LBH Warriors - Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield

Name 

A Crow Cut 

His Nose 

Afraid of 

Eagles 


Hawk, Emil 


Nothing Bear 

Also Known 

As 

Crow Split 

His Nose 

Band and 

Tribe 

Northern 

Cheyenne 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Fools Bear Minnikojou 

Lakota 

All See Him John 

Bighead Man 

American 

Horse 

American 

Horse 

American 

Horse 

Iron Shield or 

Iron Plume 

American Man John Conroy 

or Little 

White Man 


Cheyenne 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 


Cheyenne 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Date of 

Death 

Nov 25, 

1876 

1902 or 

1903 

Sept 9, 

1876 

LBH Warriors 

Remarks Reference 

Little Warrior Chief of the 

Elkhorn Scrapers Warriors 

Society 

Sub Chief & fought alongside 

Kill Eagle – Brother of Bear 

Ribs 

Fought with Crazy Horse in the 

Battle 

A brave man in the Battle, 

according to Wooden Leg 

Lakota Chief - Died of wounds 

at Battle of Slim Buttes 

1908 Chief - Son of Sitting Bear - 

Fought Reno and Custer's 

troops 

July 

1911 

Born 1847 - In valley & 

Medicine Tail fights 

1951 1 of 12 Lakota sharpshooters 

who prevented soldiers going 

for water - At LBHB Semi- 

Centennial 1926 

Marquis, Wooden Leg, 211; 

Powell, People of the Sacred 

Mountain, 1005; Greene, Lakota 

and Cheyenne, 116 

Graham, Custer Myth, 48 & 56; 

Dickson, Sitting Bull Surrender 

Census, 65 

“112 Years Later, Sioux Indian is 

Freed From Unmarked Grave”, 

New York Times, (Aug. 16, 2012) 

Personal ref: Bob Raymond, 

Brule Lakota, Billings MT 

Marquis, Wooden Leg, 326 

Vestal, Sitting Bull, 184-187; 

Johansen, Native American 

Biography, 9 

Greene, Lakota and Cheyenne, 

48-50; Johansen, Native 

American Biography, 9-10 

Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of 

the Custer Fight, 25-31; Powell, 

Sweet Medicine, 113; Aadland, 

Women and Warriors, 106-107 

Ostrander, Semi-Centennial, 26; 

Personal ref: Deb Cordier, 

Oglala, Pine Ridge SD; Viola, 

Little Bighorn Remembered, 117 

Antelope Lakota Gave an interesting account of Abrams, Newspaper Chronicle of 

the Battle in March 1925, while the Indian Wars Vol. 15, 195 

in Washington DC 

Appearing 

Bear 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

In Rosebud Fight - May have 

been at the LBH 

Appearing Elk Lakota 1902 Charging the last cluster of 

soldiers, he was slightly 

wounded & his pony shot from 

under him 

Arapaho Chief Northern 

Cheyenne 

Around the 

Quiver 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Camped with his family on the 

north side of the river when 

Custer’s men attacked 

Surrendered with Crazy Horse 

– May have been at the LBH 

Arrapahoe Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 

- May have been at the LBH 

Ass Hole Oglala 

Lakota 

At the End Oglala 

Lakota 





Bad Arm Lakota Fought at LBH and was 

present at Wounded Knee 

Bad Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Fought Custer’s soldiers with 

Turning Hawk 

Vestal, Sitting Bull, 153 

Thompson, Winners of the West, 

164; Eastman, Indian Heroes 

and Great Chieftains, 149-150 

Liberty, A Northern Cheyenne 

Album, 226; Buecker, Crazy 

Horse Surrender Ledger, 106 

Buecker, Crazy Horse Surrender 

Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 165 


Ledger, 163 


Ledger, 161; Hardorff, Indian 

Views of the Custer Fight, 40 

Clark, Mari Sandoz’s Native 

Nebraska, 7 

Hardorff, Indian Views of the 

Custer Fight, 145

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Bad Hand Oglala 

Lakota 

Bad Heart Bull Oglala 

Lakota 

Bad Horse Northern 

Cheyenne 

Bad Horse Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 

Aug 28, 

1913 





Born 1840 - One of 3 Lakota to 

meet Reno's advance in the 

valley 

Attended 50th Anniversary at 

the battlefield 



Bad Lake Lakota In village during Rosebud Fight 


Bad Light Hair Bad Yellow 

Hair 

Bad 

Minneconjues 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Bad Partisan Oglala 

Lakota 

Bad Soup Bad Juice Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bad Sucker Oglala 

Lakota 

Bad Warrior Ezekial Bad 

Warrior 

Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Bald Eagle Northern 

Cheyenne 

Bear Bird Oglala 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 

May 29, 

1931 


Ledger, 159 

Blish, A Pictographic History of 

the Oglala Sioux, 217; Dickson, 

“Big Road Roster”, CBHMA 

Symposium 2007, 53 


76 


Ledger, 164 


17 

Killed fighting Custer's column Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

121; Vestal, Warpath, 203; 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 134-136 





Had been at Fort Lincoln at 

one time & recognized Custer 



Born Jan 1, 1856 - Living at 

Cheyenne River Agency 1926 

Helped bring in the horses 

before going into the Battle 



Bear Chasing Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Bear Chum Northern 

Cheyenne 

Bear Comes 

Out 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bear Ears Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bear Ghost Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bear Heart Northern 

Cheyenne 

Bear Heart Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bear Horse Oglala 

Lakota 

Bear Jaw Oglala 

Lakota 

1967 interview, Daughter said 

he was in the Battle 




Ledger, 162 


Ledger, 159 

Stewart, Custer's Luck, 188; 

Vestal, Warpath, 203 


Ledger, p 164 

Craige, letter to Shoemaker; 

Personal ref: Dewey Bad 

Warrior, Lakota, Eagle Butte SD; 


Ledger, 161 



Ledger, 157 

Craige, letter to Shoemaker 

Reno, Reno and Apsaalooka, 

301;Wright, “Last Link With Last 

Stand”, Billings Gazette, (Sept 

20, 1969) 


Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48; Evans, 

Custer’s Last Fight, 482 

Said Isaiah Dorman was shot 

in the breast 

Veteran of the Rosebud Fight 

– May have been at the LBH 

Born 1859 - Had bow and 

arrows at LBH Battle, picked 

up a soldiers gun and shells 

At LBHB Semi-Centennial 

1926 



Hardorff, Battle Casualties ll, 

124-125 

Mangum, Battle of the Rosebud, 

102 

www.welchdakotapapers.com 

(See LBH Bibliography) 


Spear, Bozeman Trail, 88 


Ledger, 160

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 


Death 



Bear King Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 

Bear Lice Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Bear Lying 

Down 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Bear Ribs Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bear Shield Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bear Soldier Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bear Star Oglala 

Lakota 

Bear Stops 

Looks Back 

Bear Tail Northern 

Cheyenne 

Bear Thunder, 

Henry 

Bear Walks 

On A Ridge 

Bear With 

Horns 

Bear With 

White Paw 

Ridge Walker 

or Bear That 

Walks 

Counted Coup in the Custer 

column fight 

Indicates some wild firing by 

Custer's column 

1892 In Elk Head’s lodge the night 

of June 24 with Elk Head, 

Crazy Horse, and others – 

Brother of Afraid of Eagles 

Took a lively part in the Battle 

– Accompanied Sitting Bull 

during their exile in Canada 

Defended the pony herds – On 

1929 Standing Rock Agency 

list of Indian survivors of the 

Custer fight 



Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

116; Vestal, Warpath, 197; Miller, 

Custer's Fall, 143 


87 

Bordeaux, Custer’s Conqueror, 

53; Miller, Custer’s Fall, 222; 

Sprague, Standing Rock Sioux, 

21; Graham, Custer Myth, 48 

Paulson, Who’s Who Among the 

Sioux, 17; Vestal, Sitting Bull, 

153 

Vestal, New Sources of Indian 

History, 180; Vestal, Sitting Bull, 

153; Miller, Indians Who Fought 

Custer * 


Ledger, 157 

Lakota Warrior Jensen, Voices of the American 

West Vol. 1, 241 

He and a Lakota killed a man 

who almost got away 

Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 


Cheyenne 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Beard Iron Hail or Minnikojou 

Dewey Beard Lakota 

Beard Mustache Northern 

Cheyenne 

Bear's Cap Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Beaver Claws Northern 

Cheyenne 

Beaver Heart Northern 

Cheyenne 

1941 Born 1834 - Little Warrior Chief 

of the Kit Fox Warrior Society 

June 25, 

1876 

Nov 3, 

1955 


the Custer Fight, 137; Hardorff, 

Battle Casualties ll, 148 




Mountain, 1005; Liberty, notes 

from John Stands In Timber, 322 

Killed along Custer Ridge Vestal, Sitting Bull, 180; Warrior 

Marker, LBH Battlefield 

Body guard to Sitting Bull - In 

Rosebud Fight - May have 


Last Indian survivor of Little 

Big Horn battle 

With Two Feathers, on foot, 

running & shooting – After the 

Battle he scavenged the battle 

site & gathered some pictured 

paper (money) 



153 

Michno, Lakota Noon, 73, 157 & 

313 

Viola, Little Bighorn 

Remembered, 44 

Fought Custer's column McLaughlin, My Friend the 

Indian, 39; Diedrich, Sitting Bull 

Speeches, 75 

1905 Little Chief of Crazy Dog 

Warrior Society – Half-brother 

of Two Moons – Father of 

Young Two Moons 

Fought in the Rosebud and 

Little Big Horn Battles - At 

LBHB Semi-Centennial 1926 



Mountain, 1005; Hardorff, 

Cheyenne Memories of the 

Custer Fight, 151 

Marquis, Cheyennes of Montana, 

254 & 263; Liberty, A Northern 

Cheyenne Album, 7 & 272; 

Ostrander, Semi-Centennial, 26

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Belly Oglala 

Lakota 

Belly Full Oglala 

Lakota 

Belly Inside Oglala 

Lakota 

Belt Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Big Ankles Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Big Beaver Northern 

Cheyenne 

Big Belly Mule Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Bend Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Crow Northern 

Cheyenne 

Big Design Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Eater Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Elk Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Foot Northern 

Cheyenne 

Big Lodge 

Chimney 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Man Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Nose Northern 

Cheyenne 


Death 

Jan 8, 

1877 

June 25, 

1876 

About 

1901 









Fought with Black Moon in the 

Battle 

Sharpshooter on 

Sharpshooter's Ridge 

Born 1863 - Captured a gun 

from a dead soldier in Keogh 

sector - At LBHB Semi- 





- May have been at the Battle 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 162 


Ledger, 158 

Miller, Custer’s Fall, p 264; Miller, 

Indians Who Fought Custer * 

Evans, Custer’s Last Fight, 477 & 

490 


the Custer Fight, 145-150; 


Album, 93; Ostrander, Semi- 

Centennial, 26 


Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 163 

Seen by Sgt Curtis at the box Marquis, Wooden Leg, 211 & 

of hardtack – Member Crooked 250; Greene, Yellowstone 

Lance Society – Killed in Wolf Command, 168-173 

Mountains fight 

Killed in valley fight Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

142; Blish, Pictographic History 

of the Oglala Sioux, 215 



Said Custer shot himself in the 

head 


Ledger, 157 

Maine, Lone Eagle, 135-136 

Fought with Wolf Tooth's Band Stands In Timber & Liberty, 

Cheyenne Memories, 197; 

Michno, Lakota Noon, 136; 

Grinnell, Cheyenne Indians Vol. 

II, 2-3 



Lakota Chief - A leader in the 

Custer fight 

Camp guard.- At LBHB Semi- 


Big Nose Lakota Shot Custer in the water, 

according to the story of a 

Crow scout 

Big Owl Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Road Wide Road Oglala 

Lakota 

Big Wolf Northern 

Cheyenne 



1897 Born 1834 - Led Oglala 

Warriors against Crook at the 

Rosebud Battle & Custer at 

the LBH Battle 




Ledger, 158 

Graham, Custer Myth, 54 


Ostrander, Semi-Centennial, 26 

Stewart, Custer's Luck, 444 


Ledger, 164 

McLaughlin, My Friend the 

Indian, 40; Paulson, Who’s Who 

Among the Sioux, 20; Dickson, 



Powell, Sweet Medicine, 101-102

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Bighead, Kate Antelope 

Woman 

Band and 

Tribe 

Southern 

Cheyenne 


Death 



Born 1847 - Her account 

furnishes the basis for the flow 

of action on Custer’s field 

Bites Cheyenne Visited the battlefield with 

Major Reynolds & told him of 

his participation 

Black Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Black Bird Oglala 

Lakota 

1939 Reluctant to admit being in 

Battle - Saw Custer's column 

at the divide, returned to warn 

the village - Posed for a photo 

at Fort Yates July 30, 1930 

with 2 other Battle participants 


- May have been at the LBH – 

1899 photo Omaha Indian 

Congress – 1902 Buffalo Bill’s 

Wild West postcard - His War 

Shirt, in photos, auctioned in 

2011 for $2,658,500 

Black Body Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Black Bull Brule 

Lakota 

Black Cloud Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Coyote Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Crane Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Deer Oglala 

Lakota 

Black Eagle Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Eagle Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Black Elk Oglala 

Lakota 

Black Elk Nicholas 

Black Elk 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Black Eye Lid Oglala 

Lakota 

Black Fox Oglala 

Lakota 

1897 Wounded in the leg during the 

Battle 

June 

1879 

Dog Soldier – Defended the 

lodges east of the main 

Warriors’ camp at LBH 

Husband of Buffalo Calf Road 

Woman 

At Semi-Centennial 1926 – 

Also spelled Crain & in Semi 

Centennial as Black Grain 



Marquis, Custer on the LBH, 35- 

43; Michno, Mystery of E Troop, 

106 

Frost, “The Treat on Reno Hill”, 

LBHA Newsletter, (June 1976), 3 


41; Hardorff, Lakota 

Recollections, 26; Miller, Indians 

Who Fought Custer *; Burdick, 

Tales From Buffalo Land, 149 


Ledger, 158; Sprague, Pine 

Ridge Reservation, 59; Green, A 

Warrior I Have Been, 43; 

Fitzgerald, Indian Spirit, 68-69 


Papandrea, They Never 

Surrendered, 7, 9 & 14 

Personal ref: Douglas War Eagle, 

Lakota, Dupree SD 

Marquis, Custer on the LBH, 42; 


67; Stands In Timber & Liberty, 

Cheyenne Memories, 241 


Upton, Battle of the LBH & 

Custer’s Last Fight, 114, 124, 

187, 193 & 213 

Hinman, Oglala Sources, 35 

Old Man Cheyenne Chief Powell, People of the Sacred 

Mountain, 1003 

A Sans Arc tribal leader at the 

Little Bighorn 

1889 Father of Black Elk – Woke up 

his son, Black Elk, at daylight 

June 25 and told him to take 

the horses out to graze 

Aug 17, 

1950 

June 25, 

1876 

Born 1863 - In Reno fight & 

took 2 scalps - Son of Black 

Elk 




151 

DeMallie, Sixth Grandfather, 102, 

180 & 259 

Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 88- 

95 & 104-109; Johansen, Native 

American Biography, 35-37; 




Ledger, 157 

Died at Little Bighorn McCreight, Firewater and Forked 

Tongues, 4; Maine, Lone Eagle, 

132

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Black Fox Oglala 

Lakota 

Black Hawk Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Hills Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Horn Oglala 

Lakota 

Black Horse Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Knife Northern 

Cheyenne 


Death 



Father of Black Fox Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

49 

Left with White Bull (Ice) after 

the Battle & traveled with 

Crazy Horse 



Age 15, captured 2 cavalry 

horses in the Battle 

One of 3 seen by Sgt Curtis at 

the box of hardtack - Member 

Little Wolf's band 

Little Chief of the Crazy Dog 

Warrior Society 

Black Man Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


Black 

Moccasin 

Limber 

Lance 

Black Moon Old Black 

Moon 

Black Moon Young Black 

Moon/ Flying 

Charge 


Cheyenne 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Black Moon Loves War Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Black Prairie 

Dog 

Black Ree Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Shield Northern 

Cheyenne 

Black Shield Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Black Stone Black 

