31 Facts About Indian Chief

1. Indian Chief formed a new goal—to race on the flat, expansive Bonneville Salt Flats.

2. Indian Chief lunged with his bayonet, stabbing Crazy Horse in the back, near the left kidney.

3. Indian Chief had come to the Spotted Tail Agency, he said, because of all the bad talk at the Red Cloud Agency.

4. Indian Chief wanted it to be at a grassy spot on Beaver Creek where he had camped many times.

5. Indian Chief Dog and another old friend, Little Big Man, rode on either side of him.

6. Indian Chief led his people back up the Tongue and then over to the Little Powder.

7. Indian Chief would not come, but sometimes he would tell the people what to do.

8. Indian Chief had 2,200 soldiers and more than 400 Indian scouts, including 60 Sioux from the agencies.

9. Indian Chief became a regular leader of large war parties of mixed Lakota and Cheyenne warriors.

10. The Big Indian Chief had mainly been offered for sidecar use, but was popular with solo riders as well.

11. Indian Chief was introduced for 1922 to replace the Powerplus, although the Powerplus was continued under the "Standard" name until 1923.

12. Indian Chief is a motorcycle that was built by the Hendee Manufacturing Company and the subsequent Indian Motocycle Company from 1922 to the end of the company's production in 1953.

13. Indian Chief based his account on an interview with Crazy Horse's rival, Little Big Man, who was present at Crazy Horse's arrest and wounding.

14. Indian Chief was taken to the adjutant's office, where he was tended by the assistant post surgeon at the post, Dr Valentine McGillycuddy, and died late that night.

15. Indian Chief knocked the pistol upward as No Water fired, deflecting the bullet to Crazy Horse's upper jaw.

16. Indian Chief was generous to the poor, the elderly, and children.

17. Indian Chief placed the stone behind the horse's ear so that the medicine from his vision quest and Horn Chips would combine—he and his horse would be one in battle.

18. Indian Chief was given a medicine bundle to protect him for life.

19. Indian Chief was brought back and was taken to the West in the direction of the wakiyans.

20. Indian Chief was shot in the face by No Water when Little Big Man tried to hold Crazy Horse back to prevent a fight from breaking out, and he was held back by one of his tribesmen—according to some reports, Little Big Man himself—when he was stabbed by a bayonet the night he died.

21. Indian Chief led his small party of warriors to the village and rescued it.

22. Indian Chief came across a Miniconjou Lakota village under attack by Crow warriors.

23. Indian Chief saved Crazy Horse's life at least once and was with him when he died.

24. Indian Chief took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people.

25. Indian Chief was a delegate in charge of the Cherokees who went to Washington with Sam Hosutin in December 1831.

26. Indian Chief presided over the Powhatan empire at the time the English established the Jamestown Colony.

27. Indian Chief gathered 250 lodges of Sioux and Cheyennes in the cause, which provided him with about 500 warriors, and carried on continuous guerrilla warfare along the length of the Bozeman Trail.

28. Indian Chief started as a cowboy and then performed with the Wild West show before getting involved with movies.

29. Indian Chief was an integral part to gathering the tribes as part of the Iroquois Confederacy.

30. Indian Chief was involved in the War of 1812 and integral to the Black Hawk war.

31. Indian Chief planned to meet the heads of a number of state banks on Thursday.