User:Duff/Twisted Hair

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Twisted Hair was head chief of the Banattees. He was shot, either by Red Wolf or by Joseph Meek. This repaired a rift between the Shoshoni tribes caused by the 1836 murder by arrow of Mountain Lamb by a Banattee brave. Mountain Lamb was Red Wolf's daughter and Joe Meeks wife. Walking Rock, loyal to Red Wolf, succeeded him as chief in 1838, taking over the Mounted Paiutes south to the Carson River Country...