Near them, red granite markers have been placed at locations where Lakota and Cheyenne warriors are believed to have fallen.

The two sets of markers now stand together in the same landscape — the Army’s dead and the defenders’ dead, equally present, equally acknowledged.

The battlefield archaeology continues to produce new findings.

Metal detector surveys have mapped the distribution of cartridge cases and bullets in ways that allow researchers to reconstruct troop movements and sequences of fighting with greater precision than any written account could provide.

That work has, among other things, confirmed elements of the Lakota account of the battle — including the rapidity of Custer’s final defeat — that earlier historians sometimes dismissed.