Louis Looking Horse, a Hunkpapa Sioux, was one of Sitting Bull’s younger yet wildest followers in 1876. After the Battle of Little Big Horn, in which he fought in the later phases, he was among those Sioux who fled with Sitting Bull to Grand-Mother’s Land...
Moses One Feather, an Oglala Sioux warrior aged 27 in 1876, was one of Crazy Horse’s followers in the Battle of Little Big Horn, in which he counted two coups and killed one of Custer’s troopers. During the Ghost Dance outbreak in 1890, One Feather and his...
Although only 13 years old in 1876, he was in the thick of the Battle of Little Big Horn in which he took his first scalp. Later a famed medicine-man and spiritual leader of the Oglala Sioux, he was foremost priest of the Ghost Dance in 1890. He adopted Miller as his...
John Did Not Go Home, an Itazipcho or Sansarc Sioux warrior aged 15 in 1876, fought under Chief Spotted Eagle, fighting Sansarc leader at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He was in both the counterattack against Reno’s command and the final surround and...
John Dives Backward, a Northern Cheyenne 12 year old in 1876, was among the first of the tribe at the start of the Little Big Horn to see the approach of attacking troopers under Reno. He later fought valiantly with other youngsters under the Cheyenne Chief Ice....
John Moves Camp, an Oglala Sioux, veteran of the Battle of Little Big horn, was 89 when Miller painted his portrait in 1941. “I didn’t stay on to see the final killing of the wounded Wasicuns or some scalping and mutilations done by our women and a few...
