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A modern Dog Soldier headdress at a pow wow. The Dog Soldiers or Dog Men (Cheyenne: Hotamétaneo'o) are historically one of six Cheyenne military societies.Beginning in the late 1830s, this society evolved into a separate, militaristic band that played a dominant role in Cheyenne resistance to the westward expansion of the United States in the area of present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado ...
Five were for grown warriors, the sixth for boys. The military societies were called "Dog Soldiers" because of visions and dreams of dogs. The Koitsenko were known as the "Real Dogs." [3] All young boys were enrolled in the Rabbit Warrior Society, the sixth recognized warrior society. The other five could be joined as the boys grew up.
Dog Warrior Society (Hotamétaneo'o), [3] also known as Dog Men. This society was also called Dog Soldiers by the whites. The Dog Warrior Society was established by a directive given in a visionary dream after the prophet Sweet Medicine's departure. This society was originally found in both the Northern and the Southern Cheyenne.
Tall Bull (c. 1830 - July 11, 1869) (Hotóa'ôxháa'êstaestse) was a chief of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers. Of Cheyenne and Lakota parentage, like some of the other Dog Soldiers by that time, he identified as Cheyenne. [1] He was shot and killed in the Battle of Summit Springs in Colorado by Major Frank North, leader of the Pawnee Scouts. [2] [3]
He fought with the Dog Soldiers band of Cheyenne warriors after surviving the Sand Creek Massacre. Julia or Um-ah was born in 1847; she was named in English for Bent's oldest sister, [ 48 ] and married the French-Cheyenne merchant, rancher and interpreter Edmund Guerrier , whose father William Guerrier worked for Julia's father William Bent.
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Pawnee Killer and his braves, Harper's Weekly 1867. Pawnee Killer (born c. 1826) [1] was a leader of the Oglala. [2] He also led a band of mixed Sioux-Cheyenne Dog Soldiers during the US war against the Plains Indians.
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