Pretty Nose ( 1851 – after 1952) was an

Arapaho The Arapaho ( ; , ) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota. By the 1850s, Arapaho bands formed t ...

woman who participated in the

Battle of the Little Bighorn The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota people, Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Si ...

. She lived to be at least 101 years old and reportedly became a war chief.

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Pretty Nose was Arapaho, though in some sources she is referred to as

Cheyenne The Cheyenne ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains. The Cheyenne comprise two Native American tribes, the Só'taeo'o or Só'taétaneo'o (more commonly spelled as Suhtai or Sutaio) and the (also spelled Tsitsistas, The term for th ...

. She was identified as Arapaho on the basis of her red, black and white beaded cuffs. Pretty Nose took part in the

in 1876 with a combined Cheyenne/Arapaho detachment. Pretty Nose's descendant, Mark Soldier Wolf, became an Arapaho tribal elder who served in the US Marine Corps during the

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. She witnessed his return to the Wind River Indian Reservation in 1952, at the age of 101. At the time he reported her wearing cuffs that he said indicated she was a war chief. Pretty Nose was portrayed in the 2017 novel ''The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill'' by Jim Fergus.

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A photograph taken by Laton Alton Huffman shows Pretty Nose with a young woman named Spotted Fawn. One source from the Montana Memory Project implies that they were sisters. She appeared in several of silver prints by Huffman, and they are now part of the collection of the Princeton Library. Her photo is featured on the cover of ''The Spirit of Indian Women'' magazine.

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