Little Robe

Born in 1828 to the Southern Cheyenne tribe, Tak-kee-o-mah, or Little Robe, was raised a warrior, his skills honed in combat with traditional enemies, the Ute and the  Pawnee tribes. In his twenties, Little Robe survived a battle with the Pawnees on the Beaver River of Kansas where many of their braves and Chief Alights-on-a-Cloud were killed. But the seminal event in Little Robe’s life, after becoming a chief in 1863, was the Sand Creek Massacre of November 29, 1864. Cheyenne elders craft