Henry Kills Alive, a Hunkpapa Sioux, veteran of the Battle of Little Big Horn, was 87 when Miller painted his portrait in 1939. Loyal to Sitting Bull in earlier times, he took part in that leader's assassination in 1890 during the Ghost Dance uprising. "We were all...

Joseph White Cow Bull, an Oglala Sioux warrior aged 38 in 1876, joined three Cheyenne warriors to defend a ford when troops under George A. Custer charged down Medicine Tail Coulee to attack the Indian village. Exchanging shots with a buckskin-clad leader who may well...

Henry Little Soldier (Henry Sitting Bull), one of Sitting Bull's sons, fought as a youthful warrior in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. In 1890, he witnessed his father's assassination by Indian policemen, fled south with other Hunkpapas to join Chief Big Foot's...

Kills a Hundred, an Oglala Sioux warrior in 1876, fought under Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn, in which he killed two soldiers and captured six cavalry horses. In 1890, he was by his own statement among the more rabid of the Ghost Dancers and one of the...

High Bald Eagle, a Sichangu (Burnt thigh) or Brule Sioux 20-year old warrior in 1876, was a follower of Crow Dog at the Battle of Little Big Horn. A nephew of Chief Iron Shell Necklace and a cousin of Chief Spotted Tail, High Bald Eagle had an envious war record which...

Leo Kills Pretty Enemy, son of a Hunkpapa Sioux father and a Brule Sioux mother, was 21 years old at the time of the Battle of Little Big Horn and a seasoned warrior who fount under Chief Crow King, Gall and other fighting leaders. His initiation to the warpath...

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...

Crazy Bull, an Assiniboine or Stony Sioux warrior in 1876, fought under Chief Scabby Head of the Sihasapa or Blackfeet Sioux at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. One of a small party of Assiniboines visiting Yanktonnai Sioux relatives at Little Big Horn, Crazy Bull...

Dewey Beard (Iron Hail), a Minneconjou Sioux warrior aged 17 in 1876, attempted on a dare from a tribesman to capture George A. Custer alive during the battle. Injured at the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890, in which he saw his first wife and child, mother an father...

Drags-The-Rope, an Oglala Sioux warrior aged 20 in 1876, was one of the first Indians to see Custer's approaching column and witnessed the killing of a 10-year old Hunkpapa boy named Deeds by three white soldiers - the first Indian Causally in the Battle of Little Big...

Eagle Elk, a 25-year old Oglala Sioux warrior in 1876, fought against Reno's command and later in the final surround of Cuter's immediate command in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Warned of an impending attack by soldiers before the battle by an old woman, Eagle Elk...

Eagle Nest, a Southern Cheyenne warrior in 1876, fought under Chief Lame White Man in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Led by Chief Brave Bear, eight Southern Cheyennes and their families were visiting Lame White Man, a former southerner himself, at the time of the...

Elk Thunder, a Sichangu (Burnt Thigh) or Brule Sioux warrior aged 23 in 1876, fought under Crow Dog in the Battle of Little Big Horn, in which he counted four coups and took two scalps. "I was 23 the summer had the battle. I remember that day was very hot. Most of us...

Feather Earring, a Hunkpapa Sioux warrior and follower of Sitting Bull in 1876, fought under Chief Crow King at the Battle of the little Big Horn. Fighting mad after his brother Dog-With-Horns was killed early in the battle, he was never sure how many soldiers he shot...

Fools Crow, an Oglala Sioux and brother of Chief Eagle Bear, was an 11-year old apprentice warrior in 1876. After witnessing most of the Battle of Little Big Horn from benchlands overlooking the battlefield, he joined other youngsters who swarmed around Custer's...

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 in a vision;...

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 a tall...

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 Knee,...