Whetstone 

1892 Father of White Bull - 

Regarded as a principal Chief 

of the Cheyenne 

1888 Father of Young Black Moon - 

Surrendered at Standing Rock 

1881 

June 25, 

1876 

March 1, 

1893 

War Leader of the Fox Warrior 

Society - Killed fighting on 

Reno Hill 




Ledger, 156 

Miller, Indians Who Fought 

Custer * 

Miller, Custer's Fall, 74; Stands 

In Timber & Liberty, Cheyenne 

Memories, 209; Marquis, 

Wooden Leg, 250 





Ledger, 165 


the Custer Fight, 37; Powell, 

People of the Sacred Mountain, 

1004 & 1419; Marquis, Wooden 

Leg, 211 

Graham, Custer Myth, 74; 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 42; Utley, 

Lance and Shield, 252 


Hardorff, Hokahey, 42 & 134- 

135; Schoenberger, End of 

Custer, 101 

One of the head Chiefs at the Dickson, “Black Moon: 

Battle, according to scout John Minnikojou Leader”, LBHA 

Bruguier 

Newsletter, (Dec 2006); 

Papendrea, They Never 

Surrendered, 6-7, & 19-20 

Lakota On 1929 Standing Rock 

Agency list of Indian survivors 

of the Custer fight 


Cheyenne 

Attended 1908 gathering at 

LBH with other Cheyennes of 

the Battle 


History, 180 


Mountain, 1079-1086 

____, Lilly Camp, 92 

Minnikojou Band Chief Howard, Warrior Who Killed 

Custer, 31; Hardorff, Lakota 

Recollections, 39 


1926 

Black Tongue Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Black 

Wasichu 

Black White 

Man 

Oglala 

Lakota 

June 27, 

1876 

Wounded & died at Little 

Bighorn 


the Custer Fight, 50; Ostrander, 

Semi-Centennial, 26; Spear, 

Bozeman Trail, 87 



123; Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks,

Name 

Black White 

Man 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 


Cheyenne 

Black Wolf Northern 

Cheyenne 


Death 



98 & 101 

Saw Custer's camp on June Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of 

24 – Living at Lame Deer 1921 the Custer Fight, 144; Taylor, 

With Custer on the LBH, 188 

Took up for late arriving 

Arapahoes as friends, told the 

Lakota not to act hastily 

Blind Water Lakota In 1926 photo of 12 veterans 

of the Battle 

Bloody Knife Oglala 

Lakota 

Blue Cloud Oglala 

Lakota 

Blue Cloud Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Blue Coat Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Blue Horse Oglala 

Lakota 

Blue Shield Brule 

Lakota 

Bluff Oglala 

Lakota 

Blunt Horn Oglala 

Lakota 



With Black Bear's party and 

watched Custer at the divide 

Grinnell, Fighting Cheyennes, 

347 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 92 


Ledger, 163 

Hammer, Custer in '76, 203; 



Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48; Evans, 

Custer’s Last Fight, 482 

White Bull, camped with his 

Sans Arc in-laws, identifies 

him as a Chief at the Battle 

Age 15, fought with Crazy 

Horse in the Battle 

A sub-chief in the Custer 

massacre 



1918 Noted Lakota historian - Died 

during the great influenza 

epidemic of 1918 

Bob Tail Hawk Lakota 1 of 17 Chiefs with Capt Howe 

Aug 18, 1881 at Ft Yates who 

said they were in the Battle 

Bobtail Bear Assiniboine Visiting relatives, fought under 

Scabby Head in the Battle 

Bobtail Bull Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bobtail Horse Northern 

Cheyenne 

Box Elder Dog Stands 

On A Ridge 

Braided Locks Wrapped 

Braids or 

Brady 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Said Sgt. Butler made every 

shot count, he wore 3 stripes – 

On 1929 Standing Rock 



In fight at Medicine Tail Ford - 

Member Elkhorn Society. At 


1892 Prophet who warned of 

Custer's coming 

1936 Born 1840 - Wore war bonnet 

in the Battle 


151; Hardorff, Indian Views of the 



Custer *; Buecker, Crazy Horse 

Surrender Ledger, 161 

“Blue Shield”, Ithaca Daily News, 

Ithaca NY, (June 1, 1905), 

picture/caption; Russell, The 

Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, 

442 


Ledger, 163 


Remembered, 81; Price, Oglala 

People, xi 

Graham, Custer Myth, 74-75 


Custer * 


History, 180; Hardorff, Battle 

Casualties ll, 50; Paulson, Who’s 

Who Among the Sioux, 27-28 

Marquis, Wooden Leg, 98 & 229- 

230; Ostrander, Semi- 

Centennial, 26; Spear, Bozeman 

Trail, 87 


135; Powell, People of the 

Sacred Mountain, 1419 


Spear, Bozeman Trail, 87; 

Powell, Sweet Medicine, 366 

Brave Sans Arc Living at Cheyenne River Craige, letter to Shoemaker;

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Brave Bear Southern 

Cheyenne 

Brave Bird Brule 

Lakota 

Brave Crow Hunkpapa 

Lakota 


Death 



Lakota Agency 1926 Vestal, Warpath, 71 

Dec 29, 

1932 

Honorary distinction as Warrior 

who killed Custer 

Told about his participation in 

the Battle in a 1941 interview 

Counted Coup in the Custer 

fight 


Marquis, Custer on the LBH, 23 

Miller, Custer’s Fall, 250; Miller, 

Indians Who Fought Custer* 

Vestal, Warpath, 197; Miller, 

Custer's Fall, 143; Vestal, Sitting 

Bull, 209 

Brave Hawk Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 

Brave Heart Oglala 

Lakota 

Brave Wolf Oglala 

Lakota 

Brave Wolf Northern 

Cheyenne 

Breech Cloth Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Brings Plenty Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Brings The 

Woman 

Wieaku Brule 

Lakota 

Broken Jaw Northern 

Cheyenne 

1934 Went to Canada after the 

Battle, was recognized as 1 st 

Chief when Wood Mountain 

reserve was created 


Surrendered, 38 & Appendix A; 

www.civilization.ca (See LBH 

Bibliography) 

1878 Surrendered with Crazy Horse Buecker, Crazy Horse Surrender 

- May have been at the LBH – Ledger, 170; DeMallie, Sixth 

After arriving in Canada to join Grandfather, 206 

Sitting Bull, while on a hunting 

trip, was killed by Crow Indians 

on Muddy Creek 

1910 Born about 1820 - Fought 

against Reno then fought 

soldiers at Medicine Tail Ford 

June 25, 

1876 


352; Hardorff, Cheyenne 

Memories of the Custer Fight, 

32-36 

Killed fighting on Reno Hill Hardorff, Hokahey, 86, 97 & 142 

Killed a soldier with a war club Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 96; 

Miller, Custer's Fall, 137; Blish, 

Pictographic History of the Oglala 

Sioux, 192 

An Indian named Lights told 

Walter Camp he was in the 

Battle 

Little Warrior Chief of Elkhorn 

Scrapers Warrior Society 

Broken Knee Received a double break in his 

leg from clubbed muskets 

Brown Back Brown Pants Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Brown Bird Northern 

Cheyenne 

Brown Eagle Hunkpapa 

Lakota 





Behymer, letter to Brininstool 

Discovered Custer at the Miller, Custer's Fall, 88; Hardorff, 

Divide & returned to village to Lakota Recollections, 58 & 109; 

give the alarm – Some sources Evans, Custer’s Last Fight, 482 

say Sans Arc 

Sold a war club to Marquis Personal ref: Margot Liberty, 

Author/Historian, Sheridan WY 

Gave alarm to the camp that 

soldiers were coming 


43 

Brown Eyes Lakota Warrior Jensen, Voices of the American 


Brown Wolf Phillip Brown 

Wolf 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Buffalo Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Jan 11, 

1941 

Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Newspaper article stated he 

was in the Battle 


Personal ref: Bruce Brown Wolf, 

Lakota, Eagle Butte SD 

“Cheyenne Indian Leader Dead”, 

news clipping dateline Pasadena 

CA, no date

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Buffalo Bull Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Buffalo Calf Calf Northern 

Cheyenne 

Buffalo Calf 

Pipe 

Buffalo Calf 

Road Woman 

Brave 

Woman 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 


Cheyenne 

Buffalo Horse Brule 

Lakota 


Death 



Minor War Chief Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

38 

One of first 10 to fire on 

Custer's column - Living 1926 


350; Marquis, Wooden Leg, 229 

Medicine Man Marquis, Wooden Leg, 211 

1879 Fought alongside of husband, 

Black Coyote 

Followed soldiers for 2 days 

before the Battle, then cut 

across to the Greasy Grass to 

join Sitting Bull 


67-68; Marquis, Custer on the 

LBH, 42; Marquis, Wooden Leg, 

330; Powell, Sweet Medicine, 

102-104; Hardorff, Cheyenne 

Memories of the Custer Fight, 

161 


178 

Bull Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 

Bull Bear Southern 

Cheyenne 

Chief of Dog Soldiers – Fought 

Custer’s column 

Bull Dog Lakota 1 of 17 Chiefs with Capt Howe 


said they were in the Battle – 

One of the leaders in the 

Custer massacre 

Bull Eagle Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Bull Head Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Bull Head Southern 

Cheyenne 

Bull Hump Hump Northern 

Cheyenne 

Bull Man Oglala 

Lakota 

Bull Thigh John Bull 

Thigh 

Bull 

Wallowing 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Bullet Proof Northern 

Cheyenne 

Dec 16, 

1876 

Dec 18, 

1890 

Killed in attempt to surrender 

to Miles - May have been at 

the LBH 

Liddic, I Buried Custer, 188-198 

Graham, Custer Myth, 74-75; 

Johnson, Life of Sitting Bull, 417; 

Abrams, Newspaper Chronicle of 

the Indian Wars Vol. 13, 176 


History, 182; Greene, 

Yellowstone Command, 150-151 

Fought with Sitting Bull at LBH Michno, Lakota Noon, 305; Utley, 

Lance and Shield, 306 

Removed a compass from 

Custer's pocket 

Born about 1848 - Said Two 

Moons was Chief Warrior of 

the Cheyennes due to the 

absence of other Chiefs 

Visited the battlefield with 






the Custer Fight, 83-87 


LBHA Newsletter, (June 1976), 

3; Buecker, Crazy Horse 


Painted by J H Sharp who Taylor, With Custer on the LBH, 

called him a tough old Warrior, 188; Riebeth, J H Sharp Among 

fought with Two Moons against the Crow Indians, 25; Fenn, Beat 

Custer - Living at Lame Deer of the Drum and Whoop of the 

1921 

Dance, 123 & 138-140 

Fought troops of Fetterman, 

Crook, and Custer before he 

died an agency policeman 

1879 Took White Shield's war shirt 

to wear in the fight 

Bull’s Ghost Lakota 1 of 17 Chiefs with Capt Howe 


Powell, Sweet Medicine, XIV & 

XIX 




1161 & 1423 

Graham, Custer Myth, 74-75

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Bulls Keep Northern 

Cheyenne 


Death 




Burst Thunder Lakota Told some Lakota that a dead 

Ree (Arikara) should be 

scalped, it turned out to be 

Lame White Man 

Bursting Sun Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


Butt Horn Oglala 

Lakota 

Calling Elk Northern 

Cheyenne 

Charcoal Bear Coal Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Charging Bear John Grass Blackfeet 

or Jumping 

Bear or 

Scabby Head 

Lakota 

Charging 

Hawk 

Charging 

Shield 

Charging 

Thunder 

Charlie-Owns- 

The-Dog 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

May 10, 

1918 

Chase Flying Chasing Fly Lakota March 

1928 

Chase In The 

Morning 

Chased By 

Owls 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Two Kettle 

Lakota 

Chasing Eagle Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Chatka Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 

June 

1876 

Living at Lame Deer 1921 Taylor, With Custer on the LBH, 

188 




been at the Battle 

DeMallie, Sixth Grandfather, 186 


Ledger, 156 


Ledger, 163 


Medicine Man Marquis, Wooden Leg, 205 & 

215 

Born about 1839 – Chief of the 

Blackfeet Lakota at the Little 

Bighorn Battle 


(See LBH Bibliography); 

www.american-tribes.com (See 

LBH Bibliography); Panzeri, Little 

Big Horn 1876, 25 & 28 

Shot a soldier clad in buckskin Michno, Lakota Noon, 276 

Fought the rear guard action 

following the Battle 

His Indian Band called Meat 

Necklace 


Sioux, 41-42 


Custer Fight, 147-148; Dickson, 

Sitting Bull Surrender Census, 33 

Warrior Collings & England, The 101 

Ranch, 168 

A member of the Hunkpapa at 

Little Big Horn Fight – Father 

was Hunkpapa, mother was 

Hunkpati 


(See LBH Bibliography); “Indian 

Fingerprint Index Given State”, 

The Bismarck Tribune, (Oct 11, 

1930) 

Brother of Black Wasichu DeMallie, Sixth Grandfather, 194 

Killed in valley fight Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

110; Maine, Lone Eagle, 132; 




His body was found in 

abandoned tepee in valley - 

Had been a scout at Fort 

Lincoln 

Chief Buffalo Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


Chief Comes 

In Sight 


Cheyenne 

Born about 1849 – The word 

“Chief” being part of his given 

name - Made a brave run at 

“C” Company – Living in 

Oklahoma at the age of 66 


Libby, The Arikara Narrative, 109 


Ledger, 156 



Sacred Mountain, 957; Powell, 

Sweet Medicine, 102-104; 


the Custer Fight, 62 & 161

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Chief Man Oglala 

Lakota 

Circling Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Circling Hawk Oglala 

Lakota 

Closed Hand Black Bear or 

Fist 


Cheyenne 

Cloud Man Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Clown Oglala 

Lakota 

Club Man War Club Oglala 

Lakota 

Coffee Southern 

Cheyenne 

Combing Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Comes Again Oglala 

Lakota 

Comes Flying Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Comes From 

War 

Comes The 

Day 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Contrary Oglala 

Lakota 

Contrary Belly Buffalo Bull 

Wallowing 


Cheyenne 

Corn Charlie Corn Oglala 

Lakota 

Cotton Man Cottonwood Yanktonais 

Nakota 


Death 

June 25, 

1876 

June 25, 

1876 

Early 

1880s 





1 of 17 Chiefs with Capt Howe 



Close friend & bodyguard of 

Sitting Bull 1860-1887 


Ledger, 163 



Sioux, 43 

Fought Reno’s column Paulson, Who’s Who Among the 

Sioux, 44 

Suicide Warrior – Killed near 

last stand hill 

Stands In Timber & Liberty, 




121; Vestal, Warpath, 203 




Ledger, 159 

Born 1835 - Said 5 soldiers Hardorff, Surrender and Death of 

broke from the hill & were Crazy Horse, 120; Hardorff, 

killed - Played a prominent part Battle Casualties ll, 63; Buecker, 

in Custer’s defeat - With Phil Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, 

Sheridan during the 1877 162; Dickson, “War Club was 

battlefield visit 

relative of Crazy Horse”, LBHA 

Newsletter, (April 2008); Dickson, 



1876 Killed by his own rifle, while 

dismounting, a few days after 


1932 Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Entered the Battle in the final 

stages - Living at Pine Ridge 

Reservation 1948 





Bailey, Journey of Visions, 105 & 

113: Sprague, Pine Ridge 

Reservation, 33; Buecker, Crazy 


A Minnikojou chief Howard, The Warrior Who Killed 

Custer, 31-32 







In the charge which 

stampeded some horses in 



Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 159 


Ledger, 164 


351; Hardorff, Cheyenne 

Memories of the Custer Fight, 52 

1939 Born about 1853 - Said 27 Ostrander, Semi-Centennial, 25; 

Indians were killed in the Battle Hardorff, Hokahey, 127; Craige, 

– Fought to save women & letter to Shoemaker; Hardorff, 

Children - At LBHB Semi- Indian Views of the Custer Fight, 


93-95 

Fought Custer's troops and 

took one of their carbines 

Heski, The Little Shadow 

Catcher, 44; Sprague, Standing 

Rock Sioux, 23

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Crawler Oglala 

Lakota 

Crawler Slohan Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Crayfish Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Crazy Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Crazy Bull Brule 

Lakota 


Death 





Father of Moving Robe 

Woman(Mary Crawler) 

Also spelled Crawfish – 

Fearless young Warrior, about 

15 years old at the Battle 



Visiting relatives, fought under 

Scabby Head in the Battle 

Crazy Hawk Lakota On 1929 Standing Rock 



Crazy Head Northern 

Cheyenne 

Crazy Head Oglala 

Lakota 

Crazy Heart Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Crazy Heart Oglala 

Lakota 

Crazy Horse Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Crazy Mule Northern 

