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* It became a National Cemetery in 1879. * It was transferred to the National Park Service from the War Department in 1940. * In 1991 the site was renamed to remove Custer's name in part at the urging of Senator Ben Nighthorse Cambell from Colorado who was a member of the Northern Cheyenne. * The site was honored on that occasion and in 1976 on its Centenial.

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