Stasis on the Greasy Grass

Abstract

In a Greek universe of movement, ‘stasis’ named moments of tensional standing-still generated by counterbalancing forces: material, sociopolitical, and argumentative. These intertwined senses inform understanding of arguments over U.S. colonial history that materialize at famous memory places. Since 2003, an Indian Memorial at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument--long a shrine to George Armstrong Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry--has contested settler memories not through subaltern critique or reconciliation but through sustained stasiastic opposition.