Glenmore and Leman 1986: 130

Yellow Nose: Heóveeséhe

Glenmore, Josephine Stands in Timber and Wayne Leman
1984	Cheyenne Topical Dictionary. Cheyenne Translation Project, Busby, Montana.

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From the unpublished letters of George Bent to George Hyde

Colony, Okla. December 11, 1905
Two Crows, Good Bear and Starving Elk...belong to Dog Soldiers. They were in Forsyth, Carpenter and Carr fights in 1868. [p. 5] Good Bear says after Forsyth fight, Dog Soldiers and Sioux had fought four companies of soldiers on Solomon’s River, in the night. They broke loose some of the soldiers’ horses. Yellow Nose says in this night attack his horse fell with him, and lost his shield and lance as it was very dark night, and the soldiers were shooting at them at close quarters. Mr. J.J. White, who is writing for Grinnell, tells me he got the shield from an officer. I forgot to ask him what officer was in command. I think it was Carr’s outfit.

Colony, Okla. April 2, 1912
...Yellow Nose has the honor and credit of being first man charging in among Custer’s man, and taking flag away from soldier. Since Yellow Nose has been living down here, and [is] blind, Two Moons, Northern Cheyenne chief is claiming and getting credit in that massacre. ...Yellow Nose was Ute Indian captured by Lean Bear, Cheyenne Chief, when he was four years old in 1858, so he is 58 years old. Yellow Nose and his mother were both captured by Lean Bear. He was famous warrior...killed by Lieut. Ayres’ men in 1865...

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Register of Indians at
Red Cloud Agency,
March 1877

Cheyennes
Head of Families	Adult 
Males	Adult 
Females	Children 
Males	Children
Females	
Red Finger Nails	3	4	2	1	
Yellow Nose					
Twenty No. 2					
(The way these three Cheyenne males are listed indicates that they lived in a single lodge with four adult women, two boys, and one girl at the time of their surrender after the Custer Battle! -- NI)

Quoted from = 
Buecker, Thomas R. and R. Eli Paul (editors)
1994	The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society: 112.

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Census of the Cheyenne Indians
Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, I.T.
1881

143	
Wolf Feathers/O-ney-wo-no-tunst
[Son-in-law of Lean Bear]		34	M	1847-	
Bears Woman/Nock-ki-eh
[Daughter of Lean Bear from his second wife, White Woman]	wife 1	31	F	1850-	
Black Painted Woman/Mot-su-i-wy-eh
[Daughter of Lean Bear from his third wife, Slim Feathers]	wife 2	24	F	1857-	
Old Horse/Mo-e-no-sin-asts  (herder)	son	10	M	1871-	
Owl Woman/Min-stan-stu-eh	dau.	3	F		
					
144	
White Man’s Wife/Ve-hue-ist-sa-mon
[one of the widows of Lean Bear]		50	F	1831-	
Ute Woman/Mu-taw-hoh-tan-ah (Ute prisoner)	adopted
sister	40	F	1841-	
Animal Woman/Mu-to-wi-eh	dau.	19	F	1862-	
Yellow Nose/E-yo-e-sa  (Ute prisoner)	adopted
son	30	M	1851-	
Porcupine Sioux	son	14	M		
Spread Wings	son	12	M		
Badger Teeth Woman	dau.	9	F		

Census of the Cheyenne Indians
Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, I.T.
June 30th 1887

62.	Mrs. Lean Bear
[one of the widows of Lean Bear]	Mother	55	1832-	
63.	Laying on Side	Daughter	9	1878(!)-	
					
64.	No-co-mista
[son of Powder Face Sr., the full brother of Lean Bear]	Husband	50	1837-	
65.	Bear Woman	Wife	48	1839-	
66.	Red Feather	Daughter	18		
67.	Round Belly	Son	5		
68.	Spotted Eagle	Daughter	1		
4					
69.	Mrs. Little Chief	Mother	28		
70.	Little	Daughter	4		
71.	Beaver Heart	Son	1		
72.	Young Elk	Sister	20		
					
