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Interview with Hairy Moccasin at Lodgegrass, Montana, February 23, 1911, Eli Black Hawk, Interpreter1 |
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I am a Mountain Crow 57 years old. The Mountain Crows and the River Crows had one agency at Stillwater. Gibbon was known as No Hip, which in Crow is Isshushumdate. Custer was known as Ihcke Deikdagua which means, literally, Morning Star Sun, or perhaps, better, Morning Star. |
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Before we had left the mouth of the Rosebud, I and two other Crows had been sent up the north bank of the Yellowstone, along with a company of cavalry, to scout the country and look for Sioux. We went as far as where Junction City is now [mouth of Big Horn, but verify], remained there one night and returned to mouth of Rosebud before Custer left there. We found no Sioux. |
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On the night of June 24 the officer in charge of the scouts took five Crows and Mitch Bouyer and went to a high place in Wolf Mountains. As soon as it came daylight enough to see, we saw smoke and dust in the valley of the Little Bighorn. The smoke indicated a village and the dust a pony herd. Half Yellow Face was not with us. I do not know where he was unless he remained back with the soldiers. |
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While up there we saw two Sioux with three horses, who traveled off toward the Little Bighorn. |
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When Custer separated from Reno he took four Crows, and Reno |
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1. Walter Camp field notes, folders 15 and 26, BYU Library. Hairy Moccasin was enlisted in Lieutenant James Bradley's Detachment of Indian Scouts on April 10, 1876, for service with the 7th Infantry. He was on detached service with the 7th Cavalry from June 21. He withdrew from the Custer column about 3:15 p.m. on June 25 and eventually returned to Crow Agency. He died on October 9, 1922, at Lodgegrass, Montana. His account is also in The Tepee Book, 1916, p. 54; 1926, p. 67 and in Joseph Dixon's The Vanishing Race, pp. 13840. |
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