Hairy Moccasin (also known as Esh-sup-pee-me-shish) ( 1854October 9, 1922) was a Crow scout for

George Armstrong Custer George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, b ...

's 7th Cavalry during the 1876 campaign against the Sioux and

Northern Cheyenne The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation ( chy, Tsėhéstáno; formerly named the Tongue River) is the federally recognized Northern Cheyenne tribe. Located in southeastern Montana, the reservation is approximately ...

. He was a survivor of the

Battle of the Little Big Horn The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Nor ...

. He volunteered to become an Army scout on April 10, 1876, and joined fellow Crow warriors White Man Runs Him, Curly (scout), Curly, Goes Ahead, White Swan, and Half Yellow Face (leader of the Crow scouts) in the valley of the Little Big Horn River near the current site of Crow Agency, Montana to assist the United States Army, Army's fight against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne. Both tribes were traditional enemies of the Crow. After scouting the encampment on the banks of the Little Big Horn River, they reported to Custer. After Custer got angry at his changing into traditional Crow clothing for the battle believing he was going to die, Hairy Moccasin was dismissed by Custer about an hour before the last stand. He joined Strikes the Bear (an Arikara Scout), White Man Runs Him, and Goes Ahead with Major Marcus Reno's column on the ridge overlooking the last stand. Attacked but not overrun, most of Reno's men survived the engagement. After the Black Hills War ended, Hairy Moccasin settled onto the Indian reservation, Crow Reservation in Montana. He died October 9, 1922, near Lodge Grass, Montana, Lodge Grass and was buried in Saint Ann's Cemetery. Crow Scouts 1913

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Custer's Scouts at Little Big Horn
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hairy Moccasin 1854 births 1922 deaths Crow tribe People of the Great Sioux War of 1876 Native American United States military personnel People of pre-statehood Montana United States Army Indian Scouts Burials in Montana Battle of the Little Bighorn

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