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White Swan

White Swan was a scout of the Crow tribe, who were a branch of the Sioux. Separation, however, took place over a factional dispute between two chiefs, and White Swan served with Reno in the Custer campaign against the Sioux in 1876, which met with such disaster at Little Bighorn, July 25th of that year. In the retreat he was wounded severely which made him a cripple for the remainder of his life. He died in the autumn of 1905 and was buried with military honors in the National cemetay on the Custer battlefield in Montana.