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 war....

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 was...

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...

Benjamin Black Bear, a Hunkpapa Sioux, follower of Sitting Bull during the Battle of the Little Big Horn, was 16 years old in 1876. He died in 1939 at age 78. "His nephew, One Bull, rode out to try and talk to the Wasicuns. When they fired at him and his soldiers, he...

Black Wolf, a mature warrior in 1876, was a Northern Cheyenne who fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn under Chief Lame White Man. Son of a Cheyenne sub-chief, Black Wolf became a noted medicine-man in later years. He was 89 when Miller painted this portrait in...

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 Calf, 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 to...

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 he took...