Low Dog, the Sioux Tribe’s Chief
Low Dog was the chief of the Sioux tribe, but he wasn’t the only one. He along with Chief Sitting Bull fought together in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Low Dog became a war chief at the young age of 14 and engaged United States forces soon after. He stated that the main reason he went to war is because he refused to let anyone tell him what to do. He claimed: “When it began to be plain that we would have to yield or fight, we had a great many councils. I said, ‘why should I be kept as an humble man, when I am a brave warrior and on my own lands? The game is mine, and the hills, and the valleys, and the white man has no right to say where I shall go or what I shall do. If any white man tries to destroy my property, or take my lands, I will take my gun, get on my horse, and go punish him.”