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....
Fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn under Chief Two Moons. He counted a coup which made him very proud. He was 80 winters old when Miller painted his portrait on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. “As a boy I went to the Little Chetis (Wolf) Mountains...
Bear Soldier, a Hunkpapa Sioux warrior and a follower of Sitting Bull in 1876, was an Akicita or policeman of the Fox Warriors doing camp police duty in defending the vast pony herds against Custer’s Arikara scouts early in the Battle of Little Big Horn. Later...
