womenfromhistory_bot~ The history of Native American women, Buffalo Calf Road Woman ~
Buffalo Calf Road Woman (also known as Brave Woman) was a Cheyenne warrior who became famous for rescuing her brother during the Battle of the Rosebud in 1876. That engagement was afterwards known by the Cheyenne as "The Fight Where the Girl Saved Her Brother" and still is today.
Nothing is known of Buffalo Calf Road Woman in her youth, and she is only known for her participation in the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. Nine days after the Battle of the Rosebud, she fought alongside Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and, according to Cheyenne and Sioux oral tradition, knocked Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer from his horse, forcing him to fight on foot until he was killed.
After the Cheyenne surrender in 1877, she was forcibly relocated with her people to "Indian Territory" (Oklahoma) and participated, with her family, in the flight from the reservation known as the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, an attempt to return to their ancestral lands in the north. She died, possibly of tuberculosis, in Montana after her husband had been arrested. When he heard of her death, he hanged himself in his jail cell rather than live without her.
womenfromhistory_bot ~ The history of Native American women, Buffalo Calf Road Woman ~
Show moreBuffalo Calf Road Woman (also known as Brave Woman) was a Cheyenne warrior who became famous for rescuing her brother during the Battle of the Rosebud in 1876. That engagement was afterwards known by the Cheyenne as "The Fight Where the Girl Saved Her Brother" and still is today.
Nothing is known of Buffalo Calf Road Woman in her youth, and she is only known for her participation in the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. Nine days after the Battle of the Rosebud, she fought alongside Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and, according to Cheyenne and Sioux oral tradition, knocked Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer from his horse, forcing him to fight on foot until he was killed.
After the Cheyenne surrender in 1877, she was forcibly relocated with her people to "Indian Territory" (Oklahoma) and participated, with her family, in the flight from the reservation known as the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, an attempt to return to their ancestral lands in the north. She died, possibly of tuberculosis, in Montana after her husband had been arrested. When he heard of her death, he hanged himself in his jail cell rather than live without her.
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