COMMANDER // 1800–1854
Conquering Bear
1 battle1 war
Lifespan
1800 – 1854
Active service 1854 — 1 battle across 1 war; first command at age 54.
Profile
Matȟó Wayúhi was a Brulé Lakota chief who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty (1851). He was killed in 1854 when troops from Fort Laramie entered his encampment to arrest a Sioux who had shot a cow belonging to a Mormon emigrant. All 30 troopers in the army detachment were killed, in what would be called the Grattan massacre or "the Mormon Cow War" according to Army Historian S.L.A. Marshall in his book Crimsoned Prairie. Little Thunder took over as chief after his death.
Battles (1)
1854
Grattan massacreSioux Wars · Lakota