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Post by kessidel on Sept 6, 2014 17:42:25 GMT -5
I'm looking for any information on Chief War Bonnet. All I've been able to find out was that he was killed at Sand Creek.
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Post by cinemo on Sept 7, 2014 6:52:12 GMT -5
War Bonnet was a Southern Cheyenne and he was in his last years the leader of the Scabby band.
In 1863, he was visiting president Lincoln in Washington, togehter with Lean Bear ( also Starving Bear ) and Standing In The Water . All three chiefs were killed in 1864
It seems to be difficult, to obtain more or detailed information about this chief.
cinemo
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Post by charlie on Sept 11, 2014 4:43:22 GMT -5
Born circa 1804 in Oi'vimana (Scabby People) band of Southern Cheyenne.
Indian's name: Ka Ko Yu'i Si Nih'
He died in 29 November 1864 in Sand Creek battle, with more than half of his band.
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Post by kessidel on Sept 14, 2014 16:53:07 GMT -5
Thanks! I've even found some photo's of him as well!!
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Post by kessidel on Sept 14, 2014 17:45:11 GMT -5
Dare I ask who or what was the 'Scabby band' ?
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Post by shatonska on Sept 15, 2014 9:46:49 GMT -5
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Post by cinemo on Sept 15, 2014 14:48:32 GMT -5
Scabby band :
Oǐ’vimána ( sing., Oǐ’vimán ), ‘scabby people’; oǐ’vǐ ‘scabby,’ mana ‘band,’ `people’ (Petter); according to another authority, ‘hive people.’ An offshoot of the Hévhaitä’nio . The name originated about 1840, when a band of the Hévhaitä’nio, under a chief known as Blue Horse, became infected from having used a mangy buffalo hide for a saddle blanket. They became later an important division. According to Grinnell (Social Organization, 1905) the name is also applied as a nickname to a part of the Northern Cheyenne on lower Tongue river, “because, it is said, Badger, a principal man among them, had a skin disease.”
cinemo
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