Stone Calf (1813-1863) was a Lakota Sioux medicine man from Colorado. Stone Calf was a respected elder of his tribe during the 1860s, developing a bond with the US Army lieutenant John Dunbar, who became a close friend of the tribe. Stone Calf was the one Dunbar approached for knowledge about Stands with a Fist, a white woman in the tribe who served as Dunbar's mediator, and Stone Calf revealed that she was in mourning for her late husband, who had been killed by the Pawnee not long earlier. Later, Stone Calf and the other civilians of the tribe equipped themselves with Dunbar's guns when the Pawnee attacked the Lakota camp in the absence of the Lakota war party of Chief Kicking Bird, but he was confused about how to use the gun. He later observed the battle from his horse and smiled at the sight of the Pawnee being repelled, but he was ambushed by the Pawnee warrior Sakuruta, stabbed in the back, and hacked at several times on the ground. Stone Calf's death was greatly mourned by the tribe, as he was one of the very few Lakota losses in the one-sided battle.
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