73.	White Spoon
[son of Lean Bear from his second wife, White Woman]	Husband	32	1855-	
74.	Shield	Wife	28	1859-	
75.	Horace Bullock	Nephew	15		
76.	Little Beaver Woman	Daughter	6		
					
77.	Mrs. White Man
[another widow of Lean Bear]	Mother	60	1827-	
78.	Crooked Nose	Sister	44	1843-	
79.	Plume	Niece	13		
80.	Thin Nose	Daughter	15		
					
81.	Roman Nose or Matches	(male)	50	1837-	
					
82.	Wolf Feathers
[son-in-law of Lean Bear]	Husband	42	1845-	
83.	Bear Woman
[daughter of Lean Bear from his second wife, White Woman]	W	38	1849-	
84.	Naunee	Daughter	12	1875-	
85.	Little Woman	Daughter	12	1875-	
86.	Yellow Nose	Br.-in-law	32	1855-	

Southern Cheyenne Census
1891

786.	Big Bellied Woman	45	F	
787.	Rush Harris	s	18	M	
788.	Little Woman	d	10	F	
789.	Mexican	d	8	F	
					
790.	Mrs. Spotted Calf	30	F	
	Bottle Nose	s	baby	M	
					
793.	Pipe Woman	60	F	
794.	Bob Tail Bull	s	20	M	
795.	Yellow Woman	d	16	F	
					
797.	Yellow Nose	43	M	
798.	American Horse		34	M	
799.	Last One	w	34	F	
800.	White Log	s	8	M	
					
812.	Harry Starr	28	M	
813.	Mrs. American Horse		59	F	
814.	Medicine Sack	d	19	F	

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Notes from the unpublished Mari Sandoz files, Libraries of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Yellow Nose, Ute-Cheyenne (So.), blind since Custer battle. Lived long time with Edward Guerriere on North Canadian in west Oklahoma. Married to a Northern Cheyenne. Went bathing with Crazy Horse about noon when heard shooting of Reno, on 6-25-1876. Custer Mass. ...? 9-1-1902. DL. Mari Sandoz files, Card 1944.

Red Head, wife of Yellow Nose. Mari Sandoz files, Card 7657.

American Horse, 1847-1916. Died at Lame Deer. His father Big Beaver, his mother Burns. First married in Wyoming in 1866 to Big Belly (Mah-ko-si). Her father Timber Chum, her mother Bear Plume. Son of American Horse and Big Belly: Rush Harris, born 1867. Second time married to Mah-a-ve, sa[?], Red Haired Woman (born 1850) in Wyoming, 1867. Her father Standing Elk, her mother Stands Wrong. Children of American Horse and Mah-a-ve: 1) Badger Woman (born 1860(?MSandoz); 2) Austin Texas (born 1878). Third marriage, wife: No-no-ni (1883), or Cora American Horse. Her father, One Horn, her mother Stands Lightning. Probate Case #4-5, Lame Deer, Northern Cheyenne n.d., Mari Sandoz files, Cards 5900-5901.

George American Horse, Sr., Northern Cheyenne. 66yrs old. Born 1845 or 1847, died 1911, Tongue River Agency. His father Big Beaver, his mother Burns. Brother Shell. Wives: 1) Mrs. Last Bull, married over 40 years ago (1870s’); 2) Mochsi. One child: Rush Harris; 3) Red Hair. Six children: Austin Texas, George American Horse, Jr., etc.; 4) Josie or Flora, sister [of] Red Hair. Probate Case #4, Lame Deer, Northern Cheyenne n.g., Mari Sandoz files, Card 5905.

Josie or Flora American Horse, Northern Cheyenne. Fourth wife of George American Horse, Sr. Died 1911. Sister of his third wife, Red Hair, and aunt of Austin Texas, George American Horse, Jr. etc.. Her father One Horn, her mother Stands Lightning. Allotment Schedule, Lame Deer, Northern Cheyenne n.d., Mari Sandoz files, Card 5908.

Red Hair, third woman of George American Horse. They married in Wyoming, 1867. Her father Standing Elk, her mother Stands Wrong. Their children: 1) Badger Woman (1870- ); 2) Austin Texas (1878- ). Allotment sheet, Lame Deer, Northern Cheyenne n.d., MSandoz files, Card 7651.

