On April 9th The Michigan Democratic Party passed a resolution for The General Custer Equestrian Monument to be moved from its current location. 

RESOLUTION CALLING FOR
REMOVAL OF THE CUSTER MONUMENT IN MONROE
WHEREAS, The George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument is a 14-foot bronze
sculpture located in Monroe, Michigan, on the southwest corner of Elm Avenue and
North Monroe Street along the River Raisin; and
WHEREAS, the city of Monroe is resting upon Potawatomi lands; and
WHEREAS, the Custer monument was unveiled in 1910 by President William Howard
Taft and approved by white settlers seeking to assert their superiority and dominance;
and
WHEREAS, Custer, notoriously known as the “Indian Killer”, is widely perceived as
offensive; and as a painful public reminder of the genocide of Indigenous peoples and
the present realities of systemic racism in our country; and
WHEREAS, Custer led the Massacre at the Washita River of the Cheyenne Chief Black
Kettle and his band of Tsistsistas; and was responsible for numerous other atrocities
and crimes against humanity; and before the ink was dry on the 1868 Fort Laramie
Treaty protecting the Black Hills, Custer deliberately publicized the gold which was
present in the region; and knowingly desecrated Bear Butte by riding up the holy
mountain brandishing his sword after he was told that all weapons were to be left at the
bottom of the sacred place to the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux peoples, among
others who share culture and history there; and
WHEREAS, Custer amassed 726 demerits at West Point Military Academy and was
court-martialed twice in his military career; and
WHEREAS, Custer was court-martialed for leaving part of his regiment at Fort Wallace
without permission; forcing his men to march on private business; commanding his
officers to shoot three deserters without trial; and refusing medical treatment for one of
his men, resulting in the man’s death; and
WHEREAS, Custer was found guilty of five charges, and suspended for a year without
pay, was demoted from the rank of General, and died as a Lieutenant Colonel; and
WHEREAS, for a decade, 1866-1876, Custer violated treaties forged in sacred trust
between the United States government and Tribal Nations; defied orders and led
ruthless attacks on compliant Tribal Nations; involved raping, torturing, murdering
innocent Native women and children; and personally directed the shooting of 640
ponies at the Washita River where survivors said they heard nothing but the screams of
men, women, and children and horses throughout the night; and