One Who Walks With the Stars (also translated as Walks with Stars Woman or Woman-Who-Walks-with-the-Stars) was an Oglala Lakota woman[1] who fought against General Custer's men at Big Horn.[2]
She was the wife of Crow Dog, a Brulé Lakota warrior.
Battle of the Little Big Horn
She killed two soldiers by slashing and clubbing them in the water of the river bank during the Battle of Little Big Horn.[3] Lawson (2007) writes that "Although Crow Dog did not kill anyone during the battle, his wife, One-Who-Walks-with-the-Stars, killed two soldiers who were attempting to swim across the river."[4][5]
According to survivors of Little Big Horn,[3][6] one of these killings took place while One Who Walks With the Stars was rounding up stray cavalry horses in woodland near the Brulé camp. Seeing one of Custer's men crawling through the brush in an attempt to reach the river, she took a piece of driftwood and clubbed him to death.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Hardorff, Richard G. (1997). Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight: New Sources of Indian-military History. University of Nebraska Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780803272934.
- ^ Maine, Floyd Shuster (1956). Lone Eagle, the White Sioux. Albuquerque (Madison): University of New Mexico Press (Original: University of Wisconsin Press). pp. 128–129. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ a b Wagner, Frederic C., III (December 23, 2015). Participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn: A Biographical Dictionary of Sioux, Cheyenne and United States Military Personnel (E-book) (2nd ed.). United States: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. pp. 138, 168, 235. ISBN 9781476624396. Archived from the original on September 26, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Lawson, Michael L. (2007). Landmark Events in Native American History: Little Big Horn, Winning the Battle, Losing the War. New York: Infobase Publishing. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-7910-9347-4. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ "Native Americans & Little Big Horn~Sioux Treaty of 1868 - Stories". Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ Miller, David Humphreys (1992). Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story. New York: Meridian Books. pp. 156–158. ISBN 0452010950.
- ^ "LBH Warriors" (PDF). Friendslittlebighorn.com. April 26, 2014. p. 33. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 22, 2018. Retrieved September 26, 2020.