Tall Bull

Tall Bull
Cheyenne: Hotóa'ôxháa'êstaestse
Chief of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers leader
Personal details
Bornc. 1830
DiedJuly 11, 1869
Cause of deathKilled in the Battle of Summit Springs

Tall Bull (c. 1830 - July 11, 1869) (Hotóa'ôxháa'êstaestse) was a chief of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers. Of Cheyenne and Lakota parentage, like some of the other Dog Soldiers by that time, he identified as Cheyenne.

He was shot and killed in the Battle of Summit Springs in Colorado by Major Frank North, leader of the Pawnee Scouts.

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