First Posted: 3/19/2012 FILE – In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, Custer Battlefield Museum director Christopher Kortlander describes a painting depicting the Battle of Little Bighorn on display ...

Custer Battlefield Museum director Christopher Kortlander claims the museum he runs in Garryowen legally possessed the 22 war bonnets, medicine bundles and other artifacts that were among items ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The government is entering settlement talks with the director of a Custer-themed Montana museum, trying to resolve who owns a cache of American Indian artifacts seized in ...

"Custer artifacts carry massive significance nationally as well as for our collectors so we are thrilled to offer these historic pieces at our first premier auction of the year." ...

A federal judge has delayed until April a hearing into whether American Indian artifacts seized by federal agents should be returned to a privately-operated museum in southeast Montana.

The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument’s priceless archives and museum collection, which includes Lt. Col. George A. Custer’s uniforms and Sitting Bull’s arrows, will be ...

One highlight of the collection is an eagle-feather headdress belonging to Joseph White Bull, identified in ''Custer's Fall'' as the man who shot and killed George Armstrong Custer.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A cache of American Indian artifacts seized during raids on a Custer-themed museum in southeast Montana includes items allegedly stolen from members of the Crow Tribe.