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George Bent, also named Ho—my-ike in Cheyenne (c. 1843 – May 19, 1918), was a Cheyenne - Anglo (in Cheyenne: Tsėhésevé'ho'e - ″Cheyenne-whiteman″) who became a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War and waged war against Americans as a Cheyenne warrior afterward (particularly due to the Sand Creek Massacre perpretrated by ...
Learn about George Bent, the son of a famous trader and a Cheyenne chief, who lived between two worlds and witnessed the Sand Creek Massacre and the Dog Soldiers. Find out how he helped preserve Cheyenne history and culture through his letters and books.
George Bent (1843–1918) was a half-white, half-Native American soldier who fought in multiple battles for the Confederacy during the Civil War and for the Cheyenne people in various wars of the late nineteenth century. His life reflects the shifts in alliances and the balance of power in Colorado over the course of the nineteenth century, from the Indian-dominated fur trade era through the ...
George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyde of Omaha concerning life at the fort, his experiences with his Cheyenne kinsmen, and the events which finally led to the military suppression of the Indians on the southern Great Plains.
In 1843, trader William Bent's marriage to one of his three Cheyenne wives, Owl Woman, produced a son who would lead a remarkable life. Born half-white and half-Indian, George Bent grew up on the pains of southeastern Colorado, was educated in white schools, fought briefly for the Confederacy, survived the Sand Creek massacre, negotiated the Medicine Lodge treaty, and aided the Cheyennes with ...
The uncommon life of George Bent-"halfbreed"-spanned one of the most eventful epochs in American history. Caught uneasily between two cultures in constant conflict, it is a life mirrored in the fictional character Jack Crabb in Thomas Berger's classic novel Little Big Man. Born in 1843 to the prominent white trader Colonel William Bent and his Indian wife, Owl Woman, George Bent was raised as ...
Learn about George Bent, a mixed-race interpreter, historian, and Cheyenne Dog Soldier who fought in the Civil War and witnessed the Sand Creek Massacre. He was the son of William Bent, a famous fur trader and honorary Cheyenne chief.