Cheyenne 

Crazy 

Thunder 

Crooked Nose Northern 

Cheyenne 

3rd ranking Cheyenne in the 

Battle – Wore a war bonnet in 




1882 A Shirt Wearer - Son of Chief 

Lame Deer 

Sept 5, 

1877 



Born 1840 – In 2003 Douglas 

War Eagle family says "not 

Oglala" 


Warrior Society - Not same 

Crazy Mule in the Fetterman 

fight 

Lakota 1 of 17 Chiefs with Capt Howe 



In the Battle according to 

Shout At 

Chased, along with some 

Lakota, a war bonnet Indian 

belonging with the soldiers 

Cross Bear Lakota On 1929 Standing Rock 



Cross Prick Oglala 

Lakota 

Crossways Oglala 

Lakota 

Crow Hunkpapa 

Lakota 





Said to have given the first war 

cry at the Battle 

Crow Bear Lakota Said Battle lasted as long as it 

takes to walk a mile 

Crow Boy Sans Arc 

Lakota 


Ledger, 164 


91 

Bray, Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, 

364 & 466 


Ledger, 158 




History, 180 

Marquis, Wooden Leg, 211 & 




Ledger, 159 

Lamedeer, Lame Deer, 20; 



Ledger, 157 


Vestal, Warpath, 270; Bray, 

Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, 5 




Bear Nose, “Shout At”, 

Westerners Brand Book, 

Chicago, (March 1962), 7; 






History, 180 


Ledger, 162 


Ledger, 158 

Swanson, Custer: His Life and 

Times, 222; Utley, Lance and 

Shield, 176 

Taylor, With Custer on the LBH, 

186 

Fought Custer's column Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 


Crow Dog Brule 1910 Born 1833 - Fought soldiers on Maine, Lone Eagle, 129-130;

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Crow King Hunkpapa 

Lakota 


Death 


Lakota Custer Hill and caught 3 

horses 



Biography, 89-91 

1884 Leader of 80 Warriors - Fought Graham, Custer Myth, 78; 

in valley, on Reno Hill & Custer Marquis, Keep the Last Bullet for 

Ridge 

Yourself, 167; Sandoz, Battle of 

the LBH, 80; Utley, Lance and 

Shield, 251 

Crow Man Lakota Visited the battlefield with 



Crow 

Necklace 


Cheyenne 

Nov 25, 

1876 


Warrior Society - Wore war 

bonnet in the Battle 

Crow, John Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Cut Belly Open Belly 

or Owns Red 

Horse 

Dancing 

Arrow 


Cheyenne 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Deeds One Hawk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Did Not Go 

Home 

John Ghost 

Dog 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Dirt Kettle Oglala 

Lakota 

Dives 

Backward 


Cheyenne 

Dog Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

June 

1876 

June 25, 

1876 

Wounded in Battle of Little 

Bighorn & died a few days 

later 



Killed prior to Battle at Reno 

Creek - Died at Little Bighorn – 

Some sources say Sans Arc 

Was sleeping in my tipi when 

Custer fired on our camp, the 

fighting took place before noon 

& the regiment was destroyed 

by noon - Counted Coup in 

fight with Custer's column 

With Black Bear’s party and 


Dog Eagle Lakota Warrior, gave information 

about the Battle in 1936 

Dog Ear Oglala 

Lakota 

Dog Friend Dog Northern 

Cheyenne 

Dog Nothing Oglala 

Lakota 

Dog With 

Horns 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 





Mountain, 1005; Greene, 

Morning Star Dawn, 131, 244 & 

247 




Sweet Medicine, 112; Hardorff, 

Hokahey, 73 & 147 


Ledger, 161 

Miller, Custer's Fall, 3-5 & 88; 

Michno, Lakota Noon, 27 & 47; 


Custer Fight, 138; Hardorff, 

Lakota Recollections, 58 & 93 


Vestal, Warpath, 196; Ostrander, 

Semi-Centennial, 25; Upton, 

Battle of the LBH & Custer’s Last 

Battle; 186; Ghost Dog speech 

sent to Indian Affairs, April 18, 

1940 

Powers, The Killing of Crazy 

Horse, 515 

Nephew of White Shield Michno, Lakota Noon, 104 

Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48; 






1926 



Masters, Shadows Fall Across 

the Little Horn, 30 


Ledger, 160 


263; Ostrander, Semi- 

Centennial, 26 


Ledger, 164 

Killed in the valley fight Vestal, Warpath, 204; Miller, 

Custer's Fall, 108; Maine, Lone 

Eagle, 132; Hardorff, Lakota

Name 

Dog's Back 

Bone 

Don't Amount 

To Anything 

Don’t Get Out 

Of The Way 

Don't Paint 

His Face 

Drags The 

Rope 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Dried Prick Oglala 

Lakota 

Dry Lake Oglala 

Lakota 

Duck Belly Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 

June 26, 

1876 



Recollections, 109-110 

Killed in hilltop fight Maine, Lone Eagle, 132; 





1 of 17 Chiefs with Capt Howe 




Ledger, 164 



Ledger, 157 

Sub-Chief Hardorff, Indian Views of the 


1942 Witnessed the Killing of Deeds 

– Later followed Crazy Horse 

in the fight 







Eagle Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


Eagle Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Eagle 

Chasing, Ray 

Eagle 

Chasing, 

Joseph 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Eagle Elk Oglala 

Lakota 

Dec 

1938 

Age 16 in the Battle – Fought 

Custer and Reno – Fought 

with pistol, bow and arrow - At 



1926 

Was a Scout for the Army after 

the Battle – Buried at Cherry 

Creek SD - At LBHB Semi 


Miller, Custer's Fall, 5-6; Miller, 



Ledger, 163 


Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 156 



Custer Fight, 187-189; Viola, 

Little Bighorn Remembered, 74- 

75; Hunt, I Fought With Custer, 

215-219 



Personal ref: Ron Eagle Chasing, 




Personal ref: Ron Eagle Chasing, 


Born 1851 - Eagle Elk & 8 Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

others charged the west end of 98-105; Jensen, Voices of the 

Calhoun ridge – Mother, Pretty American West Vol. 1, 358-359 

Feather Woman, was Nakota 

Eagle Man Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 

Eagle Nest Southern 

Cheyenne 

Eagle Pipe Brule 

Lakota 

Eagle Tail 

Feather 

Eagle 

Thunder 


Cheyenne 

Ear Ring Prick Oglala 

Lakota 

Visiting Lame White Man at 

time of Battle 

Custer Battle survivor living at 

Rosebud Agency in 1900 



Dyck, Brule: Sioux People of the 

Rosebud, 124-125 

He, with others, chased 3 Marquis, Wooden Leg, 222-223 

soldiers south along west bank 

of river 


Agency 1926 





Ledger, 163 

Elk Bear Sans Arc June 25, Killed fighting Custer's column Vestal, Warpath, 203; Hardorff,

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Elk Head Red Eagle Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Elk Heart Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Elk Nation Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Elk River Northern 

Cheyenne 

Elk Stands 

Above 

Elk Stand On 

Top or 

Standing Elk 


Death 



Lakota 1876 Lakota Recollections, 121; 

Maine, Lone Eagle, 37 

Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Enemy Oglala 

Lakota 

Face Turner Oglala 

Lakota 

Fast Bear Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Fast Bull Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Fast Eagle 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Fast Horn Oglala 

Lakota 

Fast Thunder Oglala 

Lakota 

Fast Walker Northern 

Cheyenne 

Dec 14, 

1914 

1908- 

1909 

June 25, 

1876 

March 4, 

1914 

Born Dec 26, 1825 - Died at 

Green Grass, Cheyenne River 

Reservation 

Miller, Custer's Fall, 222; 


53; Personal ref: Dewey Bad 

Warrior, Lakota, Eagle Butte SD 

Slightly wounded in valley fight Hardorff, Hokahey, 39 

Fought Custer’s column & 

rescued wounded Little Bear – 




Born 1818-1820 - One of many 

Indians who were at the LBH 

Battle and painted by J H 

Sharp – Identified in the 

Gilcrease catalog of 1949 


Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 95; 


History, 180 

Riebeth, J H Sharp Among the 

Crow Indians, 25; Powell, People 

of the Sacred Mountain, 1424 

Killed fighting on Reno Hill Vestal, Warpath, 201 & 204; 


103; Hardorff, Hokahey, 49; 

Blish, Pictographic History of the 

Oglala Sioux, 247 





He and Spotted Eagle led the 

Sans Arc 

Leader of the Minnikojou. 

along with Hump 

Claims he held Custer's arms 

as Walking Blanket Woman 

(Moving Robe Woman) 

stabbed him in the back 

Saw Custer at the Crows Nest 

and rode to warn village 

Born 1839 - Oglala Chief who 

fought with Crazy Horse at 

LBH – Although Curtis writes 

he was not engaged in the 

Custer fight 

Attended LBHB Semi- 



Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 160 

Miller, Custer's Fall, 48 


Michno, Lakota Noon, 29 

Miller, Custer's Fall, 210; Miller, 

“Echoes of LBH”, American 

Heritage, (June 1971), 29 

Hammer, Custer in '76, 206 

Kadlecek, To Kill An Eagle, 124 

& 130; Powers, The Killing of 

Crazy Horse, 459; Curtis, North 

American Indian Vol. 3, 184 


Custer’s Last Battle, 64, 93 & 

130 

Fat Bear Lakota Ran 15 Miles to warn camp Hardorff, Hokahey, 22 & 167; 


Fat Clown, 

Paul 

Fat On The 

Beef 

Fat Hide Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Fat Rump Oglala 

Lakota 


Agency 1926 

Dec 16, 

1876 











Ledger, 162

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Fears Nothing Respects 

Nothing or 

Fearless 

Feather 

Earring 

Band and 

Tribe 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Feather Moon Oglala 

Lakota 

Feathered 

Sun 

Feathers, 

Frank 

White Frog Northern 

Cheyenne 

Fills The Pipe Oglala 

Lakota 

Fills Up Oglala 

Lakota 

Fine Weather John Swan Minnikojou 

Lakota 


Death 


1923 Born 1854 - Indicated action 

on Custer field began with “C” 

Company – On 1929 Standing 

Rock Agency Indian survivors 



Saw a dead Indian & soldier 

he thought was alive, shot the 

soldier who jumped up, then 

was killed with an arrow, he 

had been playing dead 



1926 In Rosebud Fight – In the 

Custer Fight according to his 

son Little Coyote 

Lakota Was northeast of the river 

watching the ponies when he 

received word of soldiers 

coming 

Jan 10, 

1932 






Agency 1926 

Fire Crow Cheyenne Living at Fort Keogh 1878, told 

D. J. O’Malley about the Battle 

Fire Thunder Oglala 

Lakota 

1937 Visited the battlefield with 



First Eagle Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Fish’s Body Lakota Wounded in the Battle, 

surrendered at Cheyenne 

River Agency 

Flapping Horn Northern 

Cheyenne 

Flat Hip Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Flat Iron Northern 

Cheyenne 

Flat Iron 

(Flatiron) 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Fleece Northern 

Cheyenne 

Flying By Oglala 

Lakota 




25-34; Vestal, New Sources of 

Indian History, 180; Jensen, 

Voices of the American West Vol. 

1, 302-307; Dickson, Sitting Bull 

Surrender Census, 131 


Hardorff, Hokahey, 42 & 80 


Ledger, 159 


339; Liberty, Notes from John 

Stands In Timber, 408, 422-423 

& 442 


54 


Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 162 




“Indian Chiefs in Battle on the 

LBH”, Billings Times, (nd) 



3; Kadlecek, To Kill An Eagle, 

100 


Lt Col F D Grant, report to R C 

Dunn, Sept 5, 1876 


Ledger, 156 

Long afterwards, he was one Stewart, Custer's Luck, 486 

of several who claimed to have 

killed Custer 

Said most of the soldiers were 

killed with clubs 

Great Orator, harangued the 

Indians before they went into 

the Custer fight 



An old man in the Custer fight, 

exhorting the young men 

Stewart, Custer's Luck, 434, 456 

& 486 

Collings & England, The 101 

Ranch, 168; Fenn, Beat of the 

Drum and the Whoop of the 

Dance, 134-135 


Ledger, 156 


87

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Flying By Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Flying Chaser Brule 

Lakota 

Flying Hawk Oglala 

Lakota 

Fool Bull Brule 

Lakota 

Foolish Elk Oglala 

Lakota 

Foolish Elk Brule 

Lakota 

Foolish Heart Minnikojou 

Lakota 


Death 


1885 Horse shot in valley fight, he 

secured another horse for 

Custer fight 

Head man of the Brules but 

not a big Chief 

Dec 24, 

1931 


Born 1852 - With Crazy Horse 

in Battle - Son of Black Fox & 

Iron Cedar Woman 

Born 1844 – In the Battle 

carried a buffalo hide shield 

which is now on display in the 

Lakota Museum in Rapid City 

With Crazy Horse In the Battle 

- Said Custer charged at 

Calhoun Hill & at Monument 

Wounded in the Rosebud 

Battle, watched LBH Battle 

from the doorway of his lodge 


87; Michno, Lakota Noon, 114, 

152 & 304; Vestal, Warpath, 270 

Hammer, Custer in ’76, 206; 


38 & 178 

McCreight, Firewater and Forked 

Tongues, 3-14; Hardorff, Lakota 

Recollections, 49, 52 & 54 

Anderson, Sioux of the Rosebud, 

286; Hook, Warriors LBH, 38 

Hammer, Custer in ’76, 197-200; 


69 


53 & 57-58; Hardorff, Indian 


1882 Brother of Flying By Michno, Lakota Noon, 81; 

Hardorff, Camp, Custer and the 

LBH, 91 

Four Bears Lakota In Elk Head’s lodge the night 


Crazy Horse, and others 

Four Bullets Oglala 

Lakota 

Four Crows Oglala 

Lakota 

Four Horns Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Four Horses Hunkpapa 

Lakota 





1887 Lakota Chief - Deeds 

grandfather – Went to Canada 

with Sitting Bull after the Battle 

Miller, Custer’s Fall, 222; 


53 


Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 163 

Miller, Custer's Fall, 4 & 87; 

Utley, Lance and Shield, 252; 


Sioux, 80 

Lakota Chief Personal ref: Bob Raymond, 


Frog Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


Frog Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Full Stomach Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Gall Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Gets Together Oglala 

Lakota 

Ghost Hide Northern 

Cheyenne 

Gives Out Oglala 

Lakota 

Goes After 

Other Buffalo 


Cheyenne 

Dec 5, 

1894 


Ledger, 156 

Leader of a small kinship unit Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

39 

Born 1838 - Warrior Chief - 

Said he fought Reno and he 

fought Custer, then he fought 

Reno soldiers again 








Elkhorn Scraper Warrior 


Fielder, Sioux Indian Leaders, 46 

& 57-71; Michno, Lakota Noon, 

306 


Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 156 


Ledger, 160 

Marques, Wooden Leg, 211; 

Powell, People of the Sacred

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Good Bear Pretty Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Good Bear Southern 

Cheyenne 

Good Bear 

Boy 

Pretty Bear Hunkpapa 

or Good Bear Lakota 

Good Boy Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 



Society Mountain, 1005 

Leader of a small group of 

Indians - Father of Good Bear 

Boy 

In a teepee at the LBH which 

contained 6 men & 6 women 

Wounded in valley fight, 

rescued by One Bull 



Good Dog Lakota On 1929 Standing Rock 



Good Fox Minnikojou 

Lakota 

1928 Fought in the Custer fight and 

survivor of Wounded Knee 

Good Hand Knew how to repair jammed 

guns thrown away by the 

soldiers 

Good Horse Lakota Led his Warriors in Rosebud & 

Little Bighorn Battles 

Good Lance Oglala 

Lakota 

Good Voiced 

Dog 

Good Voiced 

Elk 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Good Weasel Oglala 

Lakota 

Goose 

Feathers 


Cheyenne 

Gopher Oglala 

Lakota 

Grandfather Oglala 

Lakota 

Grass Uses Him As 

A Shield 

Blackfeet 

Lakota 

Grass Rope Brule 

Lakota 

Grasshopper Isaac 

Grasshopper 


Cheyenne 

Gray Bull Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Born 1846 - Fled to Canada 

after the Battle - Took part in 

the Messiah craze & ghost 

dance 

Said Gray Earth Track 

(Sounds The Ground As He 

Walks) captured a sorrel with 

white fetlocks, a blaze face… 

Witnessed movement of 30 

men from Custer Hill at end of 

fight 


at the LBH 

Dull Knife’s Son - In Rosebud 

Fight - May have been at the 

LBH 





Father of Charging Bear, who 

said he was at the LBH Battle 

1943 Age 15 & fought with Crow 

Dog in the Battle 

Told Marquis details of the 

Battle – Living at Lame Deer 

1921 







Michno, Lakota Noon, 70; Miller, 

Custer's Fall, 100 


Ledger, 159 


History, 180 

Lamedeer, Lame Deer, 20 

Sandoz, Crazy Horse, 322 


26 

Burgum, Zezula, 164; Cardozo, 

Chiefs & Warriors, 34 

Hardorff, Battle Casualties ll, 



Michno, Lakota Noon, 149 & 

260;Hardorff, Lakota 

Recollections, 69 & 168 

Vaughn, With Crook at the 

Rosebud, 140; Hinman, Oglala 

Sources, 35 


341-342 


Ledger, 161 


Ledger, 159 


(See LBH Bibliography); 


