Photo by D.F. Barry, 1878-83.
This may be the only photograph of Half Yellow Face, pipe carrier (leader-chief) for Custer’s six Crow scouts at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, according to Sharon Small, curator at the Little Bighorn Battlefield Museum, who has suggested that the man wearing the cavalry coat is Half Yellow Face. The coat has corporal’s chevron and as leader of the Crow Scouts, Half Yellow Face had that rank and he would own such a coat.
They went down with the regiment - Souix and Cheyenne wouldn't have cut Crow Army Scouts any slack.
ReplyDeleteProbably rightly saw the Crow as traitors, but then again even without the Americans in the picture they were bitter enemies.
DeleteYou ought to take a tour there at the Monument (Road Trip!). It's staffed by members of the nearby Crow reservation. There's quite a different perspective to be had.
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