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Lame White Man, or Vé'ho'énȯhnéhe (c. 1837 or 1839–1876), was a Cheyenne battle chief who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, and was killed there. He was the only Cheyenne chief to die in the battle.
One source states that he was a tribal chief and another that he was a warrior chief, but the sources agree that Lame White Man assumed a leading role in the fighting at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and was killed in the combat that took place around the Custer/Last Stand area of the battle.
Lame White Man was a Southern Cheyenne, who came north after Sand Creek with his small following. He then was a head soldier of the Northern Elkhorn Scraper society but still rated as a southern council chief.
Stands in Timber, a grandson of Lame White Man, who was killed at the Little Bighorn, was educated at the Haskell Institute, a school for Indians in Lawrence, Kansas, and part of his dedication to the history of his people is the result of hearing white men’s versions of events that contradicted what the Indians knew.
Among the Cheyenne who participated in the battle was Lame White Man, born a Southern Cheyenne but living among the Northern Cheyenne, and Wooden Leg, who was just 18 years of age at the battle. After continued fighting against the U.S. Army in 1876 and 1877, many Northern Cheyennes were placed on reservations in Nebraska.
Lame White Man, Ve Ho Enóhnenehe was a Southern Cheyenne battle leader who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and was killed there. He was also known as Bearded Man to the Lakota. He was the husband of Twin Woman and father to Red Hat and Crane Woman.
Picture 19 looks NW--From Greasy Grass Ridge, Lame White Man of the Cheyenne tribe yelled, "Come on boys, we can kill them all!" During the charge against Company C, the warriors stampeded the soldier's horses and just about wiped-out all the troopers. Lame White Man died during the attack.
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