Minnie Hollow Wood
Minnie Hollow Wood ({{circa|1856}}{{Spaced en dash}}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.{{cite book |last1=Hirschfelder |first1=Arlene |last2=Molin |first2=Paulette F. |title=The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists |date=2012 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810877108 |page=217}}{{Cite book|last1=Dennis|first1=Yvonne Wakim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OnBrDQAAQBAJ|title=Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples|last2=Hirschfelder|first2=Arlene|last3=Flynn|first3=Shannon Rothenberger|date=2016-04-18|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=978-1-57859-607-2|language=en}}{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.pbs.org/wned/warrior-tradition/watch/minnies-war-bonnet/|title=Minnie's War Bonnet|series=The Warrior Tradition|via=PBS|date=November 15, 2019|first=Yvonne|last=Russo|time=4:37}}{{Rp|4:37}} At one time, she was the only woman in her tribe entitled to wear a war bonnet.{{Cite book|last=Green|first=Rayna|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninamericani00gree|title=Women in American Indian society|date=1992|publisher=New York : Chelsea House Publishers|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-7910-0401-2}}
Biography
Her husband, Hollow Wood, was a Cheyenne who also fought at the Little Big Horn.{{cite web|url=http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/LBH%20Warriors.pdf|title=LBH Warriors|date=April 26, 2014|page=21|website=Friends Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield|access-date=May 25, 2006|archive-date=December 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222180016/http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/LBH%20Warriors.pdf|url-status=live}} Both Hollow Woods surrendered to Colonel Nelson A. Miles at Fort Keogh in Montana in 1877.
Minnie Hollow Wood lived on the Cheyenne reservation in Montana and became an informant of author and ethnologist Thomas Bailey Marquis. Marquis suggested that she was a "favorite" of Miles while she was a prisoner at Fort Keogh.{{Cite web|url=http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/cheyenneprimacy.htm|title=Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army: A Possible Alternative To 'The Great Sioux War of 1876|website=Friends Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield|first=Dr. Margot|last=Liberty|date=November 2006|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830205929/http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/Cheyenneprimacy.htm|archivedate=August 30, 2020|accessdate=February 26, 2012}}
Representation in popular culture
Minnie Hollow Wood was the subject of an animated short by Yvonne Russo.{{Cite web|title=Minnie's War Bonnet: A modern Native warrior woman|url=https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/minnie-s-war-bonnet-a-modern-native-warrior-woman-n15N9QDgRkmsll9sPLVI0A|access-date=2020-09-30|website=IndianCountryToday.com|language=en}} Minnie's War Bonnet premiered at the Red Nation International Film Festival in 2019.{{Cite web|title=Red Nation Film Festival {{!}} Minnie's War Bonnet|url=https://www.rednationff.com/minnies-war-bonnet/|access-date=2020-09-30}}
See also
- {{annotated link|Buffalo Calf Road Woman}}
- {{annotated link|Moving Robe Woman}}
- {{annotated link|One Who Walks With the Stars}}
- {{annotated link|Pretty Nose}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.pbs.org/wned/warrior-tradition/watch/minnies-war-bonnet/ Minnie's War Bonnet] – animated short
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060621185708/http://lbha.org/Indians/NameM.htm Directory of Plains Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn]
- [http://aiwa.americanindiansource.com/nativewomenmilitary/nativewomenmilitary.html Two images of Minnie Hollow Wood in "Native American Women and the U.S. Military"]
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Category:Native American women in warfare
Category:People of the Great Sioux War of 1876
Category:Women in 19th-century warfare
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