Kidnapped By Cheyenne Dog Soldiers | What It’s Like To Be Captured By The Most Brutal Tribe!

Kidnapped By Cheyenne Dog Soldiers | What It’s Like To Be Captured By The Most Brutal Tribe! Captured by unknown people and great warriors, confused as to why you are here and you know that the worst things awaits you! What’s it like to be kidnapped by warriors who are best at killing? At that time, there were no rules or Geneva Conventions to protect the rights of prisoners! No! Back then it was much worse than you can imagine! Tortured by the worst methods at that time, starved, beaten, psychologically destroyed, these are just some of the methods that were used back then! Some did not even live to the end to tell their story! There are numerous legends in native tribes’ history regarding disputes and bloodshed between different tribes! These battles were sometimes followed by bloodshed and tragedy, and kidnappings were frequently one of the ways tribes battled and reckoned with their opponents! The Dog Soldiers, also known as Dog Men, are one of six Cheyenne military groups. Beginning in the late 1830s, this society evolved into a separate, militaristic band that played a dominant role in Cheyenne resistance to the United States’ westward expansion in the present-day states of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, where the Cheyenne had settled in the early nineteenth century. After the cholera outbreak of 1849 killed about half of the Southern Cheyenne, many of the remaining Masikota band members joined the Dog Soldiers. It basically grew into its own band, occupying an area between the Northern and Southern Cheyenne. Its members frequently resisted the policies of peace leaders like Black Kettle. The majority of the band was slain in the Battle of Summit Springs in Colorado Territory in 1869 by US Army soldiers. The remaining Cheyenne societies shrank significantly and were considerably more secretive in their activities. The Dog Soldiers group has witnessed a resurrection in the twenty-first century in places like Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and Oklahoma’s Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. The Council of Forty-Four and the military societies, the Dog Soldiers, are the two primary organizations of traditional Cheyenne tribe authority. The Council of Forty-Four is a council of chiefs made up of four chiefs from each of the ten Cheyenne tribes, as well as four major or Old Man leaders who had previously served on the council with distinction. While chiefs are in charge of general governance of particular bands and the tribe as a whole, warrior society headmen are in charge of maintaining tribal discipline, managing tribal hunts and rites, and providing military leadership. Dog Soldiers have always been recognized as both very aggressive and effective soldiers. According to one myth, in combat, they would “pin“ themselves to a “chosen“ patch of land using an extremely long breech-clout “rear-apron“ and one of three “Sacred Arrows“ that they took into battle. #cheyennedogsoldiers #cheyenne #dogsoldiers