Yellow Wolf (Cheyenne)

[2] He lived to be 85 years old, and died in 1864 along with his brother at Sand Creek, Colorado, at the Sand Creek Massacre, which disrupted the traditional Cheyenne power structure, because of the deaths of eight members of the Council of Forty-Four.

[1][3] [4] The massacre took place when two militia units, the 1st and 3rd Colorado Regiments, attacked the tribe when they were camping.

[5] Yellow Wolf was held up by George Grinnell, in 1915, as a leader who worked for peace.

[1] Yellow Wolf had a son, Red Moon, who lived through the battle and went on to become another prominent chief.

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