{"id":21866,"date":"2022-08-02T18:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=21866"},"modified":"2022-08-02T19:01:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T19:01:38","slug":"conte-lakota-chief-roman-nose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/sioux-mythology-lakota-dakota-nakota\/tale-lakota-chief-novel-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakota Tale: Chief Roman Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/sioux-mythology-lakota-dakota-nakota\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSioux mythology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/ChiefRomanNoseLosesHisMedicine-Lakota.html\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lakota<\/strong> or Titunwans (&quot;people of the prairie&quot;) or Tetons in English (traditional Dakota\/Wyoming territory) was originally one of the seven council fires. Here is their tale: Chief Roman Nose loses his Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Chief Roman Nose loses his Medicine\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/sioux-mythology-lakota-dakota-nakota\/tale-lakota-chief-novel-nose\/#Chief-Roman-Nose-loses-his-Medicine\" >Chief Roman Nose loses his Medicine<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chief-Roman-Nose-loses-his-Medicine\"><\/span>Chief Roman Nose loses his Medicine<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Tea <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/sioux-mythology-lakota-dakota-nakota\/\">Lakota<\/a> and the Shahiyela \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-siouans-2127\/\">Sioux<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/cheyenne-arapaho-mythology\/\">Cheyenne<\/a> &#8211; have<br \/>\nbeen good friends for a long time. Often they have fought shoulder<br \/>\nto shoulder. They fought the white soldiers on the Bozeman Road,<br \/>\nwhich we Indians called the Thieves&rsquo; Road because it was built to<br \/>\nsteal our land. They fought together on the Rosebud River, and the<br \/>\ntwo tribes united to defeat Custer in the big battle of the Little<br \/>\nBighorn. Even now in a barroom brawl, a Sioux will always come to<br \/>\nthe aid of a Cheyenne and vice versa. We Sioux will never forget<br \/>\nwhat brave fighters the Cheyenne used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Over a hundred years ago the Cheyenne had a famous war chief whom<br \/>\nthe whites called Roman Nose. He had the fierce, proud face of a<br \/>\nhawk, and his deeds were legendary. He always rode into battle with<br \/>\na long war-bonnet trailing behind him. It was thick with eagle feathers,<br \/>\nand each stood for a brave deed, a coup counted on the enemy.Roman<br \/>\nNose had a powerful war medicine, a magic stone he carried tied<br \/>\nto his hair on the back of his head. Before a fight he sprinkled<br \/>\nhis war shirt with sacred gopher dust and painted his horse with<br \/>\nhailstone patterns. All these things, especially the magic stone,<br \/>\nmade him bullet proof. Of course he could be slain by a lance, a<br \/>\nknife, or a tomahawk, but not with a gun. And nobody ever got the<br \/>\nbetter of Roman Nose in hand-to-hand combat.<\/p>\n<p>There was one thing about Roman Nose&rsquo;s medicine: he was not allowed<br \/>\nto touch anything made of metal when eating. He had to use horn<br \/>\nor wooden spoons and eat from wooden or earthenware bowls. His meat<br \/>\nhad to be cooked in a buffalo&rsquo;s pouch or in a clay pot, not in a<br \/>\nwhite man&rsquo;s iron kettle.<\/p>\n<p>One day Roman Nose received word of a battle going on between white<br \/>\nsoldiers and Cheyenne warriors. The fight had been swaying back<br \/>\nand forth for over a day. &quot;Come and help us; we need you&quot;<br \/>\nwas the message. Roman Nose called his warriors together. They had<br \/>\na hasty meal, and Roman Nose forgot about the laws of his medicine.<br \/>\nUsing a metal spoon and a white man&rsquo;s steel knife, he ate buffalo<br \/>\nmeat cooked in an iron kettle.<\/p>\n<p>The white soldiers had made a fort on a sand spit island in the<br \/>\nmiddle of a river. They were shooting from behind and they had a<br \/>\nnew type of rifle which was better and could shoot faster and further<br \/>\nthan the Indians&rsquo; arrows and old muzzle-loaders.<\/p>\n<p>The Cheyenne were hurling themselves against the soldiers in attack<br \/>\nafter attack, but the water in some spots came up to the saddles<br \/>\nof their horses and the river bottom was slippery. They could not<br \/>\nride up quickly on the enemy, and they faced murderous fire. Their<br \/>\nattacks were repulsed, their losses heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Nose prepared for the fight by putting on his finest clothes,<br \/>\nwar shirt, and leggings. He painted his best horse, with hailstone<br \/>\ndesigns, and he tied the pebble which made him bulletproof into<br \/>\nhis hair at the back of his head.<\/p>\n<p>But an old warrior stepped up to him and said: &quot;You have eaten<br \/>\nfrom a iron kettle with a metal spoon and a steel knife. Your medicine<br \/>\nis powerless; you must not fight today. Purify yourself for four<br \/>\ndays so that your medicine will be good again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But the fight is today, not in four days,&quot; said Roman<br \/>\nNose. &quot;I must lead my warriors. I will die, but only the mountains<br \/>\nand the rocks are forever.&quot; He put on his great war-bonnet,<br \/>\nsang his death song, and then charged. As he rode up to the whites&rsquo;<br \/>\ncottonwood breastwork, a bullet hit him in the chest. He fell from<br \/>\nhis horse; his body was immediately lifted by is warriors, and the<br \/>\nCheyenne retreated with their dead chief. To honor him in death,<br \/>\nto give him a fitting burial, was more important than to continue<br \/>\nthe battle. All night the soldiers in their fort could hear the<br \/>\nCheyenne&rsquo;s mourning songs, the keening of the women. They too knew<br \/>\nthat the great chief Roman Nose was dead. He had died as he had<br \/>\nlived. He had shown that sometimes it is more important to act like<br \/>\na chief than to live to a great old age.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sioux Mythology Wiki The Lakotas or Titunwans (\u201cprairie people\u201d) or Tetons in English (traditional Dakota\/Wyoming territory) constituted \u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3889,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21866","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21870,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21866\/revisions\/21870"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}