Little Man (Cheyenne Arrow Keeper)
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Little Man was the son of Stone Forehead's sister and thus the cousin of Black Hairy Dog.
At the latter's death, ca.1883, Little Man succeeded him as Keeper. His father Turtle Following His Wife and his mother Running Face along with his brother White Beaver.
Like his family of the arrows he too possessed Spirit Lodge power to an unusual degree. Little Man, Keeper of the Arrows reigned during a time when the Cheyenne was in build. Although his father and his five-year-old brother had perished in Sand Creek.
Soon took a wife Crossroads in hopes to keep the Arrow Tradition alive in his family. Fanny Little Man (Daughter), Fred Little Man (Son) and Louis (Lewis) Little Man.
In 1914,he attempted to turn the Keeper's responsibility over to Old Crow. The transfer was refused by the Chiefs,the Arrow priest and the leaders of the military societies. They held fast to Sweet Medicine's rule that the Arrow Keeper must be Tsistsistas, but on request Little Man permitted peyote to be placed in the Sacred Arrow Bundle, soon died in 1917. Thus silencing decades of loyalty, generations of guardianship and centuries of keepers of his royal bloodline.
Guardians and Priests of the Arrows soon shifted to a new Keeper, but an unlikely era. Little Man's sons to young to take leadership, soon taken away by the white man.
At the latter's death, ca.1883, Little Man succeeded him as Keeper. His father Turtle Following His Wife and his mother Running Face along with his brother White Beaver.
Like his family of the arrows he too possessed Spirit Lodge power to an unusual degree. Little Man, Keeper of the Arrows reigned during a time when the Cheyenne was in build. Although his father and his five-year-old brother had perished in Sand Creek.
Soon took a wife Crossroads in hopes to keep the Arrow Tradition alive in his family. Fanny Little Man (Daughter), Fred Little Man (Son) and Louis (Lewis) Little Man.
In 1914,he attempted to turn the Keeper's responsibility over to Old Crow. The transfer was refused by the Chiefs,the Arrow priest and the leaders of the military societies. They held fast to Sweet Medicine's rule that the Arrow Keeper must be Tsistsistas, but on request Little Man permitted peyote to be placed in the Sacred Arrow Bundle, soon died in 1917. Thus silencing decades of loyalty, generations of guardianship and centuries of keepers of his royal bloodline.
Guardians and Priests of the Arrows soon shifted to a new Keeper, but an unlikely era. Little Man's sons to young to take leadership, soon taken away by the white man.
See also
- Medicine ArrowsMedicine ArrowsMedicine Arrows was a Cheyenne chief and Keeper of the Medicine Arrows from 1850 until his death. Rock Forehead became known to whites as Medicine Arrows after his appointment to this office...