Hundreds of thousands of visitors come each year to stand on the hill where Custer fell and look out over the valley where the great Lakota and Cheyenne encampment once stood.

For most of the monument’s history, the story told there was primarily the Army’s story.

The white marble markers that stand on the hillside mark the positions where soldiers fell.

The original museum focused on the military campaign.

Custer’s name was in the monument’s official title for its first century of existence.

That has been changing.

In 1991, Congress authorized the construction of an Indian Memorial at the battlefield — a monument to the Native warriors and community members who fought and died there.

The Indian Memorial was completed and dedicated in 2003.

It includes a sculptural element called the “Spirit Warriors” — figures of Native warriors on horseback, representing the men and women who defended the camp.

The monument’s official name was changed, in 1991, from “Custer Battlefield National Monument” to “Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument” — a recognition that the battle was not only Custer’s story.