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Lit: red-nails(shields)′). [7] or Red Fox. This society was originally found in both the Northern and the Southern Cheyenne. Today it exists only among the Northern Cheyenne. Buffalo Warriors (Hotóanótâxeo'o), [3] also known as Buffalo Bull or Bull, [8] is a branch of the Shield Warriors Society.
A young Pitahawirata Pawnee, named variously Shield Chief [3]: 200 and Carrying the Shield, [4]: 59 was the keeper of a sacred bundle with an old bow and a red arrow. His father had told him to use them in times of great danger. Armed with the sacred weapons from the bundle he went to the battlefield on foot.
According to his traditional biography, the Cheyenne ancestral hero Sweet Medicine received the Sacred Arrows as a gift from supernatural beings, after being taken into a sacred cave at Bear Butte in the Black Hills. [9]: 36 [10]: 268 [11] The two Buffalo Arrows in the bundle were painted red and provided for good hunting.
Their favorite hunting grounds were north of the Dog Soldiers along the upper sub-basins of the Republican River (Ma'êhóóhévâhtseo'hé'e – ″Red Shield River″, so named because there gathered the warriors of the Ma'ėhoohēvȧhtse (Red Shield Warriors Society)) especially along the Beaver Creek, which was also a spiritual place. The ...
Little Shield (Cheyenne language: A-che-kan-koo-eni) was a chieftain of the Northern Cheyenne from 1865–1879. He is known for creating a collection of ledger drawings accounting the Indian wars along the North Platte river. [1] Little Shield also fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn, leading the Dog Soldiers.
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Attached below the shield a Gold scroll inscribed “POWDER RIVER” in Blue letters. Symbolism; The red shield and the five gold fleurs-de-lis are for Artillery service in France. The chief is blue for Infantry service in the Philippines. The gold sun recalls both the Far Eastern service and the shoulder sleeve insignia of the 41st Division.
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