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Crow Indians by D.F. Barry. This may be the only photograph of Half Yellow Face, possibly the man wearing the cavalry coat.[1]
Half Yellow Face (or Ischu Shi Dish[2] in the Crow language) (1830? to 1879?) was the leader of the six Crow Scouts for George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry during the 1876 campaign against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.[3][4] Half Yellow Face led the six Crow scouts as Custer advanced up the Rosebud valley and crossed the divide to the Little Bighorn valley, and then as Custer made the fateful decision to attack the large Sioux-Cheyenne camp which precipitated the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. At this time, the other Crow Scouts witnessed a conversation between Custer and Half Yellow Face. Half Yellow Face made a statement to Custer (speaking through the interpreter, Mitch Boyer) that was poetically prophetic, at least for Custer: "You and I are going home today by a road we do not know".[4][5]
Half Yellow Face fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn with Major Marcus Reno's troops and thus survived. During the battle he acted heroically to save his friend and fellow Crow Scout White Swan, who had been severely wounded. After the battle he devised a special travois to get White Swan to the steamer Far West so he could get medical care from the Army surgeon. He continued to scout for General John Gibbon after the battle. Tradition has it that he died about 1879 while pursuing Sioux who had stolen Crow horses. Because he died shortly after the battle, he is the least known of the six Crow scouts who went with Custer.
^"Half Yellow Face". Billings Gazette. 24 June 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
^"Half Yellow Face, Crow". American-Tribes.com. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
^Philbrick, Nathaniel (2010). The Last Stand. The Viking Press. pp. 168, 198, 316. ISBN 978-0-670-02172-7.
^ abDonovan, James (2008). A Terrible Glory. Little, Brown and Company. pp. 182, 198, 203, 212, 289–90. ISBN 978-0-316-06747-8.
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