LBH Bibliography) 




188; Marquis, Cheyennes of 

Montana, 42 


Gray Eagle Hunkpapa Born about 1851 - Brother-In- Michno, Lakota Noon, 27 & 304;

Name 

Gray 

Whirlwind 

Also Known 

As 

Greases His 

Arm 

Guts Open Belly 

or Rectum 

Band and 

Tribe 

Sunken Ass Yanktonais 

Nakota 


Death 


Lakota Law of Sitting Bull – In 

Rosebud & LBH Battles 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Hail Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Hair Oglala 

Lakota 

Hair Lip Northern 

Cheyenne 

Hairy Oglala 

Lakota 

Hairy Chin Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Hairy Hand Northern 

Cheyenne 

Hanging Wolf Northern 

Cheyenne 

Hangs His 

Head 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Hard To Hit Oglala 

Lakota 

Has Horns Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 


Born 1840 - Reported Sitting 

Bull's horse wounded at start 

of valley fight 



Killed in the fight with Custer’s 

command 



14 years old at time of Battle - 

Said village extended on both 

sides of LBH 

Dog Soldier – Defended the 

lodges east of the main 

Warriors’ camp at LBH 




Sioux 88; Hardorff, Indian Views 

of the Custer Fight, 158 



Custer Fight, 131-132 


Ledger, 163 

Vestal, Warpath, 203; Personal 

ref: Ira Blue Coat, Sans Arc 

Lakota, Eagle Butte SD; Blish, 

Pictographic History of the Oglala 

Sioux, 215 


Liddic, Vanishing Victory, 103 




Ledger, 159 

Lakota Medicine Man Robinson lll, A Good Year to Die, 

153; Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 

84-85 

Defended the lodges east of 

the main Warriors’ camp at 

LBH - Living at Lame Deer 

1921 


Album, 7 & 94-95; Personal ref: 

Douglas War Eagle, Lakota, 

Dupree SD 

Crossed the river, fired at Stands In Timber & Liberty, 

Custer's column as they 

approached Medicine Tail Ford 

Cheyenne Memories, 199 & 209 




Ledger, 161 

1878 One of 3 Lakota to meet Blish, A Pictographic History of 

Reno’s advance in the valley – the Oglala Sioux, 217-218; 

After arriving in Canada to join DeMallie, Sixth Grandfather, 206 

Sitting Bull, while on a hunting 

trip, was killed by Crow Indians 

on Muddy Creek 

Hawk Cheyenne Killed Custer according to Rain 

In The Face 

Hawk Bear, 

Moses 

Hawk Man Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Fought Custer's column Miller, Custer's Fall, 139; 


77, 110 & 162 


Agency 1926 

June 25, 

1876 

Lakota Chief - Killed in front of 

Reno skirmish line – Some 

sources say Hunkpapa 

Hawk Soldier Lakota Wounded in the Rosebud 

Fight, saved by White Bull 

Minnikojou - May have been at 

Swanson, Custer: His Life and 

Times, 220 



93-94; Vestal, Warpath, 203 

Vestal, Warpath, 189

Name 

Hawk Stays 

Up 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

He Dog Oglala 

Lakota 

He Dog Northern 

Cheyenne 

Heap Bear 

Lays Down 

High Bald 

Eagle 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Brule 

Lakota 

High Bear Tall Bear Sans Arc 

Lakota 

High Bear Tall Bear or 

White 

Antelope 


Cheyenne 

High Bull Northern 

Cheyenne 

High Eagle Oglala 

Lakota 

High Eagle Sans Arc 

Lakota 

High Horse Oglala 

Lakota 

High Horse Minnikojou 

Lakota 

High Walking Northern 

Cheyenne 


Death 



Counted Coup in fight with 

Custer 

1936 Born 1840 - Warrior Chief - 

Fought at Medicine Tail Ford 






A follower of Crow Dog in the 

Battle 

Miller, Custer's Fall, 148; Vestal, 

Warpath, 199 


72-79; Hammer, Custer in '76, 

205-208; Michno, Lakota Noon, 

303 


254 


Ledger, 157 



1910 Sub Chief Hardorff, Surrender and Death of 

Crazy Horse, 104; ___, Lilly- 

Camp, 675 

July 7, 

1876 

Nov 25, 

1876 

Identified by Kill Eagle as 

being in the Battle – Killed in 

the Sibley fight days after 

leaving the LBH Battle 

Captured a 7 th Cavalry roster 

book at the Battle and filled it 

with drawings 

1953 One of four survivors of the 

Battle to attend the 75 th 

Anniversary 

June 25, 

1876 

June 25, 

1876 

Lakota Chief - Died at Little 


Gray, Centennial Campaign, 

340-341; Greene, Lakota and 

Cheyenne, 73-79; Graham, 

Custer Myth, 54; Powell, People 

of the Sacred Mountain, 1044- 

1045 


Mountain, 1062; Powell, “High 

Bull’s Victory Roster”, Montana 

Magazine of Western History, 

(Winter 1975), 14-21 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 120; Collins, 

Proud Survivors: Voices LBH, 30; 

Sprague, Pine Ridge 

Reservation, 30 

Sandoz, Battle of the LBH, 87; 



Warrior Sprague, Pine Ridge 


In valley fight - Killed in fight 

with Custer's column 

Son of One Horn – Living at 

Lame Deer 1921 

Hind Bull Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


His Fights Oglala 

Lakota 

His High 

Horse 

Sans Arc 

Lakota 

His Holy Pipe Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

His Road Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 149; Miller, 

Custer's Fall, 109-110 & 146 


188; Marquis, Wooden Leg, 266 


Ledger, 156 

Born 1832 - Warrior Johnson, Sioux: Warriors of the 

Plains, 46-47; Curtis, North 

American Indian Vol. 3, 186 

A Sans Arc tribal leader at the 

Little Bighorn 

Vestal, Sitting Bull, 143; Hardorff, 

Indian Views of the Custer Fight, 

152 

Wounded Isaiah Dorman Hardorff, Indian Views of the 

Custer Fight, 183 & 230 


Fort Yates in the 1920’s 

Burdick, Last Battle of the Sioux 

Nation, 153; 

www.welchdakotapapers.com

Name 

His White 

Horse 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Hoarse Oglala 

Lakota 

Hole In Face Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 


Lakota Living at Standing Rock 

Agency 1935 







Milligan, Dakota Twilight, 170; 

Burdick, Tragedy in the Great 

Sioux Camp, picture/caption 


Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 161 

Hollow Horn Lakota Relative of Hollow Horn Bear – Abrams, Newspaper Chronicle of 

Gave an interesting account of the Indian Wars Vol. 15, 195 

the Battle in March 1925, while 


Hollow Horn 

Bear 

Hollow Horn 

Eagle 

Brule 

Lakota 

Brule 

Lakota 

Hollow Horns Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Hollow 

Sunflower 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Hollow Wood Northern 

Cheyenne 

Hollow Wood, 

Minnie 

Holy Bald 

Eagle 

Black Twin Oglala 

Lakota 

Holy Bull Holy Buffalo 

or White 

Twin 

1913 Born 1850 - Said soldiers kept 

together and would shift 

positions 

Dec16, 

1876 

Told about his participation in 

the Battle in a 1941 interview 






Surrendered to Nelson A. 

Miles, served as Scout - At 


Lakota Wife of the Cheyenne Hollow 

Wood - Entitled to wear a war 

bonnet by participating in 

combat with men Warriors 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Holy Cloud Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Holy Face 

Bear 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

1876 Holy Bull’s twin brother - His 

lodge was north of Sitting 

Bull’s camp 


177-186; Anderson, Sioux of the 

Rosebud, 272 







Ledger, 158 


29 & 263; Spear, Bozeman Trail, 

67; Ostrander, Semi-Centennial, 

26 

Marquis, Custer on the LBH, 

opposite page 36; Liberty, A 

Northern Cheyenne Album, 170 

Chapman, Promise, 137 & 139; 


Remembered, 66-73 

1877 Holy Bald Eagle’s twin brother Chapman, Promise, 137-139; 

– His lodge was north of Sitting Buecker, Crazy Horse Surrender 

Bull’s camp 

Ledger, 157; Viola, Little Bighorn 


Fought alongside Gray 

Whirlwind and Iron Bear 

Said soldiers shot high over 

heads of Indians 

Horn Cloud Lakota Camp Chief of the 

Rosebud/upper & lower Brule 

& Sans Arc at the LBH 

Horned 

Antelope 

Horned Horse Oglala 

Lakota 

Horse Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Lakota In Elk Head’s lodge the night 


Crazy Horse, and others 

Chief, whose son White Eagle 

was killed at LBH 







Donahue, Drawing Battle Lines, 

237 

Miller, Custer’s Fall, 222; 


53 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 52; Hardorff, 


39-42 


Ledger, 162 

Horse Road Chicken Northern Father of Limber Hand (Limber Marquis, Wooden Leg, 257;

Name 

Horse Runs 

Ahead 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 


Death 


Hawk Cheyenne Bones), suicide boy - Warrior 

served as camp guard 

Lakota Wounded in the heel in the 

Rosebud battle, was at the 

Custer battle but did not fight 

Horseshoe Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Howling Wolf Northern 

Cheyenne 

Hump High Back 

Bone 

Humped Little 

Crow 

Hunts The 

Enemy 

Owns Sword 

or Sword 

Inkpaduta Scarlet Point 

or Red Top 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Santee 

Dakota 

Iron Bear Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Nov 

1908 

Oct 17, 

1910 



Vaughn, With Crook on the 

Rosebud, 67; Jensen, Voices of 

the American West Vol. 1, 316 


Wore war bonnet in the Battle Marquis, Wooden Leg, 214 & 

244; Grinnell, Fighting 

Cheyennes, 336 

Born 1847 – Chief - Fought 

Reno & Custer – Shot in leg – 

Died on the Cheyenne River 

Reservation 

Said Inkpaduta's son got 

Custer's horse 

Born 1847 - Member of the 

Bad Face Band 

1879 Leader of 15 lodges – Fishing 

with his 4 year old son, Little 

Ghost, when Reno attacked 

Traveled with Thunder Bear 

from Old Fort Peck to LBH 

Iron Bull Lakota Agreed with the account of the 

Battle given by Red Hawk & 

others to Nickolas Ruleau 

Iron Cedar Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Iron Crow Oglala 

Lakota 

Iron Dog Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Iron Elk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Iron Hawk Oglala 

Lakota 

Iron Hawk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Brought word to Warriors in 

valley fight of Custer's 

advance 

Born 1828 - Oglala war party 

leader (blotahunka) 

Said no strategy, no trap, each 

group of Indians approached 

Custer by nearest route 




Hardorff, Hokahey, 29; Hardorff, 

Battle Casualties ll, 180 

Jensen, Voices of the American 

West Vol. 1, 326; Sprague, Pine 

Ridge Reservation, 48; Hardorff, 

Lakota Recollections, 69; 


Sioux, 239 

Beck, Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader, 

6, 135-136 & 140; Donovan, A 

Terrible Glory, 6 & 132-133 


Custer Fight, 87-88 & 132 


169-170 


“Warriors Who Fought Custer 

Visited Custer in 1877”, 

Westerners Brand Book, (Sept 

1959); Price, Oglala People, 158; 

Dickson, “Big Road Roster”, 

CBHMA Symposium 2007, 54 

Wells, “LBH Notes: Stanley 

Vestal’s Indian Insights”, CBHMA 

Greasy Grass, (May 1989), 17; 

Vestal, Sitting Bull, 92, 207 & 215 

Bodyguard to Sitting Bull Michno, Lakota Noon, 39 

1908 Born 1834 – Interviewed by 

Ricker 1907 – Wounded in the 

LBH Battle, shot through the 

body 

1950 Born 1862 – Interviewed by 

Neihardt 1931 - Age 14 at the 

time of the Battle - Killed a 

soldier with bow & arrow in the 

fight with Custer 

Jensen, Voices of the American 

West Vol. 1, 52, 314-318 & 398; 



DeMallie, Sixth Grandfather, 190- 

193; Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 

93-97; Hardorff, Lakota 

Recollections, 62; Bailey. 

Journey of Visions, 112

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Iron Horse Oglala 

Lakota 

Iron Lightning Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Iron Magpie Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 




1926 

Crossed the river to fight 




Iron People Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Iron Shell Brule 

Lakota 

Iron Shirt Northern 

Cheyenne 

Iron Star Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Iron Tail Oglala 

Lakota 

Iron Thunder Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Iron White 

Man 

Iron White 

Man 

Iroquois 

Imitation 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Issues John Issues Northern 

Cheyenne 

Jealous Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Jumping Bull Little 

Assiniboine 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Just Walks Northern 

Cheyenne 

Kansu Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Visited the battlefield with 



1929 Saw a soldier wearing a 

buckskin jacket, in attempting 

to remove it, saw it was blood 

stained 

May 7, 

1877 

May 28, 

1916 




Warpath, 195; Hardorff, Indian 



Ledger, 157 




3; Anderson, The Sioux of the 

Rosebud, 273 & 284 

Powell, Sweet Medicine, 117; 


219; Taylor, With Custer on the 


Warrior Chief Lamedeer, Lame Deer, 19; 



A veteran of the Indian Wars 

including the LBH - Living at 

Pine Ridge Agency 1913 

Born about 1848 – Brother of 

Hump – Did not know of 

Reno’s attack until his men 

were so close bullets were 

flying, chased soldiers across 

the river, then heard reports of 

other soldiers to the north 

1930 Born 1859 - Camped and 

surrendered with Crazy Horse 


Dec 15, 

1890 

Camped next to White Bull, 

Minnikojou, at LBH 



Captured a 1873 Springfield 

rifle at the Battle – Living at 

Lame Deer 1921 



Assiniboine captive & adopted 

by Sitting Bull 


Miles, served as scout - At 


With One Bull and others, 

charged as Reno fell back to 

the timber 


Biography, 179;Sprague; Pine 

Ridge Reservation, 49 



Custer Fight, 57, 61-62 & 155; 

Michno, Lakota Noon, 94, 109, 

113, 115, 125 & 246 


Ledger, 162; Bray, Crazy Horse: 

A Lakota Life, 12, 263 & 273; 





Ledger, 158 


256; Liberty, A Northern 

Cheyenne Album, 7; Taylor, With 

Custer on the LBH, 188 


Ledger, 156 


120 



Kicking Bear Oglala 1904 Son of Black Fox & Iron Cedar Hardorff, Lakota Recollections,

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Kill Eagle Blackfeet 

Lakota 

Kills A 

Hundred 


Death 


Lakota Woman - With Crazy Horse in 

Battle 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Kills Alive Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Kills At Night Oglala 

Lakota 

Kills Enemy In 

Winter 

Oglala 

Lakota 


Chief with 26 Lodges - Age 56 

at time of Battle 

Killed 2 soldiers & captured 6 

horses 

84; Blish, Pictographic History of 

the Oglala Sioux, 217; Johansen, 

Native American Biography, 198- 

199 




Said 21 Indians were killed Hardorff, Hokahey, 144; Miller, 

Custer’s Fall, 241 & 264 



With Black Bear's party & 


Kills Hawk Lakota On 1929 Standing Rock 



Kills Him Killed Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Kills In The 

Night 

Kills in the 

Water 

Kills Night Northern 

Cheyenne 

Blackfeet 

Lakota 

Kills Many Northern 

Cheyenne 

Kills Pretty 

Enemy 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Kills Standing Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Kills The 

