Minnie Hollow Wood

Minnie Hollow Wood (c. 1856 – 1930s) was a Lakota woman who earned the right to wear a war bonnet because of her valor in combat against the U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

[5] Minnie Hollow Wood lived on the Cheyenne reservation in Montana and became an informant of author and ethnologist Thomas Bailey Marquis.

[6] Minnie Hollow Wood was the subject of an animated short by Yvonne Russo.

[7] Minnie's War Bonnet premiered at the Red Nation International Film Festival in 2019.

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Photographed around 1925