May 26, 2008 Fortsat fra sidste side ~ Continued from last page Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument & Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Custer County, Montana Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and Custer National Cemetery is located near Crow Agency in Custer County, Montana   I anledning af Memorial Dag var det passende at besøge Custer Militærkirkegård i Little Bighorn og se slagmarken, hvor slaget ved Little Bighorn fandt sted i 1786. In honor of Memorial Day it seemed fitting to visit the Custer National Cemetery at Little Bighorn and see the place where the battle of Little Bighorn took place in 1786.       Slaget ved Little Bighorn var en del af den krig, der fulgte i 1876, efter den amerikanske regering som svar på blodige stridigheder mellem indianerne og pionererne, krævede at alle indianere skulle flytte til indianer-reservater. Den hvide mand vandt krigen, men Oberstløjtnant George Armstrong Custer tabte slaget ved Little Bighorn til Sitting Bull, da indianerne dræbte ham og så godt som alle hans 220 soldater. The Battle of Little Bighorn was part of the war that in 1876 followed, after the American government in response to bloody conflicts between the Indians and the pioneers, demanded that all Indians were to move to reservations. The white man won the war, but Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer lost the battle at Little Bighorn to Sitting Bull, when the Indians killed him and practically all his 220 soldiers.     På slagmarken ved Little Bighorn står mindesten for hver af de faldne, og hver sten markerer det sted, de faldt. On the Little Bighorn Battlefield are markers for each of the fallen, and each stone marks the place they fell.   Amerikansk soldat, 7nde Kalvari, faldt her 25. juni, 1876 ~ U. S. Soldier, 7th Cavalry, fell here, June 25, 1876.

Hahpehe'onahe (Knyttede Hånd), en Cheyenne kriger, faldt her 25. juni, 1876, i forsvaret på Cheyenne-indianernes levevis ~ Hahpehe-onahe (Closed Hand), a Cheyenne warrior, fell here on June 25, 1876 while defending the Cheyenne way of life.     Se hvem jeg sned mig op bagpå... ~ Look who I snuck up on...

På toppen af den bakke, som udgør slagmarken ved Little Bighorn, kæmpede Oberstløjtnant Custer sin sidste kamp. Efter adskillige taktiske forregnelser og kommunikations-svigt fandt han, at han var blevet isoleret her med omkring 220 mænd, omgivet af op til 1500 indianere. Her, indenfor hvor gitteret står nu, faldt Custer. Han og hans mænd blev begravet, hvor de faldt, og deres mindesten står tilbage. At the top of the hill that is the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Lt. Col. Custer took his last stand. After several tactical miscalculations and failures of communication he found himself isolated here with about 220 men, surrounded by as many as 1500 hostile Indians. Here, in this now fenced-in area, Custer took his last stand. He and his men were buried where they fell, and their memorial stones remain.   Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876)           Selvom soldaterne oprindelig blev begravet i overfladiske grave, hvor de faldt, blev de fleste senere flyttet til andre kirkegårde af familiemedlemmer. De jordiske rester af circa fyrre mænd, som ikke blev flyttet, blev senere begravet i en fælles grav for foden at dette monument ved slagmarken. Although the soldiers were originally buried in shallow graves where they fell, most of them were later reinterred elsewhere by their next of kin. The remains of forty or so men that were not otherwise claimed were later reinterred in a single grave at the base of this monument next to the battlefield.

Mindesmærke over indianerne ~ Memorial over the Indians     Hestene blev, som soldaterne, i første omgang begravet på slagmarken. De blev fem år senere flyttet til denne grav, som ligger et lille stykke derfra. The horses, like the soldiers, were originally buried on the battlefield. Five years later they were moved to this grave a short distance away.

Ved siden af slagmarken ligger Custer militær-kirkegård. Her ligger soldater fra mange krige begravet sammen med deres familier. Her hviler også indianere fra Crow-stammen, som sluttede sig til amerikanerne som spejdere i krigen mod Lakota Sioux-, Cheyenne-, Arikara- og Arapaho-stammerne: Next to the battle field lies Custer National Cemetery. Here lie buried soldiers from many wars, along with their family members. Here are also laid to rest Indians from the Crow tribe, which joined the white Americans as scouts in their war against the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, Arikara, and Arapaho tribes:   "Hvide Mand Styrer Ham alias Mahr-Itah-Thee Dah-Ka-Roosh" En af Crow-stammens sange ærer ham således: "Hvide Mand Styrer Ham, du har engang spejdet mod fjenden, Sioux stammen. Nu spejder du igen." "White Man Runs Him alias Mahr-Itah-Thee Dah-Ka-Roosh" One of the songs of the Crow tribe honors him this way: "White Man Runs Him, you have scouted against the enemy, the Sioux once. Now you scout again."     Nogle af de ældste gravsten... Some of the older grave stones...

"På berømmelsens evige campingplads står deres tavse telte spredt, og æren går vagt i højtidelige runder over de dødes bivouak." "On fame's eternal camping-ground their silent tents are spread, and glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead."

Camping/Boondocking Information We're boondocked at the I-94 rest area in Wibaux, Montana. Facilities: Picnic areas Very nice restrooms Information & welcome center   More Montana Travel Information Here A BIT EARLIER TOMORROW