An Oglala Sioux warrior of 16 in 1876, fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn under his cousin Crazy Horse, brilliant tribal war leader. In 1950, he was killed by a careless hit-and-run motorist while at the side of a road. “I heard a bugle blow. Women screamed...
John Stanley, Navajo-Actor. Stanley was not a survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn but highly sought after by Western movie directors.
John Sitting Bull, adopted deaf-mute son of the famed Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, was 14 years of age in 1876 and fought bravely, if briefly, in the early phases of the battle. At Wounded Knee in 1890, his rifle fired accidentally before he could surrender it...
Hosteen Tqo Ashi Sahwater – Navajo
Illustration by David Humphreys Miller
Painting titled “Hell Bent” by David Humphreys Miller
