Archive for the ‘Southern Cheyenne’ Category
Here is a ledger drawing from the Spotted Wolf/Yellow Nose Ledger, probably drawn by Yellow Nose himself:
Yellow Nose counting coup with the flag he captured from Long Hair’s soldiers. (Take a look at his short hair!)
— Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
This is a photograph by E. B. Snell: Wolf Road, Cheyenne/Sioux, brother of Man on the Cloud.
— Grahame Wood
There were several men called Whirlwind in Cheyenne history. The man in the Snell photo and in the 1872 photo must be Old Whirlwind (ca.1823-1891), a Southern Cheyenne chief of the Peneteka faction of the Hevhaitaneo (Hair Rope) band, in reservation times situated west of Watonga, Oklahoma, on the North Canadian River. (See John H. Moore, “The Cheyenne Nation”)
His son was called Young Whirlwind; maybe he wears the war-bonnet in the last photo.
There also was a warrior named Little Whirlwind among the Northern Cheyenne.
Here is the 1872 photo of Whirlwind:
Here’s another, a rather impressive looking Whirlwind, obviously not the same Cheyenne?
— Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
Long Chin (ca. 1800-ca. 1889) was a half-brother to Tall Bull. Both were the leaders of the Dog Soldiers in the 1850s and 1860s. The mother of the two headmen was indeed a Lakota woman. Long Chin was a council chief in 1854. In 1863, when he was already 63, he still led the Dog Men.
— Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
There was an 84 year-old Long Chin in the Darlington Cheyenne census in 1887.
In Life of George Bent, he makes reference to the Dog Soldiers and Spotted Tail‘s Brules trading with Little Gerry in 1863, noting that Long Chin was a leader of the Dog Soldiers and there’s a footnoted reference to the fact that Gerry married one of (the Cheyenne) Long Chin’s Sioux nieces… He was also an uncle of Bent.
— Grahame Wood
His name was variously translated as Lame White Man, Walking White Man, Crippled White Man, or Broken White Leg. The Sioux called him Bearded Man or Moustache (which hints at the unusual presence of facial hair). Therefore author Richard Hardorff suggests that Lame White Man may have been a captive of white descendants.
Another Cheyenne name for him was Mad Hearted Wolf or Rabid Wolf, for in battle he was always out in front, “fighting as fiercely as a maddened wolf” (as Peter Powell stated).
His wife was called Twin Woman and he had two children: Red Hat and Crane Woman.
— Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
Chief Lame White man was 37 years old when he died and left behind a widow and two daughters. He is credited with encouraging the warriors to resist the “soldier” excursion into Calhoun Coulee in which the warriors initially fled at their approach. Contrary to the work published by Dr. Marquis who stated that Two Moon led the Cheyennes at the Little Bighorn, Wooden Leg says it was Lame White Man.
A Southern Cheyenne, Lame White Man had been with the northern branch for so long that he and his wife and children were considered to be part of the Northern Cheyenne. He was also referred to as Walking White. In the heat of battle he received mortal wounds and succumbed to these wounds on Custer Ridge. His body was subsequently mistaken as a “Ree” scout for the soldiers and, as a result, scalped by the infuriated Sioux warriors.
Lame White Man was also known as “White Man Cripple” and “Walking White Man.” His martial prowess when battling the “White Man” was so prodigious that his contemporaries honored him with names that signified what happened to “White” soldiers when they came face to face with him. Their intestinal fortitude became so meager that they could offer no more resistance than a cripple or were inclined to walk away rather than fight.
— Realbird
Henry Roman Nose and Wife
Henry Roman Nose was quite a prominent man in late nineteenth century Cheyenne affairs. He was one of the Cheyenne prisoners sent to Fort Marion in April 1875 and later attended Carlisle. He worked as a blacksmith at the Darlington Agency before going into business on his own account. Roman Nose State Park, Oklahoma, is named after him.
— Gary