Wolf Voice, Cheyenne/Gros Ventre

[Dietmar]

Wolf Voice, Cheyenne/Gros Ventre

There were several pictures of Wolf Voice in different threads, so I thought it would be best to give him his own thread.

Wolf Voice was a Gros Ventre by birth, who married Elk Woman, a Northern Cheyenne woman. He surrendered with the Cheyenne at Fort Keogh and afterwards scouted for General Miles in 1878/1879. He played a role as interpreter for Lt. Clark when Little Wolf was surrendering at Fort Keogh after his flight from Indian Territory. Christian Barthelmess later took pictures of him when he was a member of Lt. Casey´s Indian Scout force.


“Wolf Voice and Cheyenne woman” by John H. Fouch
This must be Elk Woman, Cheyenne wife of Wolf Voice.


Wolf Voice & friend (by John H. Fouch)


Wolf Voice by S.J. Morrow, Fort Keogh 1878


Wolf Voice by L.A. Huffman

[Dietmar]

This is Christian Barthelmess´portrait of Wolf Voice and his family:



Wolf Voice is standing left. Standing right is Yellow Robe, who married a sister of Elk Woman. The white three-year-old child is Leo, Barthelmess´son.

At this time (1889), Wolf Voice was an agency policeman.

Casey Barthelmess, son of the photographer, recalled about Wolf Voice:
"I remember Wolf Voice, who was a Casey scout. Remember what Frederic Remington wrote about Wolf Voice? Said he had ´a grand face, tremendous physique and enough self-containment for a High-Church bishop´. I knew Yellow Robe, who was the last of the Cheyenne scouts to die. He passed away in 1957 in the Veterans Hospital at Miles City."
(Maurice Frink/Casey Barthelmess: Photographer on an Army Mule, page 94)

[kingsleybray]

I might be wrong, Dietmar, but I thought (maybe just assumed) that Wolf Voice, identified as a Gros Ventre who lived with the Cheyennes, was a Plains Gros Ventre or Atsina, not an Hidatsa (also known as Atsina).

There was a Northern Cheyenne sub-band called Notamin (Northward Facing) that had some connection with the Atsina. The Atsina were of course closely related to the Cheyenne's tribal allies the Arapahos.

[Dietmar]

Kingsley,

that could also be my mistake. I thought I have seen him labeled Hidatsa somewhere, but I´m not sure after your note.

I change the thread heading to Gros Ventre until there is confirmation.

Thanks
Dietmar

[Dietmar]

A later portrait of Wolf Voice by Frederic Remington:

[cinemo]

Wolf Voice was a Gros Ventre but married to a Cheyenne woman. He served a few years as an scout with the
Cheyenne scouts at Fort Keogh. In 1879, he was a scout for Lieutennant W.P.Clark. Wolf Voice found the camp
of Little Wolf about on March 25, near Box Elder Creek. When Wolf Voice was in Little Wolf`s camp, he called
out: I am Cheyenne !

There is a humorous story about Wolf Voice, when er got his first wagon und harness
( The year of this event is not known to me )

Wolf Voice harnessed and hitched his horses to the wagon and set out for a drive. He saw ahead of him a broad
ditch. He had been accustomed to making his horse jump across such ditches, so when he approached this one
he whipped his team into a run. After he got out of the smashup he decided he did not like to ride in a wagon.

cinemo