110 STAT. 4180 PUBLIC LAW 104-333—NOV. 12, 1996 (3) LAND ACQUISITION.— From the amounts made available to carry out the National Historic Preservation Act, there are authorized to be appropriated for land acquisition pursuant to subsection (g)(4) not more than $2,000,000 annually to remain available until expended. (4) MANAGEMENT ENTITY. —From the amounts made available to carry out the National Historic Preservation Act, there are authorized to be appropriated to the management entity not more than $500,000 annually to remain available until expended. 16 USC 461 note. SEC. 607. WASHITA BATTLEFIELD. (a) FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. — (1) FINDINGS.—- The Congress finds that— (A) the Battle of the Washita, November 27, 1868, was one of the largest engagements between Plains tribes and the United States Army on the Southern Great Plains. The site is a registered National Historic Landmark; (B) Lt. Colonel George A. Custer, leading the 7th United States Cavalry, attacked the sleeping Cheyenne village of peace chief Black Kettle. Custer's attack resulted in more than 150 Indian casualties, many of them women and children; (C) the Battle of the Washita sjnnbolizes the struggle of the Southern Great Plains tribes to maintain their traditional lifeways and not to submit to reservation confinement; and (D) the Washita battle site possesses a high degree of integrity and the cultural landscape is essentially intact. The Cheyenne village site has not been altered substantially except by periodic flooding of the Washita River. (2) PURPOSES. —The purposes of this section are to— (A) recognize the importance of the Battle of the Washita as a nationally significant element of frontier military history and as a symbol of the struggles of the Southern Great Plains tribes to maintain control of their traditional use areas; and (B) establish the site of the Battle of the Washita as a national historic site and provide opportunities for American Indian groups including the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe to be involved in the formulation of plans and educational programs for the national historic site. (b) ESTABLISHMENT. — (1) IN GENERAL.—In order to provide for the preservation and interpretation of the Battle of the Washita, there is hereby established the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site in the State of Oklahoma (hereafter in this section referred to as the "national historic site"). (2) BOUNDARY. — (A) IN GENERAL. — The national historic site shall consist of— (i) approximately 326 acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled "Washita Battlefield National Historic Site", numbered 22,000A and dated 12/95; and (ii) the private lands subject to conservation easements referred to in subsection (d)(2).
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