Buffalo Calf Road Woman of the Northern Cheyenne was one of the few women warriors. During the Battle of Rosebud, June 17, 1876, she saved her brother, Chief Comes in Sight, from death. A week later, on June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, she was credited with knocking Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer off his horse.
After the Cheyenne were forced to surrender, she and her husband, Black Coyote, and their two children were shipped to a reservation in Oklahoma. That didn’t last long, In September of 1878, she and her family fled the reservation with 300 other Cheyenne and headed back to Montana. Along the way Black Coyote and two others killed two soldiers. They were hunted down by the military, were sentenced to death with an execution date of June 8, 1879. While Black Coyote was awaiting execution, he received news his wife had died from the “white man’s coughing disease.” He hanged himself before he could be executed.
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