Co-Rux-Te-Chod-Ish (English: Mad or Angry Bear) was a Sergeant in Company A, Pawnee Scout Battalion, US Army Pawnee and the first Indigenous recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.
Kuruks Tîčaris (translated as Mad or Angry Bear but is Pawnee for Grizzly Bear) was born circa 1847 in Nebraska, growing up as a Pawnee tribesman.
On 8 July 1869, while chasing after a Cheyenne Dog Soldier near the Republican River in Kansas, he was thrown from his horse and was badly injured when another member of his unit shot him by mistake.
[1] Mad Bear was the first Native American to receive the Medal of Honor.
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