Chief Grass Rope, leader of the low Brule Sioux in later year, fought at age 15 under minor Brule chief, Crow Dog, at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He died in 1943. “You ask if I was at the Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn) Fight with Long Hair. Yes, I was there. I...
Chief Henry Oscar One bull, a Hunkpapa Sioux, was a nephew, adopted son and bodyguard of the famed Chief Sitting Bull. When Major Marcus A. Reno attacked the Indian village early in the Battle of Little Big Horn, One Bull was ordered by Sitting bull to parley with the...
Chief Iron White Man, a minor band chief of the Oglala Sioux, fought under Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn, in which he captured a revolver from a soldier-chief (officer) and nice cavalry horses. “Crazy Horse, along with most of us, was painted for...
Bobtail Bear, an Assiniboine or Stony Sioux warrior in 1876, fought under Chief Scabby Head of the Sihasapa or Blackfeet Sioux at the Battle of Little Big Horn. One of a small party of Assiniboines visiting Yanktonnai Sioux relatives at Little Big Horn, Bobtail Bear...
Bobtail Horse, a Northern Cheyenne warrior in 1876, fought under Chief Lame White Man in the Battle of Little Big Horn. However, while his tribesman were busy fighting Reno’s command early in the battle, Bobtail Horse, two other Cheyennes named Roan Bear and...
Chief Daniel Blue Horse, a leader of the Oglala Sioux, had fought under Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn at age 15. He was chief of the Sioux band from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation which adopted Miller into the tribe in 1939. He died in 1940 at age 79....