Flies Across a Northern Cheyenne warrior in 1876, fought under Chief Lame White Man in the Battle of Little Big Horn. As a young apprentice warrior, he took a dead soldier’s scalp. “But my name is known to our people as well as the Lakota (Sioux). It came...
Frank Pine, also known as Blind Man, was 86 when Miller painted his portrait in 1941. A Northern Cheyenne, he fought at age 21 under Chief Lame White Man, who was killed during the battle of Little Big Horn. “My nickname, Blind Man, came after I had a vision of...
Fred Belt, a Hunkpapa Sioux follower of Sitting Bull in 1876, fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn under Chief Black Moon. A Ghost Dancer in 1890, Belt narrowly missed becoming a casualty at the Massacre of Wounded Knee when his band was briefly lost in the South...
Chief Joseph Black Horn, a minor band chief of the oglala Sioux, fought under Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn at age 15. In the action against Custer’s command he captured two cavalry horses. In 1890, when he attempted to visit relative at Wounded...
Chief Joseph White Bull, a scalp-shirt wearer or principal chief of the Minneconjou Sioux, amassed an enviable record of courage in the Battle of Little Big Horn in which he counted 7 coups, killed two soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, one of whom he later believed to...
Turkey Legs, a minor Northern Cheyenne Chief in 1876, led his warriors at the Battle of Little Big Horn. He was famous among his people for his later exploit known to whites as the Plum Creek incident, in which Turkey Legs and his young band derailed a Union Pacific...
