By David Humphreys Miller. Colored pencil and crayon on tinted art paper, drawn from life c. 1940, unsigned. 11"x8". At the suggestion of Chief Henry Oscar One Bull, David Miller sought out One Elk in the remote village of Bullhead, some thirty miles northwest of Little Eagle. He was 24 during the Little Big Horn, where he was one of Black Moon's Fox Warriors. His group was engaged in fighting with Custer's command. In 1890, One Elk was among the group of Indian police that killed Sitting Bull. "Since we police were all Hunkpapas of Sitting Bull's own tribe, we later felt ashamed for having killed him," he told Miller. "But it was the agent McLaughlin who gave us whiskey and told us to bring in Sitting Bull - dead or alive, preferably dead."

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