Married 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Kingman Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Knife Oglala 

Lakota 

Knife Chief Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Lame Deer Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Lame Red 

Skirt 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 

May 7, 

1877 

Dec 16, 

1876 

Killed in fight with Custer's 

column 

One of the Indians who chased 

soldier on Sorrel horse - At 


Soldiers shot into the air, we 

rode into them and killed them 

with war clubs 



Fought with Crow King & Gall 


Brother of Lazy White Buffalo 

(White Bull, Minnikojou) 




Ledger, 163 





History, 180 

Vestal, Warpath, 203; Hardorff, 


Maine, Lone Eagle, 132 


the Custer Fight, 56; Ostrander, 

Semi-Centennial, 26; Spear, 





Ledger, 156 





Ledger, 160 

Son of Dog's Back Bone Hardorff, Indian Views of the 




Severely wounded in the valley 

fight, relations removed him on 

a travois – Camp Crier of 

Sitting Bull’s Band 





48; Hardorff; Hokahey, 39; 



Chief & Leader in the Battle Marquis, Wooden Leg, 211; 


39; Hatch, Custer LBH 

Encyclopedia, 100 






Yellowstone Command, 151 

Lame Sioux Northern With Wooden Leg hunting, Powell, People of the Sacred

Name 

Lame White 

Bull 

Lame White 

Man 

Also Known 

As 

Bearded Man 

or Walking 

White Man 

Band and 

Tribe 


Death 


Cheyenne they spotted Crook on the 

Rosebud - May have been at 



Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Last Bull Northern 

Cheyenne 

Lays 

Laughing 

Oglala 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 


Dog Soldier Warrior - Fought 


Led charge on Custer Ridge - 

Killed in Custer fight 

Warrior Chief of the Kit Fox 




Lean Crow Poor Crow Lakota 1919 Followed Sitting Bull to 

Canada 

Left Hand Arapahoe Mistook a Lakota for a Crow & 

killed him 

Left Hand 

Shooter 


Cheyenne 

Leggings Oglala 

Lakota 

Lightning 

Killer 

Lightning, 

Frank 

Lights Runs After 

The Clouds 

Oglala 

Lakota 


Cheyenne 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Likes To Fight Oglala 

Lakota 

Limber Bones Flying By or 

Limber Hand 


Cheyenne 

Limpy Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Back Oglala 

Lakota 

Little Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Little Big Man Oglala 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 



Society – Left with White Bull 

(Ice) after the Battle & traveled 

with Crazy Horse 





Born 1840? - Told John 

Stands In Timber about the 

Battle 

Born about 1853 - Fought 

under Spotted Elk against 

Reno & Custer – A comrade 

was shot in the valley fight 



Suicide Warrior - Killed fighting 



Miles, served as a Scout - At 






Wounded in the Battle & 

rescued by Elk Nation 

1887 Participated in the Reno and 

Custer actions and made a 

drawing of the Battle 

Mountain, 952-953; Marquis, 


Liddic, I Buried Custer, 195 


Cheyenne Memories, 191 & 205; 



Marquis, Keep the Last Bullet for 

Yourself, 157 


Ledger, 162 


Surrendered, 9, 43 & G; 


Bibliography) 

Graham, Custer Myth, 109-110 & 

120 



Mountain, 1005 & 1046 


Ledger, 162 


Ledger, 162 



Liberty, notes from John Stands 

In Timber, 65 


163-174; Michno, Mystery of E 

Troop, 89 


Ledger, 157 



Marquis, Wooden Leg, 268-269 



254 & 263 


Ledger, 161 


Ledger, 156 

Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 94- 

95; Miller, Custer’s Fall, 135 


Ledger, 162; Brizee-Brown, For 

All to See, 156-157; Powers, The

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Little Bird Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Boy Oglala 

Lakota 

Little Buck Elk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Little Buffalo Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Little Bull Oglala 

Lakota 

Little Chief Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Coyote Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Creek Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Crow Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Little Gun Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Hawk Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 



Killing of Crazy Horse, 443 

Shot in thigh in valley fight Marquis, Wooden Leg, 238 



Said Indians were "thick as 

bees" in fight 

Struck soldier with his bridle 

and took his horse 



1906 Fishing in the LBH with White 

Shield not far from Ash Creek 

(Reno Creek) 

Leader of 45 Warriors in the 

Battle 

Little Chief in Crazy Dog 


Caught Custer's horse - 

Scalped Lame White Man by 

mistake 


Ledger, 162 





Custer Fight , 145 


Ledger, 162 



401 


38 






33; Miller, Custer's Fall, 152 

Little Dog Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 


Little Eagle Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 


188 

Little Hawk Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Horse Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Horse Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Little Killer Oglala 

Lakota 

Little Knife Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

1898 In photo at Custer Battlefield of 

12 veterans of the Battle – 

Born 1835 

In valley fight & drank some 

captured soldier whiskey - 

Living 1908 

Little Warrior Chief in the Kit 

Fox Warrior Society & wore a 

war bonnet in the Battle 

Had 2 fingers shot off his left 

hand during the Battle 

1939 Born 1848 - Guest of honor at 

a Hot Springs SD celebration 

July 14, 1936, as a veteran of 

the Custer massacre 

Said Reno’s retreating soldiers 

fired wildly and were 

inaccurate 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 92; Sandoz, 

Crazy Horse, 328; Buecker, 

Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, 

162; Dickson, “Big Road Roster”, 







Hardorff, Hokahey, 92; Sprague, 

Pine Ridge Reservation, 42 

“3 Indian Vets of Custer 

Massacre to be Honored”, 

Chicago Daily News, (July 14, 

1936); Hinman, Oglala Sources, 

42; Hardorff, Surrender and 

Death of Crazy Horse, 120; 





53 

Little Moon Hunkpapa At LBHB Semi-Centennial Ostrander, Semi-Centennial, 25;

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Little Prick Oglala 

Lakota 

Little Robe Southern 

Cheyenne 

Little Shield Southern 

Cheyenne 

Little Skunk Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Little Soldier, 

Eugene 


Death 


Lakota 1926 – On 1929 Standing 

Rock Agency list of Indian 

survivors of the Custer fight 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Little Sun Northern 

Cheyenne 

Little Voice Hona Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Little Warrior Oglala 

Lakota 

Little 

Whiteman 

Little Wolf Chief Little 

Wolf 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Little Wolf Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Little Wound Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Living Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Loafer Oglala 

Lakota 

Lone Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Lone Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Lone Dog Sans Arc 

Lakota 




Dog Soldier Warrior - Fought 


Wore a war bonnet in the 

Battle, later was a camp guard 

Among the Warriors on Last 

Stand Hill at the end of the 

Battle 

1928 Born 1863 - Fought with 

Arrows against Reno 

Fought in valley - Chased 3 

soldiers along south bank of 

river - At LBHB Semi- 



History, 180 


Ledger, 161 







www.theautry.org (See LBH 

Bibliography); Donahue, Drawing 

Battle Lines, 235 





Brother of Deeds Hardorff, Indian views of the 

Custer Fight, 138 & 182-183; 


One of 6 Warriors of the Battle 

who had a reunion in the Black 

Hills Sept 2, 1948 – Lived to 

age 80 

Bailey, Journey of Visions, 106; 

Stewart, Custer's Luck, 145fp; 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 92; Abrams, 

Newspaper Chronicle of the 

Indian Wars Vol. 15, 262 

1931 Living at Lame Deer 1921 Taylor, With Custer on the LBH, 

188; Schwartz, The Last 

Contrary, 26 

1904 Born 1821 - Trailed the 

soldiers to LBH and arrived 

after 1st days fighting ended - 

Bestowed his name to his 

nephew 

June 25, 

1876 

Fought with Crazy Horse 

during the Battle 

Slipped away from the Indian 

camp & surrendered with Kill 

Eagle 





Said 6 Cheyennes were killed 

and were buried in the hills 

west of the LBH 

Born about 1847 - Thought the 

Custer fight lasted 4 hours 


the Custer Fight, 86, 89 & 92; 



357 


Sioux, 132 

Wengert, The Custer Dispatches; 

The Words of the NY Harold 

Correspondents, 365-366 & 371; 

Robinson lll, A Good Year to Die, 

281 


Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 161 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 148; Maine, 

Lone Eagle, 132 


Michno, Mystery of E Troop, 91 

Killed fighting Custer's column Graham, Custer Myth, 97; 

Hardorff, Lakota Recollections,

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 


Death 


Lone Eagle Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Lone Elk Oglala 

Lakota 

Lone Horn Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Lone Man One Man Oglala 

Lakota 


Said 9 of the fleeing troopers 

were mounted 




114; Buecker, Crazy Horse 


Headman Hardorff, Camp, Custer and the 

LBH, 89 & 91 

1934 Born 1850 - Saw a Lakota in a 

gully whose body was 

mistakenly mutilated by 

Indians 

Lone Wolf Lakota 1879 One of the lesser Chiefs and 

Headmen at the Battle 

Lone Wolf Cheyenne Visited the battlefield with 



Long Bull Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Long 

Commander 

Fast Eagle Oglala 

Lakota 

Long Dog Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Long Elk Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Long Elk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Long Feather Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Long Handle Oglala 

Lakota 

Long Horn Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Long Name Oglala 

Lakota 

Long Roach Northern 

Cheyenne 

Long Road Eagle Hat Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Long Tree Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Long Turd Oglala 

Lakota 

Long Visitor Oglala 

Lakota 

June 26, 

1876 

His tipi was in the area near 

Sitting Bull at LBH 

Counted 4 Coups & captured 5 

cavalry mounts 

Fought Custer's column – 

Raced across soldier’s line to 

show he was bulletproof 

Wounded fighting Custer's 

column 

One of the first to receive a 

gunshot wound, in the valley 

fight 

Identified in a picture as one 

who took part in the Custer 

Battle 



Chief of Holy Band of 

Hunkpapas 



Father of Closed Hand, suicide 

Warrior 

Killed counting Coup on soldier 

near Benteen's line 



Holy man for Crazy Horse at 

the Little Bighorn Battle 




LBH, 88; Dickson, “Big Road 

Roster”, CBHMA Symposium 

2007, 53 


181; Shields, LBH Tiospaye, 98 




Remembered, 62-63; Vestal, 

Sitting Bull, 156 




Sioux, 136-137; Vestal, Sitting 

Bull, 52-53 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 62-63; 

Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 90 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 39-40, 54 & 




Sioux Camp, picture/caption; 


99; Sprague, Pine Ridge 



Ledger, 159 




Ledger, 158 




122; Hardorff, Hokahey, 87-89 




218, 222 & 433; Hardorff, 

Surrender and Death of Crazy 

Horse, 85 


Ledger, 163

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Long Wolf Oglala 

Lakota 

Looking Elk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Looking Elk Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Looks Like A 

Dog 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Looks White Oglala 

Lakota 

Looks Yellow Oglala 

Lakota 

Lost Leg Northern 

Cheyenne 

Low Dog Oglala 

Lakota 

Low Dog Northern 

Cheyenne 

Mad Wolf Wolf That 

Has No 

Sense 


Cheyenne 

Magpie Southern 

Cheyenne 

Magpie Oglala 

Lakota 

Magpie Eagle Northern 

Cheyenne 

Makes Enemy Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 

June 11, 

1892 



In many fights including LBH – 

Died in London, age 59, while 

touring with Buffalo Bill’s Wild 

West and buried in West 

Brompton Cemetery – His 

Remains were repatriated to 

Pine Ridge SD 1999 

Refused to take Good Bear 

Boy off the field while under 

fire 

Born 1846 - Put Cannonball 

Woman on a horse to escape 

the soldiers 







Returned to the battlefield 

days later looking for horses, 

odor was so strong they could 

not get close 

1894 Born 1846 - Chief - Fought in 

valley, Reno Hill & Custer 

Ridge - Said 38 Indians were 

Killed 

He and Yellow Nose were the 

first Cheyennes to cross the 

river and face Custer’s men 

1905 Born 1825 - A Dog Soldier - 

Wore a war bonnet in fighting 


Wounded twice in the 

Rosebud Fight, then a few 

days later was in the LBH fight 

Dashed into camp with horses 

shouting, "Get away as fast as 

you can…white men are 

charging!" 

Council Chief – After leaving 

the Rosebud Fight, camped at 

the forks of Reno Creek, 

scouts reported soldiers were 

near, then hurried to the LBH 

1928 Born 1857 - At LBHB Semi- 


Maddra, Hostiles? The Lakota 

Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s 

Wild West, 160-161 & 256-257; 

le Vay, Eccentric London, 169 






Ledger, 164 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 159 





the Custer Fight, 170; Hardorff, 

Surrender and Death of Crazy 

Horse, 86; Dickson, “Big Road 

Roster”, CBHMA Symposium 

2007, 49 

Powell, Sweet Medicine, 115-116 

& 414 


the Custer Fight, 52; Marquis, 



Mountain, 1006 & 1040 


81 


Mountain, 957, 1006, 1009 & 

1043; Michno, Lakota Noon, 30 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 92; 





Makes Room They Make Minnikojou 1905 Chief - Father of White Bull Hardorff, Lakota Recollections,

Name 

Makes 

Widows Cry 

Also Known 

As 

Room For 

Him 

Band and 

Tribe 


Death 



Lakota 39 & 151; Vestal, New Sources 

of Indian History, 314 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Male Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 



Identified in a picture as one 

who took part in the Custer 

Battle - Sitting Bull’s 

bodyguard 

Man Bear Cheyenne Visited the battlefield with 



Man On Top Oglala 

Lakota 



Many Claws Lakota Said “Custer soldiers did a lot 

of bugling toward the end of 

the fight, 2 different calls had 

been repeated” 

Medicine Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Medicine Bird Oglala 

Lakota 

Medicine Bull Northern 

Cheyenne 

Medicine 

Cloud 

Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Medicine Wolf Red Horse Northern 

Cheyenne 

Melter Oglala 

Lakota 

Moccasin 

Hide 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Mosquito Northern 

Cheyenne 

Mountain Oglala 

Lakota 

Moves Camp Oglala 

Lakota 

Moving Robe 

Woman 

Mary Crawler Hunkpapa 

or She Walks Lakota 

With Her 

Shawl 

Neck Prick Oglala 

Lakota 

Said Custer was killed early in 

fight - At LBHB Semi- 




Warrior with Little Wolf, fought 

on the 2nd day of the Battle 




Ledger, 159 


Sioux Camp, picture/caption; 


History, 183 




Ledger, 160 

Day, “To the Colonel”, LBHA 

Newsletter, (June 1976), 10-12 


the Custer Fight, 141; Spear, 


Hammer, Custer in'76, 203; 






Surrendered with Crazy Horse Buecker, Crazy Horse Surrender 

Ledger, 156; Personal ref: 

Margot Liberty, Author/Historian, 

Sheridan WY 





Little Warrior Chief of the Kit 

Fox Warrior Society 



Left the Battle before the 

wounded were killed 

1936 Born 1854? - In valley & 

Custer fights after 

brother Deeds was Killed 



New Dog Lakota Rode back and forth in front of 

soldiers as they approached 

Medicine Tail Ford 

No Flesh Brule 

Lakota 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 158 





Ledger, 164 




91-96; Hardorff, Indian Views of 



Ledger, 160 


In Timber, 357 & 369 

Killed a standard bearer and Sandoz, Battle of the LBH, 128; 

took the banner from his hands Viola, Little Bighorn

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

No Neck Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

No Two Horns Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Noisy Arrow Northern 

Cheyenne 

Noisy Walking Left Hand or 

Thunder 

Walking 


Cheyenne 


Death 


1885 Surrendered at Fort Robinson, 

later joined Sitting Bull in 

Canada 

1942 Credited with several kills in 

the Battle - Living at Standing 

Rock Agency 1929 

June 25, 

1876 

Nose In Sight Oglala 

Lakota 

Ogallala Fire Lakota Jan 2, 

1916 

Old Oglala 

Lakota 

Old Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Old Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Old Bull Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Old Bull Northern 

Cheyenne 

Old Man 

Coyote 

Old Red War 

Bonnet 

Old Man Northern 

Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Old Wolf Northern 

Cheyenne 

One Brings 

Shit Far Away 

One Bull Henry Oscar 

One Bull 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 




Suicide Warrior - Died at Little 




Killed a soldier during the 

Battle, took his belt, and later 

covered it with beads 





Surrendered, 6; McLaughlin, My 

Friend the Indian, 39; Buecker, 

Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, 

161; Sprague, Pine Ridge 

Reservation, 49 & 70 


History, 180; Brizee-Brown, For 

All to See, 137; Milligan, Dakota 

Twilight, 170 


Ledger, 156 


Yourself, 160; Stands In Timber 

& Liberty, Cheyenne Memories, 

194 


Ledger, 163 

“Chief Ogallala Fire Dies By His 

Own Hand, The Atlanta 

Constitution, (Jan 10, 1916) 


