Bloody Knife

Bloody Knife (1840-25. června 1876) byl Arikara scout for the United States during the Plains Indian Wars. He was George Armstrong Custer's favorite scout, and he was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

Biography

Bloody Knife was born in 1840 in the Dakota Territory to a Sioux father and Arikara mother, and he was abused and discriminated by Chief Gall and other Sioux leaders due to his mixed descent. He left for the Arikara tribe as teenager, and in 1862 he lost his brothers in a Sioux raid led by Gall himself. Bloody Knife se stal kurýrem a lovcem pro American Fur Company under Alfred Sully, a doprovázel George Armstrong Custer na několika vojenských výpravách jako průzkumník, včetně jeho expedice v Yellowstonu. V roce 1876 vedl Marcus Reno's force during the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a byl střelen do hlavy a zabit při rozhovoru s Renem. Reno, jehož tvář byla pokryta mozkem Krvavého nože, znechuceně utekl z pole a jeho další dva Arikarští průzkumníci Little Brave a Bobtail Bull byli také zabiti v bitvě.

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