Crow scout's medicine bag still disputed

JUNE 26, 2001

A medicine bag purported to have belonged to Curley, a Crow scout for Lt. Col. George A. Custer, is still in dispute 125 years after the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Descendants of Curley want the bag repatriated. A man who once possessed it now claims he was wrongfully deprived of the pouch, worth an estimated $45,000, by the owners of a trading post who claim it was a payment for services rendered.

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Medicine pouch in court dispute (The Billings Gazette 6/26)

Relevant Links:
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument - http://www.nps.gov/libi

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