, browsing libraries and bookstores or thumbing through the book review sections of periodicals, George Armstrong Custer's name almost inevitably appears. There has been a continuing, compelling curiosity about every facet of that nineteenth century soldier's career. Taking into full account his flamboyance of character, much of the persistence of the mystique can be explained in terms of its inextricable link with the cavalryman's chief antagonist, the American Indian. The latter has made Custer, or more specifically his defeat at Little Big Horn, a rallying cry for Indian civil rights and cultural integrity during the past decade. While bumper stickers displaying Custer Died for Your Sins and Custer Had It Coming carry a humorous overtone, upon serious reflection it is a particularly fitting irony that the man whose career was largely built on a much harsher, indeed lethal, use of the Indian should have his name exhumed in the interest of the Native Americans he hated so
Genealogy · Native american · Political science · Archaeology and Natural History · History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2001 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |