Little Wolf

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

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

He fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

On November 24, 1876 Colonel Randall Slidell McKenzie on Crazy Woman Creek ( Wyoming) who fled reserve Cheyenne at Little Wolf, Dull Knife and Yellow Nose and on September 30, 1878 U.S. troops defeated the Cheyenne at Little Wolf at Sappa Creek ( Kansas).

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

  • Native American chief
  • Born in the 19th century
  • Died in 1904
  • Man
Cheyenne people Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) Indian reservation
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