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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:29:56 EST
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A google search for "Chief Has No Horses" turned up this:
140.127.190.97/indian/indian/ final%20reports/852342nfinal/shoshoni-4.html
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA
"Thunder Over Ochoho" - "Lightning Strikes" Vol III
"The ground you steal is the blood, the flesh, the bones of my people. You
will have to plow deep to find the earth ... the upper crust is dead
Shoshoni."
Has No Horse
Fort Harney, August 24, 1868
Roaming the lush foothills and timbered ridges of eastern Oregon were
numerous bands of Shoshoni Indians known and feared as the Snake war tribes. These
proud mountain people were uniting under the leadership of the war chief Has
No Horse, and backed by such men as Broken Knife, Big Man, Pony Blanket and
War Spirit.
Soon Has No Horse's dog soldiers would be recognized as the best light
cavalry the United States army had yet encountered. Oregon Territory had been
studiously but ineffectively trying to ignore this grim reality since 1857, the
year the Shoshoni formed the Paviotso Confederacy and graduated from sporadic,
uncoordinated raids into concentrated hostility.
The Shoshoni who came forward with proposals for action were followed by
those who did not know which way to turn. These followers believed that their
chosen leaders possessed supernatural powers which made them indestructible.
Bullet proof or not, the war chiefs would stall settlement of the Ochoco for
another decade.
In 1858, Wolf Dog, head chief of the Snake war tribes, and his military
commanders declared full scale war against the American invaders with every
intention of winning ... or dying.
They died.
12/22/2005, writes:
Hi, Does anyone out there know of Chief Ochiho a Shoshoni who in his older
years live at Ft.Bidwell, Ca? I have a picture of my Grandparents Dora
Platt Kafader and Edward Kafader with Ochiho and his wife Poker Jenney, taken
about 1904 at Bidwell. They had been cutting wood helping to get Ochiho's
winter wood supply. In books writen by Gale Ontiko- Thunder Over the Ochoco He
was also called Has No Horse. Does anyone have anymore info. Thanks
Charlotte
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