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Lame White Man, or Vé'ho'énȯhnéhe (c. 1837 or 1839–1876), was a Cheyenne battle chief who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, and was killed there. He was the only Cheyenne chief to die in the battle. He was also known as Bearded Man (to the Lakota) and Mad Hearted Wolf (Hahk o ni).
One source states that he was a tribal chief and another that he was a warrior chief, but the sources agree that Lame White Man assumed a leading role in the fighting at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and was killed in the combat that took place around the Custer/Last Stand area of the battle.
ca.: 1837-1876. Lame White Man, Ve Ho Enóhnenehe was a Southern Cheyenne battle leader who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and was killed there. He was also known as Bearded Man to the Lakota. He was the husband of Twin Woman and father to Red Hat and Crane Woman.
Lame White Man was a Southern Cheyenne, who came north after Sand Creek with his small following. He then was a head soldier of the Northern Elkhorn Scraper society but still rated as a southern council chief. His name was variously translated as Lame White Man, Walking White Man, Crippled White Man, or Broken White Leg.
Lame White Man died during the attack. Picture 19a--Pate's "Lame White Man's Charge." Picture 20 looks east--Some soldiers made it back to Company L and even Company I which was held in reserve on the opposite side of Battle Ridge. These headstones are of Company C.
Stands in Timber, a grandson of Lame White Man, who was killed at the Little Bighorn, was educated at the Haskell Institute, a school for Indians in Lawrence, Kansas, and part of his dedication to the history of his people is the result of hearing white men’s versions of events that contradicted what the Indians knew.
Among the Cheyenne who participated in the battle was Lame White Man, born a Southern Cheyenne but living among the Northern Cheyenne, and Wooden Leg, who was just 18 years of age at the battle. After continued fighting against the U.S. Army in 1876 and 1877, many Northern Cheyennes were placed on reservations in Nebraska.
