Barbara Ann Sutteer (Booher) is a Native American retired National Park Service (NPS) employee.

[a] Sutteer worked for the Federal Aviation Administration and the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Alaska for 17 years before being appointed the superintendent of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, the first female and first Native American to serve in that position.

[2] Sutteer attended the University of Utah, but had to drop out due to a loss of tribal benefits which had included federal aid for education.

[1] People announced the appointment with the headline "General Custer Loses at Little Bighorn Again as an Indian Activist Becomes Keeper of His Legend".

[6] Opponents of Sutteer's appointment criticized her for hiring more Indians and for weeds growing on Last Stand Hill, which the park has always maintained in its natural state.

[7] Sutteer also worked to change the historical markers throughout the park which called the cavalrymen "fallen heroes" and the Cheyenne and Sioux "hostile Indians".

[8] Sutteer worked with then-U.S. Representative Ben Nighthorse Campbell on legislation to authorize a memorial to Native Americans at Little Bighorn and to change the site's name.

[4] In 1991, Sutteer participated in the ceremony burying a partial skeleton discovered in 1989, accompanied by two color guards: one Cheyenne and the other from Fort Carson's 7th Cavalry.

[5] In June, 1992, Sutteer closed the tour road at the south entrance to avoid conflict with a nearby sun dance on private land attended by Russell Means and members of the American Indian Movement.

[10]: 159 Sutteer served as superintendent at Little Bighorn for over three years, and established close relations with the Crows, Cheyenne, Lakotas, and Arapahos.

[4] During the annual return of tribal horseback riders to Little Bighorn in 2009, Sutteer was honored by the Cheyenne for her work with the tribes while superintendent.