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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.
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.
James Young Deer was a Nanticoke (Native American) film director involved in over 150 Native-themed silent films. In 1908, D.W. Griffith released The Red Man and the Child . The film featured a sympathetic depiction of Native American characters; however, critics describe their portrayal as a "helpless Indian race...forced to recede before the ...
Distraught but skillful bounty hunter Lewis Gates is accompanied by his horse and faithful companion Zip, an Australian cattle dog.Gates tracks three armed escaped convicts into Montana's isolated Oxbow Quadrangle, at the persistence of his unforgiving ex-father-in-law, who blames Gates for his daughter's tragic death.
American Indian Wars films (2 C, 28 P) Pages in category "Films about Native Americans" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 254 total.
In Kevin Costner’s first installment of his four-part epic Horizon: An American Saga, bands of settlers head west in search of a so-called promised land, where they can park their wagons and set ...
The Council of Forty-four is one of the two central institutions of traditional Cheyenne Native American tribal governance, the other being the military societies such as the Dog Soldiers. The Council of Forty-four is the council of chiefs, comprising four chiefs from each of the ten Cheyenne bands plus four principal [ 1 ] or "Old Man" chiefs ...