Pretty Nose (b. c. 1851) was an Arapaho woman who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. She lived to be at least 101 years old and reportedly became a war chief.[1][2][3]
Pretty Nose was Arapaho, though in some sources she is referred to as Cheyenne.[4] She was identified as Arapaho on the basis of her red, black and white beaded cuffs.[1][A].
Pretty Nose's descendant, Mark Soldier Wolf, became an Arapaho tribal elder who served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. She witnessed his return to the Wind River Indian Reservation in 1952, at the age of 101. At the time he reported her wearing cuffs that he said indicated she was a war chief.[1]
Pretty Nose was portrayed in the 2017 novel The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGillbyJim Fergus.[6][7][8][9]
A photograph taken by Laton Alton Huffman c. 1880 shows Pretty Nose with a young woman named Spotted Fawn.[10] One source from the Montana Memory Project implies that they were sisters.[11] She appeared in several of silver prints by Huffman, and they are now part of the collection of the Princeton Library.[12] Her photo is featured on the cover of The Spirit of Indian Women magazine.[13]
^"Women warriors". Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office. June 25, 2020. Archived from the original on October 4, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020. Pretty Nose fought with the Cheyenne/Arapaho detachment (at Little Bighorn)
