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Native American award for honor.


Yggdrazil

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After the Fetteman Massacre along the Bozemen trail across Lodge Trail Ridge the relief column approached the massacre site to witness the Sioux and Cheyenne scalping and mutilating the bodies of the 80 men in Fetterman's force with the exception of one private. Adolph Metzer was face up to the sun,with a buffalo hide covering the body, not scalped. This was the Native American way to honor bravery.Metzer had shot off all his ammunition and was using his bugle as a club and cost the Sioux and Cheyenne dearly.And for this bravery the Sioux and Cheyenne honored him in death. Honorable warriors of the plain, giving an enemy the same honors as they gave their honored dead.

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