Background
His father Chief Old Bulletin Bear, the chief of the Eastern Oglala (Kiyaska) from 1834 to 1841, was killed by Red Cloud near Chugwater, Wyoming in the vicinity of Fort Laramie in 1841.
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Career
Old Chief Smoke (1774—1864) took Little Wound"s younger brother, Young Bulletin Bear III and raised him in the Smoke household awhile after his father Old Bulletin Bear was killed in 1841. Little Wound was present at the battle of Massacre Canyon on August 5, 1873, in Hitchcock County, Nebraska. lieutenant was one of the last battles between the Pawnee and the Sioux and the last large scale battle between Native American tribes in the area of the present day United States of America.
At an Indian scout reorganization at Red Cloud Agency in 1877 the Oglalas formed the majority of Company B, to whose leadership Little Wound was promoted as first sergeant.
Major chiefs Red Cloud, Young Manitoba Afraid of His Horses, Yellow Bear and American Horse served as his sergeants. Eventually he joined the delegation to Washington which is where the photo on the right was taken.
After appearance of troops at Pine Ridge, he advocated for peace with the European Americans.