Red Haired Woman/Mah-a-wisa (born 1850). Her father Standing Elk, her mother Stands Wrong. Married in 1867, in Wyoming to George American Horse. Children: Badger Woman (1860?- ); Austin Texas (1878- ). Probate Cases #4-5., Lame Deer, Northern Cheyenne n.d., MSandoz files, Card 7654.

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Notes from the unpublished field notes of James Mooney
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Mackenzie fight
Informant: Tall Redbird - Northern Cheyenne, married to a Southern Cheyenne woman. He was there.
The necklace of fingers was of Shoshoni right hand fingers. All taken by owner in Cheyenne massacre of a Shoshoni camp in 1871.
Tall Redbird says, a finger necklace was made by a Northern Cheyenne, Bear's Lariat, who was in this fight. Ten days before, the Cheyennes moving from Crazy Woman's Fork over to the Powder river, met a camp of Shoshonis also on march, and whipped them. Killed a Shoshoni man, woman and child (the ones of arm(?) and scalp of 31), Bear's Lariat got fingers of his necklace in 1871.
Bent: The Cheyennes were camped on Lodgepole creek, branch of Powder river, Montana. (Near where Fetterman was killed in 1867(sic)). Only seven lodges, on moving to main Cheyenne camp on Powder river, to help Crazy Mule make medicine. Discovered by a war party of Shoshonis who were on foot. The Shoshonis waited until the night to attack them, but in the meantime these Cheyennes had gone on. Night, moonlight, and snow on ground. It is the winter of 1871-72. The Shoshonis follow on the trail, and follow it until they see the tipis in the high willows on Powder river. Dogs bark. The Shoshonis take some horses aside (tied in the country?), and come back and fire into the camp. They do not know that main Cheyenne camp is there. Crazy Mule had been fixing the Sacred Arrows, and men still in tipi after midnight - run out and get on horses. Shoshoni discover mistake and retreat. Pursued into a canyon, and the Cheyennes killed many. Four of them jumped over high bluff and killed. Bear's Lariat got fingers on this occasion = one index finger from each right hand. Ask Long Sioux at Cantonment.
DON'T AGREE. ASK MORE. - Over.
P26 - Doesn't know who was the man on white horse. He was killed. He was on a kind of red spotted white horse. The other who got        was Yellow Nose, the Ute captive, now living here. - Everybody knows. He was shot through the right shoulder, but recovered.
Policeman "Blue," a Northern Cheyenne. He was not in the Mackenzie fight. He says the finger necklace belonged to Bear Lariat. He saw it. He used put medicine in the finger. Says necklace was buckskin. Probably Long Sioux still had another.

(James Mooney: Miscellaneous notes on the Cheyenne. 1903-1906. MS  No. 2213., National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.)

Finger Necklace. 
Heap of Birds was a Southern Cheyenne chief. He died in Florida. His wife was a Northern Cheyenne. He had a necklace of human fingers. He gave it to his son Long Sioux (alias White Coyote) together with his shield, and a horse in the spring of 1868, just before charging on a Pawnee village. He first dragged the necklace four times over the ground, and put it on himself. Then he did the same, and put it on his son's neck, and told him how to use it. White Spoon was there, and saw how it was done. Used cut off one index finger every time counted coup. Long Sioux was in this fight vs Mackenzie on the Powder river, and now he lives at Cantonment. All laugh at the description of the ceremony. No other had such a necklace. Long Sioux was not in the camp just at that time, because he would never have(sic) left it. His father told him: "No matter how hard the fight, he would never get hit."
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Not High Wolf -- Only one of the name since the one painted by Catlin.
(This one) was killed in 1865, above the Laramie bridge. - George Bent was there.
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Just before Mackenzie struck the Cheyennes, the Cheyennes had run into a party of Shoshoni, who were probably moving down to a buffalo hunt, and had whipped them. -- George Bent.
Ask Yellow Nose, he was there in Shoshoni fight, and was shot through brest in Mackenzie fight. 
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They killed this Shoshoni woman with the girl on her back. Yellow Nose knows.

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