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...
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...
