Red Horse was a sub-chief of the

Miniconjou The Miniconjou (Lakota: Mnikowoju, Hokwoju – ‘Plants by the Water’) are a Native American people constituting a subdivision of the Lakota people, who formerly inhabited an area in western present-day South Dakota from the Black Hills i ...

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"Red Horse 1822-1907,"
Frank's Realm, www.franksrealm.com/ He fought in the 1876

Battle of the Little Bighorn The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Nor ...

, and in 1881 he gave one of the few detailed accountings of the event. He also drew

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of the Little Bighorn Battle.LBH Forum
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Ledger drawings

Red Horse drew 42 ledger book drawings illustrating the Battle of Little Big Horn. The drawings are held in the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives, and a selection has been exhibited at the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University in the exhibition, ''Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn''. The drawings were commissioned by Charles E. McChesney, an Army doctor. The drawings were made in 1881. They were drawn with colored pencil on the manilla paper. The drawings show hand-to-hand warfare in a brutally honest manner, and have been described as "the most trustworthy sort of visual depiction we have of the battle" that does not centralize General George Custer's role in the fighting.

References

Works

"The Battle of Little Bighorn: An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse Recorded in Pictographs and Text at the Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881,"
Archives of the West, www.pbs.org/

External links

* Rodney G. Thomas
"Indian Casualties According to Red Horse,"
on Diane Merkel (ed.), Little Bighorn website, www.littlebighorn.info/

First People, www.firstpeople.us/ —Photograph of Red Horse. 1822 births 1907 deaths People of the Great Sioux War of 1876 Native American people of the Indian Wars Lakota leaders People of the American Old West Miniconjou people {{NorthAm-native-bio-stub