The Rosebud and Little Bighorn battles proved the tribes’ military strength but ultimately contributed to tragic consequences for the victors. In 1876, the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people defended their sovereignty, their land, and their lives against the United States. Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, Bureau of American Ethnology, ms. According to the book We, The Northern Cheyenne People, the horse’s split ears indicates that it is a fast one. Her brother, Comes in Sight, wears a war bonnet. Buffalo Calf Road Woman wears an elk tooth dress. This drawing, from the Spotted Wolf-Yellow Nose Ledger, shows Buffalo Calf Road Woman rescuing her brother through a hail of bullets.
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