Left to right, standing: Wooden Leg, Willis T. Rowland, Blue Hawk, Shoulderblade, Black Wolf (John); sitting, Little Wolf and Two Moon. Further identifications made by Ernest King, Northern Cheyenne on visit to NAA 5/20/75: 3rd from left, standing - Milton White Man. 4th from left, standing - Ben Shoulder Blade. 1st seated - Little Wolf (not young Little Wolf). -PJF
The photographer was at the Crow Agency only during the years 1897-1910; he took no Indian photographs after leaving the Crow Agency--information from John Fields (1967), grandson of the photographer.
The Little Wolf who died lateris Laban Little Wolf, nephew of the Old Little Wolf who lead the people north. Peter J. Powell. Dockstader, Great North American Indians, says Little Wolf died in 1904. PJF. This is Laban Little Wolf, nephew of Little Wolf the Sweet Medicine Chief. Peter J. Powell, 5/3/88.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.56294
Local Note:
Original (?) number 54, (penciled on reverse of original print).
University of Montana, Museum and Northwestern Historical Collection, copy negative number 54-577B.
Handwritten in pencil on reverse of original print, "Little Wolf, died 1905-6, aged 84, Northern Cheyenne fought against Custer."
University of Montana, Museum and Northwestern Historical Collection, copy negative number 54-577L.
Handwritten in pencil on reverse of original print, " 'Little Wolf' and his family, Northern Cheyenne, Little Wolf fought against Custer, died 1906, aged 84."
"The Wild Hog on the list of Casey's scouts was Bird Wild Hog, whose father was one of the headmen under Little Wolfand Dull Knife, leaders of the Northern Cheyenne break from Indian Territory in 1879. Mari Sandoz says (Cheyenne Autumn, XV) that the senior Wild Hog was a 'big broad man with a broad humerous face', and that the son was named Little or Young Hog.
Christian Barthlemess, in identifying a photograph he took of the son, wrote the name as "Hetch (Hedge) Hog." Casey Barthelmess remembers him as an unusually expert dancer, much admired by women. His discharge, dated at Fort Keogh May 15, 1891, said he born in Wyoming, was twenty-two years old, six feet tall, copper complexion, black hair and eyes, and by occupation when enlisted (September 18, 1890) a hunter.
Bird Wild Hog died August 31, 1940. His widow Lydia, daughter of old Little Wolf, was killed at Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1958 -- when she was ninety --by an automobile." pages 110-11, Frink & Barthelmess.
"The Wild Hog on the list of Casey's scouts was Bird Wild Hog, whose father was one of the headmen under Little Wolfand Dull Knife, leaders of the Northern Cheyenne break from Indian Territory in 1879. Mari Sandoz says (Cheyenne Autumn, XV) that the senior Wild Hog was a 'big broad man with a broad humerous face', and that the son was named Little or Young Hog.
Christian Barthlemess, in identifying a photograph he took of the son, wrote the name as "Hetch (Hedge) Hog." Casey Barthelmess remembers him as an unusually expert dancer, much admired by women. His discharge, dated at Fort Keogh May 15, 1891, said he born in Wyoming, was twenty-two years old, six feet tall, copper complexion, black hair and eyes, and by occupation when enlisted (September 18, 1890) a hunter.
Bird Wild Hog died August 31, 1940. His widow Lydia, daughter of old Little Wolf, was killed at Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1958 -- when she was ninety --by an automobile." pages 110-11, Frink & Barthelmess.
"Elk River, his name, which was also borne by a member of the Southern Cheyenne tribe, was the Cheyenne name for the Yellowstone. For years Elk River was a familiar and respected figure around Fort Keogh...Elk River was in Dull Knife's village when it was destroyed by Mackenzie 1n 1876...
John Stands-in-Timber in August, 1962, told Father Peter Powell:...'Elk River was old when he enlisted in the scouts [i.e. Casey's scouts] and was said to be nearly a hundred when he died, about 1908'...He first enlisted as a scout in 1879, in Montana, under Miles, after which he went to Indian Territory. He re-enlisted on returning north...
The book Horse Catcher by Mari Sandozis based upon the lives of this man and his counterpart among among the Southern Cheyennes." -- Photographer on an Army Mule, pages 109-110
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.56072
Local Note:
Erroneously labeled as Sioux on face of original print.
Elk River is also mentioned in Grinnell's The Cheyenne Indians II, and The Fighting Cheyennes.
"Left: Mrs Henry Little Coyote, first wife of Henry Little Coyote, Keeper of Is'siwun, the Sacred Buffalo Hat, from 1959 to 1065. She was the mother of Eugene Little Coyote, and the paternal grandmother of Joseph Little Coyote, now (1971) a member of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs' society and the Kit Fox Society of the same tribe. Right: Mrs Thomas (Bessie) Sioux. Cheyenne name: Appears Out of water Woman. She and Thomas Sioux had one natural daughter. Then they adopted Henry Sioux, who still resides (1971) at Lame Deer, Montana. Information from Josie One Bear Stands in Timber. Verified by Henry Sioux and Wesley Little White Man, Lame Deer."--identification obtained by Father Peter J. Powell, at Lame Deer, Montana, November, 1971.
"Left: Mrs Rock Roads, wife of the Keeper of Is'siwun, the Sacred Buffalo Hat. She was a Northern Cheyenne. Cheyenne Name: Wart Woman. Right: Black Bird Woman, wife of Red Eagle. Mother of Willis Red Eagle, still living (1971) at Ashland, Montana. Northern Cheyenne. Mrs Rock Roads identified by Josie One Bear Stands in Timber. Verified by Henry Sioux and Wesley Little White Man. Lame Deer, Montana. Black Bird Woman identified by Henry Sioux and Wesley Little White Man, Lame Deer."--identification obtained by Father Peter J. Powell, at Lame Deer, Montana, November, 1971.
