Two moons

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Two Moons portrait on an American Buffalo Nickel from 1935

Two Moons (* 1847 in what is now Montana ; † 1917 ), or Ishaynishus ( Cheyenne : Éše'he Ôhnéšesêstse ) (English for two moons ), was a Cheyenne chief . He was one of the military leaders who achieved victory at Little Bighorn against the US Army. He took part in several military clashes with the US Army.

Life

Two Moons was the son of Carries the Otter , a captured Arikaree who married a Cheyenne. Two Moons attained the rank of tribal leader and military leader. He fought against the US Army and took part in the battles of Rosebud against General Crook on June 17, 1876 in the Montana Territory . He also fought in the legendary Battle of Little Bighorn on June 26, 1876 and in that of Wolf Mountain (January 8, 1877). Here General Nelson A. Miles defeated the Indians, who surrendered at Fort Keogh in April 1877 . After his defeat, Two Moons decided to serve the former enemy. He became a United States Army Indian Scout and served under General Miles. Miles respected him and made him head of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (near Ashland, Montana ). In this role he served as a politician and representative of this reservation .

Northern Cheyenne Reservation

Two Moons traveled to Washington, DC several times to campaign for the rights of his people, the northern Cheyenne, and to improve the poor conditions on the reservations. In 1914, Two Moons met President Woodrow Wilson .

Two Moons was the model for one of James Earle Fraser's Buffalo Nickel.

death

Two Moons died in his Montana home in 1917 at the age of 70. His grave is off US Route 212 , west of Busby, Montana .

literature

  • Time Life Books. (1993). The Wild West. Time Life Books.
  • Richard G. Hardorff, Cheyenne memories of the Custer fight , University of Nebraska Press, 1998 ISBN 0-8032-7311-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cheyenne Dictionary  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Fisher, Leman, Pine, Sanchez.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cdkc.edu  
  2. ^ Curtis, E. (1907) The North American Indian. Vol.6 The Piegan, the Cheyenne and the Arapaho . .
  3. ^ Hardorff, Richard G. Indian Views of the Custer Fight. University of Oklahoma Press 2005, p. 107
  4. ↑ Garland, Hamlin. Account of The Battle at Little Bighorn (Recalled in 1898 by Two Moons). McClure's Magazine , 1898
  5. ^ Q. David Bowers : A Guide Book of Buffalo and Jefferson Nickels . Whitman Publishing, Atlanta, Ga. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7948-2008-4 , pp. 38-39.
  6. ↑ Hatch, Thom. The Custer Companion. Stackpole Books 2002, pp. 221, 222
personal data
SURNAME Two moons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ishaynishus; Ôhnéšesêstse, Éše'he; Two moons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cheyenne chief and one of the military leaders
DATE OF BIRTH 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Montana
DATE OF DEATH 1917