Ledger, 163 

Old man Chief Powell, People of the Sacred 

Mountain, 1004; Marquis, 


Not Old Bear, the old man 

Chief - Shot a soldier trying to 

escape 

1949 Said Dog’s Back Bone was 

killed while yelling a warning to 

tribesman to exercise caution - 

Living at Standing Rock 

Agency 1929 

1890- 

1900 

June 23, 

1947 

Born 1815-1820 - Son, Old 

Bull, said his father Old Bull 


Warrior Chief of the Crazy Dog 




In a photo with the caption:: 

Shown here are some of the 

Cheyenne chiefs present at 

the Little Bighorn battle 



Born 1853 - Said soldiers 

running down from the ridge 

discarded carbines & used 

revolvers – Living at Standing 


Mountain, 1027; Grinnell, 

Fighting Cheyennes, 353 


History, 180; Hardorff, Indian 

Views of the Custer Fight, 121- 

122; Hardorff, Hokahey, 91 




In Timber, 337 

Marquis, Wooden Leg, 211-212; 




Mountain, 960 




Ledger, 157 




LBH, 87; Vestal, New Sources of

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

One Elk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

One Feather Oglala 

Lakota 

One Grass Oglala 

Lakota 

One Horn Minnikojou 

Lakota 

One Kills At 

Eight Steps 

Oglala 

Lakota 

One Teat Oglala 

Lakota 

One That 

Steals 

One Who 

Walks With 

The Stars 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Owl Bull Oglala 

Lakota 

Owl King, Joe Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Own Bobtail 

Horse 

Owns Arrow Oglala 

Lakota 

Owns Horn Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Painted 

Brown 

Paints Brown Oglala 

Lakota 

Painted Horse Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 

Pants Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Patrip, Joseph Lakota March 

1934 

Pawnee Northern 

Cheyenne 

Pemmican Oglala 

Lakota 



Rock Agency 1929 Indian History, 180 

1942 Said 8 of the soldiers escaping 

down from the hill were 

mounted – On 1929 Standing 




History, 180; Hardorff, Camp, 

Custer and the LBH, 69; Dyck, 

Brule: Sioux People of the 

Rosebud, ix-x; Miller, Indians 

Who Fought Custer * 

1941 Killed one of Custer’s troopers Miller, Custer’s Fall, 265; Miller, 





Ledger, 161 

Chief Howard, Warrior Who Killed 

Custer, 31 







Wife of Crow Dog - Killed 2 

soldiers in the water from the 

river bank 



1892 Born 1827 - Was in the Indian 

village at LBH - Father of 

Phillip Brown Wolf, Hard To 

Kill, and Joseph Brown Wolf 

Lakota One of 3 Lakota Scouts who 

saw Custer coming June 22 




Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 162 







Lakota, Eagle Butte SD; Dickson, 



109 


Ledger, 162 

Fought Custer's column Vestal, Warpath, 195 

Was one of the first Warriors to 

mount, fought Reno and 


Among Indians who left the 

battlefield and 12 days later 

involved in the Sibley fight 

Discovered Custer at the 

divide 

Fought in Battle and followed 

Sitting Bull to Canada 

Father of Little Wolf - Camp 

Guard 

Fought against Reno & Custer 

– Lived to age 85 

Nelson, Land of the Dakotahs, 

178 

Greene, Battles and Skirmishes, 

69; Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild 

West, 113; Sprague, Pine Ridge 



“Indian of Custer Battle Fame 

Dies”, Billings Gazette, (March 8, 

1934) 




Hardorff, Hokahey, 120; Miller, 


Pig Northern Little Warrior Chief of the Marquis, Wooden Leg, 211

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Pine Northern 

Cheyenne 

Pisses In The 

Horn 


Death 


Cheyenne Elkhorn Scraper Warrior 

Society 

Oglala 

Lakota 


Fought against Reno & Custer 

- At LBHB Semi-Centennial 

1926 



Plaited Hair Lakota With correspondent Clyde at 

the battlefield Aug 20, 1878 

with 3 other Lakota who were 


Plenty Bears Northern 

Cheyenne 

Plenty Crows Northern 

Cheyenne 

Plenty Dogs Oglala 

Lakota 



Society 


262-263; Ostrander, Semi- 

Centennial, 26; Spear, Bozeman 

Trail, 87 


Ledger, 158 

Hutchins, Army-Navy Journal of 

the Battle of the LBH, 195 




An Arikara captive Stands In Timber & Liberty, 




Plenty Holes Lakota Warrior, gave information 


Plenty Horses Brule 

Lakota 

Plenty Lice Many Lice Oglala 

Lakota 

Plenty of 

Buffalo Bull 

Meat 

Plenty Of 

Meat 

Plenty of 

Trouble 


Cheyenne 

Santee 

Dakota 

Plenty Shells Oglala 

Lakota 

Plum Man Northern 

Cheyenne 

Poor Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Poor Dog Oglala 

Lakota 

Porcupine Northern 

Cheyenne 

Powder Face Northern 

Cheyenne 

Powder Side Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 

Acted in the “Little Big Horn 

Battle” in Buffalo Bill’s Wild 

West Show and who actually 

had been in the LBH fight 


Ledger, 162 

Master, Shadows Fall Across the 

Little Horn, 30 

Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 

113; Paulson, Who’s Who 

Among the Sioux, 173 

Killed fighting Custer's column Maine, Lone Eagle, 32; Hardorff, 





Discovered Custer at the 

divide 



1876 In the Cheyenne village with 

his family - Father of Sun Bear 

& Two Feathers 





1929 Born 1847 - Son of White 

Shield - At LBHB Semi- 


Surrendered to Miles in 1877 - 


1926 

Wounded north of the 

entrenchments on Reno Hill 




___, Lilly Camp, 694 


Ledger, 159 



Wooden Leg, 95 & 96 


Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 162 


the Custer Fight, 49; Spear, 

Bozeman Trail, 87; Marquis, 

Cheyennes of Montana, 134-136; 




DeMallie, Sixth Grandfather, 192; 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 86

Name 

Pretends 

Eagle 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Pretty Legs Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 








Puffed Cheek Cheyenne At Powder River fight March 

17, 1876 - May have been at 


Pulls Out Oglala 

Lakota 

Pumpkin Hill Oglala 

Lakota 

Puts On His 

Shoes 

Rain-In-The- 

Face 

William Swan Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

May 24, 

1935 

Sept 14, 

1905 






Agency 1926 

Born 1836 - Died at Standing 

Rock ND 

Raised Him Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Rattlesnake 

Nose 


Cheyenne 

Rattling Hawk Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Arms Northern 

Cheyenne 

Red Bear George Red 

Bear 

Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Red Bird Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Red Bird Northern 

Cheyenne 

Red Cherries Northern 

Cheyenne 

Red Cloud Jack Red 

Cloud 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Crane Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Dog Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Face Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Red Feather Oglala 

Lakota 

1885 or 

1886 



Wounded at Rosebud fight, 

remained in LBH village 

watching the fight 

In the Cheyenne village with 

his family 

Sub Chief – Died in prison in 

Canada 


Agency 1926 

Son of Tangled Horn Elk – 

Sold gun to Marquis 

Born 1838 - One of 3 Scouts 

seen by Sgt Curtis at hardtack 

box - In hilltop fight June 26 

1928 Son of Chief Red Cloud - At 


June 25, 

1876 



Told Crook in 1877, there were 

1800 lodges at LBH 



153 


Ledger, 157 

Greene, Lakota and Cheyenne, 6 


Ledger, 163 


Ledger, 160 


Sprague, Cheyenne River Sioux, 

104; Personal ref: Bruce Brown 

Wolf, Lakota, Eagle Butte SD 


48; Graham, Custer Myth, 96 






& 184 




Surrendered, 9, E & G 




Ledger, 156; Personal ref: 

Margot Liberty, Author/Historian, 

Sheridan WY 


Mountain, 1032 & 1425 






Ledger, 158 






Fought in valley & made 

charge on Calhoun Hill 


81-88

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Red Fish Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Fox Rattles Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Red Fox Northern 

Cheyenne 

Red Hail Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Red Hawk Austin Red 

Hawk 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Hill Brule 

Lakota 

Red Horn Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Red Horn 

Buffalo 

Red Horn 

Buffalo 

Red Horn 

Bull 

Red Horse George Red 

Horse 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 


Death 



A prominent and highly 

respected Chief 



Lamedeer, Lame Deer, 26; 

Shields, LBH Tiospaye, 85; 




39 

On Custer Hill after the Battle Miller, Custer's Fall, 173 

Warrior “Indian Fingerprint Index Given 

State”, The Bismarck Tribune, 

(Oct. 11, 1930); Dickson, Sitting 

Bull Surrender Census, 233 & 

323 

Born 1854 - Gave an account 

of the Battle, with a map, to 

Nickolas Ruleau – Fought 

Reno in the valley – Saw other 

soldiers coming down the 

ridges across the river - At 


1920 Left the reservation, joined the 

Brules in the Battle 

Chief of Sore Back Band of 

Hunkpapas 

Wounded charging soldiers 

trying to escape Custer Hill 

1920 Wounded in the jaw pursuing 

Reno's troopers 

Warrior Chief - Said the 

soldiers of Custer’s column 

made 5 brave stands 

Red Nose Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


Red Owl Northern 

Cheyenne 

Red Owl Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Paint, 

Roger 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Robe Northern 

Cheyenne 

Red Rock Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Shirt Oglala 

Lakota 

Red Tail Oglala 

Lakota 




1926 

Counted 4 Coups, took 2 

scalps, an army carbine & 3 

cavalry horses 

Father of Roman Nose, suicide 

boy 



One of four survivors of the 

Battle living at Pine Ridge 

Agency, who was asked to 

attend the 75 th Anniversary 





169-174; Buecker, Crazy Horse 

Surrender Ledger, 165; Curtis, 

North American Indian Vol. 3, 

188 


Sioux, 191 





Hardorff, Hokahey, 74; Sandoz, 

Battle of the LBH, 80 


Michno, Lakota Noon, 188-189; 



Ledger, 165 











Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 164; “Indian Survivors of 

Custer Fight to Attend 

Anniversary Observance”, news 

clipping dateline Helena MT, 

(May 27, 1951) 


Ledger, 159

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Rider Oglala 

Lakota 

Rising Fire Northern 

Cheyenne 

Rising Sun Northern 

Cheyenne 

Roan Bear White Man 

Bear 

Robe Hair 

Outside 


Cheyenne 

Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 





One of the first to fire on 



Ledger, 160 

Riebeth, J H Sharp Among the 

Crow Indians, 25; Hardorff, 

Cheyenne Memories of the 


1952 Took Watch from soldier Miller, Custer's Fall, 173; Viola, 

Little Bighorn Remembered, 40 

Fought Custer at Medicine Tail 

Ford - Warrior of the Fox 




Rock, Sam Lakota Declared that Crazy Horse not 

Sitting Bull was the 

commanding Chief against 

Custer – Living at Standing 

Rock 1927 

Rocky Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Warrior - Said Sitting Bull was 

a big medicine man 

Rolling Bull Lakota With correspondent Clyde at 

the battlefield Aug 20, 1878 

with 3 other Lakota who were 


Roman Nose Hump or 

Hump Nose 


Cheyenne 

Roman Nose Southern 

Cheyenne 

Roman Nose Minnikojou 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 

Killed on West bank of river 

during Reno's retreat 

Dog Soldier Warrior – Fought 


Round Fool Lakota Spotted soldier hiding in 

bushes below Reno Hill June 

26 who then was killed 

Roundstone Lewis 

Roundstone 


Cheyenne 

Runner Oglala 

Lakota 

Running 

Eagle 

Runs Close 

To Camp 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Runs Fearless Oglala 

Lakota 

Runs In The 

Center 

Oglala 

Lakota 



the Custer Fight, 50 & 142; 




Ledger, 160 

“Custer Fell Early in Fight, 

Plainsmen Say at Reunion, 

Criticizing Last Stand Picture, 

New York Times, (June 19, 

1927) 


the Indian Wars Vol. 15, 88-89; 

Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 

113; Price, Oglala People, 191 

Hutchins, Army-Navy Journal of 

the Battle of the LBH, 195 




Sub Chief Graham, Custer Myth, 61; ___, 

Lilly Camp, 675 



188 



1899 Born 1842 - Killed the Arikara 

Scout Bob Tail Bull 

Aug 2, 

1876 



May have counted Coup on 

Arikara Scout Bobtail Bull 

Black Elk’s older brother – 

Black Elk rushed to give him 2 

pistols that would be helpful 


Ledger, 159 


103; Blish, Pictographic History 

of the Oglala Sioux, 246; 




Ledger, 163 

Blish, A Pictographic History of 

the Oglala Sioux, 246; Bray, 

Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, 241 

Steltenkamp, Nicholas Black Elk, 

36

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Runs On Top Oglala 

Lakota 

Runs The 

Enemy 

Two Kettle 

Lakota 


Death 

Saddle Oglala 

Lakota 

Sand Crane Northern 

Cheyenne 

Sandstone Northern 

Cheyenne 

Save-Himself Lakota June 25, 

1876 

Scabbard 

Knife 

Scabby Northern 

Cheyenne 

Scabby Eyelid Northern 

Cheyenne 

Scabby Face Oglala 

Lakota 

Scabby Place Oglala 

Lakota 

Scar Leg Minnikojou 

Lakota 



against oncoming soldiers 



Age 15 at Battle - He and 

others pressured Reno's left in 

the valley fight - Living 1926 



Swimming in the river when he 

heard shots 

Fought in the Battle from 

Wooden Leg Hill 

On Kicking Bear’s casualty 

roster and Pictograph 

Lakota Warrior, gave information 


Nov 

1876 

Fought Reno & rode horse 

across in front of soldiers 5 

times, was not hit 







Fought on Custer Hill - Living 

at Cheyenne River Agency 

1926 

Scared Eagle Lakota 1 of 17 Chiefs with Capt Howe 



Scaring Bear Oglala 

Lakota 




Ledger, 160 


26 & 209; Craige, letter to 

Shoemaker; Gray, Centennial 

Campaign, 337; Hardorff, 

Hokahey, 55, 127 &154 


Ledger, 159 

Schwartz, The Last Contrary, 22 


the Custer Fight, 172 

Stewart, “ Kicking Bear’s 

Pictograph”, The Field Diary of 

Lt. Edward Settle Godfrey, 57-58 


the Little Horn, 30 


Mountain, 1013; Hook, Warriors 



335 


Ledger, 159 


Ledger, 159 


Personal ref: Harley L. Zephier, 

grandson, Thunder Butte SD 



Ledger, 162 

Scarlet Bear Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 

Scarlet Eagle Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 

Scarlet 

Thunder 

Sees The Cow Oglala 

Lakota 

Shadow 

Comes In 

Sight 

Shave Elk Thomas 

Disputed 

Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 


Cheyenne 

Oglala 

Lakota 





Crazy Horse 

We did not suspect we were 

fighting Custer - A member of 

Big Roads' Oglala Band 

Shave Head Cheyenne Warrior – Gave the saddle he 

used in the Battle to Jim 

Gatchell 


Ledger, 161; Hardorff, Indian 





Liddic, Camp on Custer, 121-127 

Bollinger, Jim Gatchell: The Man 

and the Museum, 39 & 67; 


Ledger, 165

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

She Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Shell Northern 

Cheyenne 


Death 



Warrior (not Old She Bear, 

Sans Arc Lakota, killed in the 

fight with Crook) 

American Horse’s brother - 

Captured U S canteens at the 

Battle and later used them to 

carry water 

Liberty, Notes from John Stands 



In Timber, 303 & 448 

Shell 

Lakota Living at Cheyenne River Craige, letter to Shoemaker 

Necklace 

Agency 1926 

Shell-Ear-Ring Lakota Counted Coup on 2 soldiers Vestal, Sitting Bull, 173 

Shield Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


Shits On His 

Hand 

Shits On The 

Eagle 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Shoot Holy Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Shoot 

