Dog Soldiers of the Cheyenne
In the movie She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , as John Wayne and his men try to figure out which tribe was behind the killing of travelers at a stage station, a scout gives his opinion that the arrow they're examining belonged to a Cheyenne Dog Soldier. Cheyenne warriors were a constant nemesis to United States troops patrolling the American west, and vice versa. The Dog Soldiers or Dog Men, one of their elite military forces, were their special ops. Cheyenne society recognize two traditional forms of governments, the Council of Forty-Four, and the six military societies. The Council included four chiefs from each of the ten Cheyenne bands, plus four responsible elders. The heads of the military societies were responsible for leading their men in battle, maintaining order and discipline among their men and the tribe as a whole, and advising in decisions regarding war. The Dog Soldiers were known as the most aggressive and most effective of the societies, recogni...