Little wolf

Oh-cum-ga-che , better known as Little Wolf , sometimes also Red Bird (* around 1820 in the Black Hills , South Dakota , † 1904 in the Lame Deer Reservation , Montana ), was a chief of the Himoweyuhkis ( Crooked Lances or Elk Horn Scrapers ), a warrior society of Cheyenne - Indians .

Little Wolf was a signatory to the Fort Laramie Treaty (November 6, 1868). In 1873 he visited Washington DC

He fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn .

On November 24, 1876, Colonel Randall Slidell McKenzie placed the escaped reservation - Cheyenne under Little Wolf, Dull Knife and Yellow Nose at Crazy Woman Creek ( Wyoming ) , and on September 30, 1878 US troops defeated the Cheyenne under Little Wolf on Sappa Creek ( Kansas ).

Little Wolf had two wives, one of whom was named Starving Elk .

This article is based on the article Little Wolf ( memento of July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the free encyclopedia Indianer Wiki ( memento of March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and is under Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 . A list of the authors was available in the Indian Wiki ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).

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SURNAME	Little wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oh-cum-ga-che; Red Bird
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American chief of the Himoweyuhkis (Crooked Lances or Elk Horn Scrapers), a warrior society of the Cheyenne Indians
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Black Hills , South Dakota
DATE OF DEATH	1904
Place of death	Lame Deer Conservation , Montana