Walking, Noah 

Shoots Bear 

As He Runs 

Shoots 

Walking 

H. W. Shoots 

Walking 






Fort Yates in the 1920’s 


Ledger, 156 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 161 

Burdick, Last Battle of the Sioux 

Nation, 153; 



Lakota Warrior “Indian Fingerprint Index Given 


(Oct. 11, 1930) 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Short Oglala 

Lakota 

Short Brule Oglala 

Lakota 

Short Bull Short Buffalo Oglala 

Lakota 

Shot At, 

Samuel 

Shot In The 

Eye 

1879 Fought Custer's column – 

Killed by Crows on a horse 

stealing expedition 

Reported Custer's soldiers 

acted erratic or drunk - At 


Aug 20, 

1935 





Born 1851 - In valley fight – 

Killed in an automobile wreck 

Blue Cloud Lakota At LBHB Semi-Centennial 

1926 

White 

Mountain 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Side Rib Oglala 

Lakota 

Silas Blind Oglala 

Lakota 

Singing Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

1917 Had stopped fighting when a 

ball hit his eye, dazed he 

entered the Battle again 




1926 




Warpath, 195; Hardorff, Indian 




86 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 162 

Michno, Lakota Noon, 97-98; 

Military pension file, National 

Archives; Dickson, Sitting Bull 

Surrender Census, 145 



Custer’s Last Battle, 186 


Reservation, 37; Donahue, 

Drawing Battle Lines, 162-167; 

www.siris.si.edu (See LBH 

Bibliography); Annuity Rolls Pine 

Ridge Reservation, National 

Archives 


Ledger, 162 




Ledger, 161

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 


Death 

Singing Prick Oglala 

Lakota 

Sioux Jim Lakota Aug 29, 

1876 

Sits Beside 

His Medicine 

Sits In The 

Night 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Sits Up Above Oglala 

Lakota 

Sitting Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Sitting Bull Buffalo Bull 

Sitting Down 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Sitting Bull Southern 

Cheyenne 

Sitting Bull, 

John 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Sitting Eagle Northern 

Cheyenne 

Sitting Elk Oglala 

Lakota 

Sitting Hawk Oglala 

Lakota 

Sitting Horse Oglala 

Lakota 

Sitting White 

Cow 

Dec 15, 

1890 





Fought in Battle then tried to 

slip into Red Cloud Agency 

without surrendering his 

weapon 



In a photo with the caption: 

Shown here are some of the 

Cheyenne chiefs present at 

the Little Bighorn battle 





Medicine Man – Vision of 

soldiers falling into camp – 

Fled to Canada after the LBH 


Ledger, 164 

Willert, March of the Columns, 

485 







Ledger, 161 


Ledger, 161 



Dog Soldier Schoenberger, End of Custer, 

266 

1955 Step Son of Sitting Bull Stewart, Custer’s Luck, 145fp; 

Collins, Proud Survivors: Voices 


In Rosebud Fight – May have 




One of 12 veterans of the 

Battle in a photo by Brininstool 

- At LBHB Semi-Centennial 

1926 




Mountain, 996; DeMallie, Sixth 

Grandfather, 175 



Hardorff, Hokahey, 92; 




Ledger, 157 

Lakota Warrior “Indian Fingerprint Index Given 


(Oct. 11, 1930) 

Skirts Lakota Warrior Jensen, Voices of the American 


Skunk Guts Oglala 

Lakota 

Skunk Head Oglala 

Lakota 

Sleeping 

Rabbit 


Cheyenne 

Sleeps There Oglala 

Lakota 

Slow White 

Cow 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Snake Creek Oglala 

Lakota 





Fought in the Battle from 

Wooden Leg Hill 






Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 158 




Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 160 

Counted Coup on 2 soldiers Buecker, Crazy Horse Surrender 

Ledger, 163; Vestal, Sitting Bull,

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Snatch Loser Oglala 

Lakota 

Snatch 

Stealer 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Snow Bird Northern 

Cheyenne 


Death 









Snow Shell Lakota In the Battle according to 

Shout At 

Soft Prick Oglala 

Lakota 

Soldier Oglala 

Lakota 

Soldier Hawk Oglala 

Lakota 

Soldier Wolf Northern 

Cheyenne 

Sounds The 

Ground As He 

Walks 

Santee 

Dakota 

Spider, Mark Oglala 

Lakota 

Spotted 

Antelope 

Spotted Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Spotted 

Blackbird 





173 


Ledger, 163 


Ledger, 162 




Bear Nose, “Shout At”, 

Westerners Brand Book, 

Chicago, (March 1962), 7 


Ledger, 159 


Ledger, 161 

In valley fight Blish, A Pictographic History of 

the Oglala Sioux, 250 

17 years old at LBH - Killed a 

soldier whose carbine misfired 

twice – Living Northern 

Cheyenne Reservation 1898 

Had Custer’s horse – He and 

Tracking White Earth were 

twin sons of Inkpaduta – 

Fought Custer’s Column 

Gave an account of Crazy 

Horse and his preparations to 

meet the Custer Attack 

Lakota Claimed to have hit Custer 

with a tomahawk as he 

retreated from the river 


Cheyenne 

Spotted Eagle Two Eagle Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Spotted Eagle 

James 

Spotted Elk Big Foot Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Spotted Elk Northern 

Cheyenne 

Said Gray Earth Track 

(Sounds The Ground As He 

Walks) got Long Hair's horse 

Said if we could have seen 

where each bullet landed we 

might know who killed Custer 




Custer Fight, 51 & 157; Donovan, 

A Terrible Glory, 148 & 233; 


138 


the Little Horn, 41; Powers, The 

Killing of Crazy Horse, 308 & 315 



Hardorff, Battle Casualties ll, 180 


188; Stands In Timber & Liberty, 


1898 Prominent Leader & Chief Graham, Custer Myth, 96; 


Custer Fight, 127; Hardorff, 

Lakota Recollections, 38 & 151 


Agency 1926 

Dec 29, 

1890 

Born 1826 - Sub Chief - Killed 

at Wounded Knee 

Watched Cheyenne (suicide) 

boys dancing the night before 

the Battle – Fought in Battle 

from Wooden Leg Hill 



LBH, 91; Johansen, Native 

American Biography, 28-31; 


164 




the Custer Fight, 172

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Spotted Hand Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 





Spotted Hawk Lakota Said Custer was killed at the 

beginning of the Battle 

Spotted Horn 

Bull 

Spotted 

Rabbit 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Spotted Wolf Northern 

Cheyenne 

Spread(ed) 

Pine 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Spunker Oglala 

Lakota 

Squint Eyes Northern 

Cheyenne 

Standing Bear Brule 

Lakota 

Standing Bear Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Standing 

Black Bear 

Standing 

Buffalo 

Dec 15, 

1890 

Born 1836 - Warrior in the 

Battle - Later joined Buffalo 

Bill's Wild West Show 


Ledger, 160 

“Tribesmen”, Billings Gazette, 

(nd), picture/caption 

Michno, Lakota Noon, 23 & 304; 



Custer Fight, 90-91; Dickson, 


Fought Custer's column, his Hardorff, Hokahey, 140; Maine, 

horse was shot from under him Lone Eagle, 131 & 135; Michno, 

– Living at Cheyenne River Lakota Noon, 275; Miller, 

Agency 1926 

Custer’s Fall, 211; Craige, letter 

to Shoemaker 

He and White Elk captured a 

soldier’s six-shooter which 

they kept until they were old 

men 






1926 

1898 Found no honor in combating 

frightened weak victims as our 

adversaries in the Battle 

Born 1859 - Hit a soldier in the 

head with his pistol then killed 

him – Took a buckskin shirt 

from a dead man 

Lakota Claimed to have accompanied 

Deeds the morning of June 25 

Lakota June 25, 

1921 

Said Custer was among the 

last to die – Died at Fort 

Qu’Appelle 


Ledger, 156; Taylor, With Custer 

on the LBH, 180; Swanson, 

Custer, His Life and Times, 204 


Ledger, 164 


Ledger, 163 



57 & 87; Standing Bear, My 

People the Sioux, 82-83 

DeMallie, Sixth Grandfather, 184- 

189; Hardorff, Lakota 

Recollections, 57-60 & 67 




Standing Bull Lakota Gave an interesting account of Abrams, Newspaper Chronicle of 

the Battle in March 1925, while the Indian Wars Vol. 15, 195 


Standing 

Cloud 

Standing Elk Lakota Sept 19, 

1884 

Standing Elk Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Stands And 

Looks Back 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Stands First Oglala 

Lakota 

Warrior Collings & England, The 101 

Ranch, 168 

Died in Iowa while traveling 

with a circus in 1884 


Agency 1926 

1913 Fought against Custer and 

Reno – Said Custer’s men 

were brave and fought well 

Born about 1844 - Captured 

Custer's personal flag 




Sprague, Cheyenne River Sioux, 

73 

Dyck, Brule: Sioux People of the 

Rosebud, 130-131; Anderson, 

Sioux of the Rosebud, 278; 


Sioux, 229 


104; Curtis, North American 

Indian Vol. 3, 189

Name 

Stands 

Straddle 

Stands-Up- 

Rabbit 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Sans Arc 

Lakota 


Death 


1876 

Star Northern 

Cheyenne 

Starving Elk Northern 

Cheyenne 

Stinking Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

Stinking Tie Oglala 

Lakota 

Straight Head, 

Moses 

Strange Owl Northern 

Cheyenne 




Agency 1926 

On Kicking Bear’s casualty 

roster and Pictograph 


been at the LBH - Cousin of 

Wooden Leg 

Brother of Black Coyote – In 

Rosebud Fight – May have 


Saw a Warrior knocked down 

by the barrel of a soldier's gun 




Agency 1926 

Fought under Chief Old Man 

Coyote in the Battle 


173; Craige, letter to Shoemaker 

Stewart, “Kicking Bear’s 

Pictograph”, The Field Diary of 

Lt. Edward Settle Godfrey, 57-58 

Greene, Lakota and Cheyenne, 6 


Mountain, 995 

Herman, Memories of the Sioux, 

p 6; Stands In Timber & Liberty, 



Ledger, 164 




Strong Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 

Strong Fox Oglala 

Lakota 

Strong Left 

Hand 

Strongheart 

(Strong Heart) 

Struck By 

Crow 

Stumbling 

Bear 

Strong Left 

Arm 


Cheyenne 

Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Stump Horn Northern 

Cheyenne 

Sun Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Sweat Oglala 

Lakota 

Swift Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 




Warrior Society at the wiping 

out of Long Hair & his soldiers 


Ledger, 162 


Mountain, 1005 & 1036; Marquis, 





Bull Surrender Census, 211 & 

327 

Born 1847 - Fought in the 

Fetterman Massacre, 

Rosebud, and LBH Battles 

Said men & horses in Deep 

Ravine were mixed up 

together on top of one another 

Custer Battle veteran 

photographed by Marquis in 

1922 

Wounded in Reno fight & 

charge against Custer - Wore 

war bonnet - At LBHB Semi- 

Centennial in 1926 

White Bull identifies him as at 


Cardozo, Chiefs & Warriors, 84; 

Curtis, North American Indian 

Vol. 3, 189-190 

Schoenberger, End of Custer, 

191 


188; Liberty, A Northern 

Cheyenne Album, 7 & 259 






Killed fighting Reno’s column Hardorff, Hokahey, 41 & 57; 


110 & 122; Maine, Lone Eagle, 


Swift Bear Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 


Takes The Minnikojou Brother of Dog's Back Bone Hardorff, Hokahey, 91

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 


Death 


Horses Lakota and confirmed his death 

Tall Bull Oglala 

Lakota 

Tall Bull Jacob Tall 

Bull 


Cheyenne 

Tall Bull Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Tall Mandan Blackfeet 

Lakota 

Tall Sioux Long Sioux Northern 

Cheyenne 

Tall White 

Man 

Tangled Horn 

Elk 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Tanned Nuts Oglala 

Lakota 



1928 Born 1856 - Lost his horse in 

the Battle - Brother-In-Law to 

Lame White Man 

Dec 16, 

1876 





May have returned to the 

agency from LBH with 

Charging Bear – May have 


In sweat lodge when Reno 

attacked village 

1928 Little Warrior Chief of the 

Elkhorn Scrapers Warriors 

Society 


Ledger, 162 


the Custer Fight, 73-77; Greene, 

Lakota and Cheyenne, 52-53; 

Wolf Feathers, “We are the 

Ancestors of…”, Ft Phil 

Kearny/Bozeman Trail, 7 












Marquis, Custer on the LBH, 28 

Captured an army carbine Marquis, Cheyennes of Montana, 

39 




Ledger, 159 

Teal Duck Lakota Fled to Canada after the Battle Papandrea, They Never 

Surrendered, 9 

The Bud Oglala 

Lakota 

The Buggar Oglala 

Lakota 

The Bull Oglala 

Lakota 

The Chief Oglala 

Lakota 

The Hand Oglala 

Lakota 

The Hill Oglala 

Lakota 

The Last Oglala 

Lakota 

The Lights 

The Man Who 

Walks With 

His Dogs 

Oglala 

Lakota 

The Man 

Whose Breast 

is Dobbed 

With Mud 


















Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 161 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 164 

Lakota Fought alongside Kill Eagle Graham, Custer Myth, 48 


1876 

Killed in the fight, according to 

Kill Eagle 

Graham, Custer Myth, 48

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

The Rump Oglala 

Lakota 

The Shield Oglala 

Lakota 

The Whore Oglala 

Lakota 

Thick Face Oglala 

Lakota 

Thin Elk Brule 

Lakota 

Three Bears Two Bears Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Three Hawks Oglala 

Lakota 

Thunder Bear Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Thunder Hawk Brule 

Lakota 

Thunder Hawk Oglala 

Lakota 

Thunder Tail Oglala 

Lakota 

Ties His Hair Northern 

Cheyenne 

Tobacco Oglala 

Lakota 

Top Lodge Oglala 

Lakota 

Torn Belly Oglala 

Lakota 

Touch The 

Clouds 

Touches His 

Grub 

Tracking 

White Earth 

Tall Sioux Minnikojou 

Lakota 


Cheyenne 

Santee 

Dakota 

Tripe Northern 

Cheyenne 

Tripe Fold Oglala 

Lakota 

Turkey Legs Thomas 

Flying 

Turning Hawk Circling 

Hawk 


Cheyenne 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 


Death 

June 27, 

1876 

Sept 5, 

1905 












Ledger, 161 


Ledger, 163 


Ledger, 163 


Ledger, 162 

Warrior Lamedeer, Lame Deer, 26; 



Wounded in valley fight – Died Hardorff, Hokahey, 42; DeMallie, 

on Wood Louse Creek – Some Sixth Grandfather, 196 

sources say Minnikojou 




Ledger, 158 

In Reno and Custer fights Hardorff, Indian Views of the 


In village - Wounded in Battle 

of the Rosebud 



In Rosebud Fight – 












188 


Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 156; Bray, Crazy Horse: 

A Lakota Life, 211 


Ledger, 162 


Ledger, 161 


Ledger, 158 


Ledger, 158 

Born 1836 - Sub Chief Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

39; Johnson, Tribes of The 

Sioux, 20; Hardorff, Surrender 

and Death of Crazy Horse, 48 




Ledger, 156 

1876 He and Sounds The Ground Donovan, A Terrible Glory, 148, 

As He Walks were twin sons of 233 & 341; Beck, Inkpaduta: 

Inkpaduta - Fought Custer’s 

Column 

Dakota Leader, 138 





Fought in valley fight & 

charged inside timber - At 



Ledger, 156 


Ledger, 163 



Yourself, 157; Spear, Bozeman 

Trail, 87 

Said he killed 3 Indian Scouts Vestal, New Sources of Indian 

History, 180; Hardorff, Indian

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Turtle Rib Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Turtle Road Southern 

Cheyenne 


Death 



Born 1848 - Arrived at LBH 

June 24 - Killed a Ree 

(Arikara) 


contained 6 man & 6 women 

Twin Bear Lakota 1 of 17 Chiefs with Capt Howe 



Two Birds Northern 

Cheyenne 

Two Bulls Yanktonais 

Nakota 

Two Bulls Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Two Crows Southern 

Cheyenne 

Two Eagles Brule 

Lakota 

Two Face Oglala 

Lakota 

Two Feathers Northern 

Cheyenne 


146 


Hammer, Custer in '76, 201-202; 

