Philippine–American War Hugh Lenox Scott (September 22, 1853 – April 30, 1934) was a United States Army officer.

Later that year he accompanied a supply train to Fort Custer and during his return he stopped to stay with members of the Crow tribe.

[12] While Scott was apprehensive about future relations with the neighboring Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache, his knowledge of sign language impressed them.

This action, while serving the interest of white settlers and speculators, undoubtedly also saved the lives of many Native Americans.

[14] In 1890–91, he was given the responsibility for suppressing the "Ghost Dance" religious movement that swept the Indian reservations and received official commendation for that work.

In November 1897, he was attached to the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, where he began preparing a work on Indian sign languages.

He was promoted to major in the Regular Army in February 1903 and served as military governor of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines, in 1903–06 and also commanded troops there, taking part in various skirmishes, reorganized the civil government and institutions.

[1] In August 1906, he was named superintendent of the United States Military Academy, a post he held for four years with the temporary rank of colonel.

He won a special commendation for his skillful handling of Navajo disturbances at Beautiful Mountain, Arizona, in November 1913.

[11] He continued to act in a diplomatic role with Indians and Mexican border officials in the Southwest, settling problems with the Paiutes of Utah in March 1915 and recovering property "confiscated" by Pancho Villa in August.

[18] Scott retired finally in May 1919 and served on the Board of Indian Commissioners from 1919 to 1929 and was chairman of the New Jersey State Highway Commission from 1923 to 1933.

[11] Scott died in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 1934, and was buried among many other family members in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery.

General Scott appears as a character in The Friends of Pancho Villa (1996), a historical novel by James Carlos Blake.