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Post by Dietmar on Jan 13, 2009 14:47:03 GMT -5
A website visitor wants to know more about the Cheyenne Wolf Robe, Honii-Wotoma. Wolf Robe by De Lancey Gill 1909 (SIRIS) What do we know about him?
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Post by charlie on Jan 16, 2009 7:01:30 GMT -5
Born in 1838 - Southern Cheyenne Indian's name: HO'NEHE VOTOOMAHE He generally was a pacific chief, friend of the Whites, and partecipated to several delegations at Washington. He died in 1910 in the Oklahoma Reserve.
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Post by Dietmar on Jan 18, 2009 7:28:55 GMT -5
Thanks Charlie. I have tried to find some more on him: Wolf Robe was a born as a Southern Suhtai in ca. 1846. He was a leading warrior in Gray Beard´s band of Suhtai in his younger years. Wolf Robe is first mentioned in 1864, when he was around age 19. In September he followed war party leader White Leaf and four other Cheyenne warriors to strike their enemies, the Pawnees. On their way they came upon soldiers of General Blunt, who were lead by Major Scott Anthony. In the fight that followed they killed several soldiers and two Delaware scouts. I read that in 1867 Wolf Robe was one of the signers of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in Kansas. Nevertheless Father P.J. Powell stated that Wolf Robe distinguished himself in the final fighting with the soldiers on the Southern Plains. In August 1874 Medicine Water´s war party of Cheyenne killed and captured members of the family of John German along the Smoky Hill Road, Kansas. One of the girls who survived, Sophia German, was taken by one of the warriors to Gray Beard´s camp. There he allowed Wolf Robe to marry her. Before the latter took her as a wife, he gave presents to her capturer. Sophia stayed in his lodge only until February 1875, after many attempts of White people to free her and her sister Catherine, who was in Stone Calf´s camp. Finally she returned to White society. It is said that many Cheyenne women in the camp who liked her were weeping as she left. From March 1875 on Wolf Robe and all Southern Cheyenne had given up their free life and gone to the agencies in Indian Territory. There in his later years Wolf Robe became a prominent Council Chief of the Southern Cheyennes. Wolf Robe by F.A. Rinehart 1898 Wolf Robe by F.A. Rinehart 1898
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Post by Dietmar on Jan 18, 2009 14:27:17 GMT -5
...more photos of Wolf Robe: probably by Charles H. Carpenter 1904 by Charles Milton Bell (edit from a group photograph) by Charles Milton Bell (SIRIS) by Charles Milton Bell (SIRIS) Buffalo Meat, Three Fingers & Wolf Robe 1895 (SIRIS) group photo by F.A. Rinehart (SIRIS) by F.A. Rinehart (SIRIS)
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Post by longcoatlilly on Jan 18, 2009 20:48:27 GMT -5
Dietmar! I am the website visitor.... OMG thank you sooo much [and Charlie] for the information and the yummmmmy photos. I do love the vintage photos of yesteryear-some of these i've seen but there are others posted that I had not soooo I applaude the information and again, Wopila Tanka
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Post by Dietmar on Mar 7, 2009 8:43:52 GMT -5
Elisabeth Grinnell photographed Wolf Robe around 1902: Wolf Robe, Southern Cheyenne
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Post by grahamew on Mar 8, 2009 12:50:45 GMT -5
Group photo with Wolf Robe (posted by Jinlian, I think, on the American Horse thread):
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Post by Dietmar on Mar 27, 2009 9:28:06 GMT -5
Our new member Jeroen has sent me these beautiful portraits of Wolf Robe: Bedankt Jeroen!!!
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Post by Gary on Mar 29, 2009 5:45:02 GMT -5
Great pictures. Especially the last two that I had not seen before. What's their source?
Gary
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Post by jeroen on Aug 30, 2009 14:23:22 GMT -5
a slight variety of an earlier posted Wolf Robe picture by Dietmar above:
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