Ehyophsta

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Ehyophsta (Cheyenne for "Yellow-Haired Woman") was a Cheyenne woman who fought in the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, and also fought the Shoshone that same year, where she counted coup against one enemy and killed another. She fought the Shoshone again in 1869. She was also a member of a secret society composed exclusively of Cheyenne women. She was the daughter of Chief Stands-In-Timber and the niece of Bad Faced Bull. She died in 1915.