Michno, Mystery of E Troop, 81 




Roberts, Custer’s Last Battle, 41 

With Little Wolf's Band Miller, Custer's Fall, 74; Miller, 


Said Custer's soldiers fought 

like boys, the men so tired and 

their rifles so poor 

Saw a woman searching the 

battlefield, at night, for the 

body of a loved one among all 

those terrible ghostly sights 


contained 6 man & 6 women 

Born 1858 - Said Custer's 

movements in 2 battalions 

down Medicine Tail & Nye- 

Cartwright Ridge 



With Beard, on foot, running & 

shooting – After the Battle 

they scavenged the battle site 

Two Lance Lakota Visited the battlefield with 



Two Moons Northern 

Cheyenne 

Two Strikes Knock Off 

Two 

Brule 

Lakota 

Undone Oglala 

Lakota 

1917 Born 1842 - Warrior Chief of 

The Fox Warrior Society - In 

valley, hilltop & Custer fights 

1915 Born 1819 - Killed 2 soldiers 

who were riding on one horse 



Useful Heart Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

Walking 

Medicine 

Walking White 

Man 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Walks In Mud Oglala 

Lakota 

Walks Last Northern 

Cheyenne 



With hunting party when LBH 

Battle began 



Pony killed on run past 

Custer's soldiers, he crawled 

away - At LBHB Semi- 


Milligan, “Two Bulls Story of the 

Custer Fight”, High Noon on the 

Greasy Grass * 





141-151; Michno, Mystery of E 

Troop, 88 


Ledger, 163 


Remembered, 44; Marquis, 





the Custer Fight, 95; Michno, 

Mystery of E Troop, 95 

Anderson, Sioux of the Rosebud, 

276-277; Johansen, Native 

American Biography, 399 


Ledger, 163 



Ledger, 156 




Ledger, 159 


Yourself, 158; Spear, Bozeman 

Trail, 87

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

War Shanty Oglala 

Lakota 

Warms His 

Blanket 

Warrior, 

Joseph 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Water Snake Oglala 

Lakota 

Water, Alex Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 








Agency 1926 




1926 

Waterman Arapahoe Accused of being a spy & 

entered the fight to show good 

faith 

Weasel Bear Northern 

Cheyenne 

Weazel Bear Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Well Knowing 

One 

Nov 25, 

1876 


Fox Warrior Society – Herding 

horsed toward the river when 

Reno attacked got his gun 

from his tepee and helped 

drive soldiers across the river 

Said "When the sun stood 

there (he pointed) the Long 

Hair came to kill me and my 

people" 

Green Grass Arapahoe Accused of being a spy and 


faith 

Whirling Oglala 

Lakota 

Whirlwind Little 

Whirlwind or 

Swift Cloud 


Cheyenne 

Whistler Oglala 

Lakota 

Whistler Oglala 

Lakota 

White Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

White Bear Oglala 

Lakota 

June 25, 

1876 

Said in a 1920 interview at 

Standing Rock that he was in 


Charged a war bonnet Indian, 

belonging to the soldiers, both 

fired, both fell dead 









White Beard Lakota Camp guard, gave his horse to 

a fleeing woman and child 

White Bird Northern 

Cheyenne 

White Body Northern 

Cheyenne 

Wounded in leg during Custer 

fight 

Wore a war bonnet in the 

Battle 

White Buffalo Lakota Historian of his tribe, listed 

Indians killed by Custer's 

troops 

White Buffalo 

Shaking Off 

The Dust 

Many Bullet 

Wounds 


Cheyenne 


Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 159 



Ledger, 159 




Hunt, I Fought With Custer, 215- 

217; Powell, “High Bull’s Victory 

Roster”, Montana Magazine of 

Western History, (Winter 1975), 

19 

Milligan, Dakota Twilight, 69 & 

169 



73 & 211 


268 


Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 163 


Ledger, 157 


Ledger, 159 






Father of Wooden Leg Michno, Lakota Noon, 35 & 143 

White Bull Ice or Ice Northern 1921 Born about 1834 – Warrior Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of

Name 

Also Known 

As 

White Bull Joseph 

White Bull or 

Lazy White 

Buffalo 

White Bull White Buffalo 

Bull 

Band and 

Tribe 


Death 


Bear Cheyenne Chief - Paraded around 

wearing guidon 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

July 21, 

1947 

June 25, 

1876 


Born 1850 - Fought in valley, 

Reno Hill & battle ridge - 

Wounded in ankle - Living at 

Standing Rock Agency 1929 

White Clay Cheyenne Surrendered with Crazy Horse 


White Cloud Oglala 

Lakota 

White Cow 

Bull 

White Cow 

Walking 

Oglala 

Lakota 

Oglala 

Lakota 

White Dress Oglala 

Lakota 

White Eagle Minnikojou 

Lakota 

White Eagle Santee 

Dakota 

White Elk Wandering 

Buffalo Bull 

White 

Eyebrows 


Cheyenne 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

White Face Oglala 

Lakota 

White Face 

Bear 

White Foot 

Print 

the Custer Fight, 37-40; Powell, 


1426; Michno, Lakota Noon, 302 



106-126; Vestal, Warpath, 203; 



Killed in valley fight Michno, Lakota Noon, 70 & 88; 

Hardorff, Hokahey, 43; Vestal, 

Warpath, 204; Hardorff, Lakota 

Recollections, 110 



1942 Sharpshooter who fired at 

Reno Hill & killed several 

soldiers 

June 25, 

1876 

Said when Custer appeared 

there was a call to wait, 

soldiers fired first – Living at 

Standing Rock Agency 1929 

Showed John Stands In 

Timber where a Lakota was 

killed in the valley fight 

Killed near the foot of Reno Hill 

– Some sources say Oglala 

Leader of 15-20 lodges at the 

southern end of the camp, 

according to Gall & Crazy 

Horse – listed as Yankton 

1914 Born about 1849 - Wore a war 

bonnet in the Battle and 

captured a cavalry horse 


Ledger, 156 


Ledger, 163 


Miller, Custer's Fall, 124-125; 





135 







135; Jensen, Voices of the 

American West Vol. 1, 311 


Cheyenne Memories, 208; Hook, 

Warriors LBH, 37; Marquis, 


Brother of Beautiful White Cow McLaughlin, My Friend the 

Indian, 43 



Lakota On 1929 Standing Rock 



Santee 

Dakota 

White Ghost Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

White Glass 

Eye 


Cheyenne 

White Hair Oglala 

Lakota 

With Inkpaduta’s Band – An 

uncle of Charles Eastman 


Ledger, 163 


History, 180 




Sub-Chief Hardorff, Indian Views of the 







Ledger, 156 


Ledger, 157

Name 

White Hair On 

Face 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Hunkpapa 

Lakota 


Death 



Age 20 at time of battle and 

fought on foot 

White Hawk Lakota Living at Cheyenne River 

Agency 1926 

White Hawk Northern 

Cheyenne 

White Hollow 

Horn 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 

White Horse Southern 

Cheyenne 

White Lodge Santee 

Dakota 

White Moon Northern 

Cheyenne 


Elkhorn Warrior Society, when 

Long Hair was wiped out 






Mountain, 1005 & 1035 


Custer, 31 

Dog Soldier - At LBHB Semi- 

Centennial in 1926 

Traveled from Manitoba with 

Inkpaduta to Sitting Bull’s 

camp, arrived April 1876 & 


Brother of Kate Bighead - At 


White Powder Cheyenne Visited the battlefield with 



White Rabbit Oglala 

Lakota 

White Shield Young Black 

Bird 


Cheyenne 

White Swan Paul Swan Minnikojou 

Lakota 

White Tail Oglala 

Lakota 

White 

Thunder, 

Daniel 

White 

Whiskers 

White Wolf Shot In The 

Head 

Yanktonais 

Nakota 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Wild Hog Northern 

Cheyenne 

Wild Horse Oglala 

Lakota 

With Horns Runs Against Minnikojou 

Lakota 

May 2, 

1918 

Sept 30, 

1900 

Retrieved a fine cavalry horse 

during the Battle - Went to 

Canada in 1877 and stayed 

Born about 1850 - Said the 

gray horse company held their 

horses to the last - Son of 

Spotted Wolf 



Donovan, A Terrible Glory, 85; 

Diedrich, Sitting Bull Speeches, 

75; Waggoner, letter to Herriott 

Marquis, Custer on the LBH, 

opposite page 36; Ostrander, 

Semi-Centennial, 26 




Bibliography); Buecker, Crazy 



the Custer Fight, 48-59; Grinnell, 

The Fighting Cheyennes, 352 


Custer, 31; Sprague, Cheyenne 

River Sioux, 30; Personal ref: 

Bruce Brown Wolf, Lakota, Eagle 

Butte SD 



Saw Custer’s men come down 

toward the river then turn back 



Crazy Horse 

Had a repeating rifle in the 

Battle – Said a lot of young 

men picked up silver & paper 

money after the Battle 


Elkhorn Warrior Society 


Ledger, 157 

Riggs, Sunset to Sunset, 92 & 

97; Powers, The Killing of Crazy 

Horse, 312 








Oglala Chief Kimmel, Custer, Cody and the 

Last Indian Wars, 151 

Fought Custer's column - 

Removed wounded White Bull 

from the Battlefield 

Vestal, Warpath, 72, 137 & 201

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Wolf Peter Wolf Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Wolf Chief Northern 

Cheyenne 

Wolf Medicine Northern 

Cheyenne 

Wolf Name William Wolf 

Name 


Cheyenne 

Wolf Tooth Northern 

Cheyenne 

Wolf Voice Gros 

Ventre 

Woman Bone Oglala 

Lakota 

Wood Boat Oglala 

Lakota 

Wood Pile Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Wood Root Oglala 

Lakota 

Wooden Knife Minnikojou 

Lakota 

Wooden Leg Eats From 

The Hand 

Wooden 

Thigh 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

Worm Oglala 

Lakota 

Wounded Eye Northern 

Cheyenne 

Wounded 

Hand 

Wounded 

Horse 

Wounded In 

Back 

Minnikojou 

Lakota 


Death 


1918 Fought with Crazy Horse in the 

Battle 


Gave Thomas Marquis 

important points about the 

Battle 

1930 Little Warrior Chief in the 

Elkhorn Scrapers Warrior 

Society - Wore a war bonnet in 



1926 

1907 Born 1820 - Fought Custer's 

column 

Married a Cheyenne woman - 

Said Curley could not have 

been in the fight. no one got 

away 





1911 Rode a fast buffalo horse in 




Warrior, gave information 


1940 Born 1858 - Warrior in the 

Elkhorn Scrapers Society - 

Age 18 at time of Battle - 

Camp guard & in the Battle 

Son of Little Wolf - Camp 

guard & in the Battle 

Personal ref; Ira Blue Coat, Sans 

Arc Lakota, Eagle Butte SD; 




the Custer Fight, 42 & 45 


244; Marquis, letter to 

Brininstool; Powell, People of the 





Powell, Sweet Medicine, 114- 

115; Liberty, notes from John 

Stands In Timber, 323 

Wagner, Old Neutriment, 209 & 


Sacred Mountain, 1137 & 1157 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 158 

Riggs, Sunset to Sunset, 143; 

Vestal, Warpath, 39 & 272 


Ledger, 161 

Masters, Shadows Fall across 

the Little Horn, 30; Powers, The 

Killing of Crazy Horse, 410 

Marquis, Wooden Leg, 208-271; 


Biography, 428; Michno, Mystery 

of E Troop, 103 



1881 Father of Crazy Horse Sandoz, Crazy Horse, 328; 

Hardorff, Surrender and Death of 

Crazy Horse, 56 

Captured U S canteens at the 

Battle and later used them to 

carry water 

One of the richest Indians with 

about 100 horses at the LBH 



Vestal, Sitting Bull, 159; Hardorff, 


163 

Lakota Fought for Sitting Bull during MacEwan, Sitting Bull; The Years 

the Battle, went to Canada and in Canada, 203 

stayed, according to his 

grandson 

Oglala 

Lakota 




Ledger, 164

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Wounded Lice Oglala 

Lakota 

Wrinkled Face Oglala 

Lakota 

Wrinkler Oglala 

Lakota 


Death 



On Scout with White Bull, 

Minnikojou, & encountered the 

Montana column 





Yellow Bears Lakota Wounded in the Battle – 

Turned in a U S Springfield 

when he surrendered at 

Cheyenne River Agency 

Yellow Bull Lakota In photo with 2 other Warriors 

who were at the LBH Battle 

Yellow Cloud Sans Arc 

Lakota 

Yellow Dog Northern 

Cheyenne 


123 


Ledger, 160 


Ledger, 157 

Lt Col F D Grant, report to R C 

Dunn, Sept 5, 1876 



A Sans Arc Chief Hardorff, Lakota Recollections, 

151 

In Rosebud and Custer 

Battles, indicated Cheyenne 

Warriors wore buffalo horn 

caps in the Battle 

Yellow Eagle Arapahoe Accused of being a spy & 


faith 

Yellow Eagle Northern 

Cheyenne 

On a scout, spotted Crook on 

the Rosebud and hurried back 

to warn the camp - May have 


Yellow Fly Arapahoe Accused of being a spy & 


faith 

Yellow Hair Northern 

Cheyenne 

Yellow Hawk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Yellow Horse Northern 

Cheyenne 

Yellow Horse Oglala 

Lakota 

Yellow Horse Southern 

Cheyenne 

Yellow Left Oglala 

Lakota 

Fought Reno & Custer - Older 

brother of Wooden Leg 

Vaughn, With Crook on the 

Rosebud, 44; Hunt, I Fought With 

Custer, 222 



24; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, 200 



291 




Bull Surrender Census, 56 & 332 

Camp guard & in the Battle Marquis, Wooden Leg, 257 

Said Reno and Custer should Jensen, Voices of the American 

have attacked simultaneously - West Vol. 2, 123-127; Hardorff, 

83 Indians were killed in the Hokahey, 125 

fight with Custer himself and 

others were dying from 

wounds for 3 weeks afterwards 

This aged Southerner visited 

the Sans Arc Camp, where the 

Lakota were accusing Little 

Wolf of being with the soldiers 



Yellow Nose Ute Born 1854 - Captured by the 

Cheyenne in 1858 - Fought 

Custer's column & captured a 

guidon 





Ledger, 158 





Yellow Robe Oglala Surrendered with Crazy Horse Buecker, Crazy Horse Surrender

Name 

Also Known 

As 

Band and 

Tribe 

Yellow Shirt Oglala 

Lakota 

Yellow Weasel Northern 

Cheyenne 

Yells At 

Daybreak 


Death 



Lakota - May have been at the LBH Ledger, 163 

Aug 2, 

1876 

Killed trying to steal corn from 

the steamer Far West on the 

Powder River Aug 2, 1876 – 

May have been at the Battle 


Greene, Yellowstone Command, 

34-35 & 244 

Captured a Bugle Miller, Custer's Fall, 174 

Rooster Lakota In Rosebud Fight - May have 


Young Bear Lakota June 25, 

1876 

Young Box 

Elder 


Cheyenne 

Young Eagle Callous Leg Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Young Hawk Hunkpapa 

Lakota 

Young Little 

Wolf 

Young Sitting 

Bull 

Laban Little 

Wolf or Red 

Bird 


Cheyenne 

Drumpacker Oglala 

Lakota 

Young Skunk Oglala 

Lakota 

Young Turkey 

Leg 

Young Two 

Moons 

John Two 

Moons 


Cheyenne 


Cheyenne 

* Pages are not numbered 


20 

Killed fighting Custer's column Maine, Lone Eagle, 132 

1876 Killed a few days after the 

Battle by a Sheep Eater in the 

Big Horn Mountains 

17 years old in the Custer fight 

– Fought on the side of 

Calhoun Hill – On Standing 




1926 – On 1929 Standing 



1927 Born 1850 - First saw Custer 

at Medicine Tail Coulee – 

Attended the Semi-Centennial 

1926 

Dec 16, 

1876 

June 25, 

1876 









130; Milligan, Dakota Twilight, 

170 



History, 180 


the Custer Fight, 89-92; Liberty, 

A Northern Cheyenne Album, 96; 




Yellowstone Command, 150 


121; Blish, A Pictographic History 

of the Oglala Sioux, 246; Maine, 

Lone Eagle, 132 

In the valley fight, charged in 

the timber 

Born 1855 - Said Indians were 

pretty well armed in the Battle 


Mountain, 1014 & 1427 

Maine, Lone Eagle, 132; 


the Custer Fight, 151-163

LBH Warriors - Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield

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