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The two central institutions of traditional Cheyenne tribal governance are the Council of Forty-Four [2] and the military societies, 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 [3] or "Old Man" chiefs, known to have had previously served with distinction on the council. [2]
In folklore, the Michigan Dogman was a creature allegedly witnessed in 1887 in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.It was described as a seven-foot tall, blue-eyed, or amber-eyed bipedal canine-like animal with the torso of a man and a fearsome howl that sounds like a human scream.
The prophet Sweet Medicine (Motsé'eóeve) was said to designate the four original Cheyenne warrior societies (pl. Nótȧxévėstotȯtse, sing. Nótȧxévestȯtse), which had their own society songs (nótȧxénootȯtse) and were governed by a head man (nótȧxévėhoneve).
Last of the Dogmen is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Tab Murphy (in his feature directorial debut). It stars Tom Berenger , Barbara Hershey , Kurtwood Smith and Steve Reevis .
The Battle of Summit Springs, on July 11, 1869, was an armed conflict between elements of the United States Army under the command of Colonel Eugene A. Carr and a group of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers led by Tall Bull, who was killed during the engagement.
Dog Soldiers (1978), an alternative title for Who'll Stop the Rain, the film adaptation of Robert Stone's novel Dog Soldiers (1974); Dog Soldiers, a 2002 horror film; Last of the Dogmen (1995), a fictional film about the search for and discovery of an unknown band of Dog Soldiers from a tribe of Cheyenne Indians, who escaped the 1864 Sand Creek massacre and survived for more than a 100 years ...
The Koitsenko (Kiowa: Qkoie-Tsain-Gah, lit. ' 'Principal Dogs" or "Real Dogs' ') was a group of the ten greatest warriors of the Kiowa tribe as a whole, from all bands. One was Satank who died while being taken to trial for the Warren Wagon Train Raid.
Thunderheart is a 1992 American Neo-Western mystery film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by John Fusco.The film is a loosely based fictional portrayal of events relating to the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, [3] when followers of the American Indian Movement seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee in protest against federal government policy regarding Native Americans.