George Bent
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George Bent, also named Ho—my-ike in Cheyenne, was a Cheyenne-Anglo who became a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War and waged war against Americans as a Cheyenne warrior afterward. He w
George Bent and his first wife Magpie (Mo-he-by-vah), in 1867.
George Bent Oct/22/1916
Sand Creek massacre
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The Sand Creek massacre was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalr
George Bent
…who became a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War and waged war against Americans as a Cheyenne warrior afterward (particularly due to the Sand Creek Massacre perpretrated by the US Army, which he survived). He was the mixed-race son of Owl Woman, daughter of White Thunder (and Tall Woman), a Cheyenne chief…
A depiction of one scene at Sand Creek by witness Howling Wolf
Treaty of Fort Wise signatory Ó'kôhómôxháahketa of the Cheyenne, known as Little Wolf (more correctly translated as Little Coyote), photographed May 1868 at Ft Laramie
U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington.
A delegation of Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho chiefs in Denver, Colorado at Fort Weld on September 28, 1864. Black Kettle is second from left in the front row.