Ehyophsta (Cheyenne for "Yellow-Haired Woman") was a

Cheyenne The Cheyenne ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains. Their Cheyenne language belongs to the Algonquian language family. Today, the Cheyenne people are split into two federally recognized nations: the Southern Cheyenne, who are enroll ...

woman. She was the daughter of Stands-in-the-Timber who died in 1849, and she was the niece of Bad Faced Bull. She fought in the

Battle of Beecher Island The Battle of Beecher Island, also known as the Battle of Arikaree Fork, was an armed conflict between elements of the United States Army and several of the Plains Native American tribes in September 1868. Beecher Island, on the Arikaree Rive ...

in 1868, and also fought the

Shoshone The Shoshone or Shoshoni ( or ) are a Native American tribe with four large cultural/linguistic divisions: * Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming * Northern Shoshone: southern Idaho * Western Shoshone: Nevada, northern Utah * Goshute: western Utah, easter ...

that same year, where she counted coup against one enemy and killed another. She fought the Shoshone again in 1869. She was also a member of a

secret society A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence a ...

composed exclusively of Cheyenne women. She died in 1915. She is one of the women in the Heritage Floor of the famous feminist installation art work, ''

The Dinner Party ''The Dinner Party'' is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbolic history of women in civilization. There are 39 elaborate place settings on a triangul ...

'', by

Judy Chicago Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history ...

References

* Salmonson, Jessica Amanda (1991). ''The Encyclopedia of Amazons''. Paragon House. Page 78. * {{Cite book , publisher = Reader's Digest Association , isbn = 089577819X , last = Reader's Digest Association , title = Through Indian eyes: the untold story of Native American peoples , location = Pleasantville, N.Y , date = 1995 , url-access = registration , url = https://archive.org/details/throughindianeye00read Year of birth unknown 1915 deaths Cheyenne people Native American women in warfare Women in 19th-century warfare 19th-century Native American women 19th-century Native Americans 20th-century Native American women 20th-century Native Americans