Minnie Hollow Wood (
c. 1856 – 1930s) was a
Lakota woman who earned the right to wear a
war bonnet because of her valor in combat against the U.S. Cavalry at the
Battle of Little Big Horn.[1][2][3]: 4:37 At one time, she was the only woman in her tribe entitled to wear a war bonnet.[4]
Minnie Hollow Wood lived on the Cheyenne reservation in Montana and became an informant of author and ethnologist
Thomas Bailey Marquis. Marquis suggested that she was a "favorite" of Miles while she was a prisoner at Fort Keogh.[6]
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ab"LBH Warriors"(PDF). Friends Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield. April 26, 2014. p. 21.
Archived(PDF) from the original on December 22, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2006.