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{{Infobox Native American leader
| name            = White Man Runs Him
| image           = Image:whitemanrunshim.jpg
| image_size      = 225px
| caption         = [[Edward S. Curtis]] portrait of White Man Runs Him, c. 1908
| tribe           = [[Crow tribe|Crow]]
| lead            = 
| birth_date      = [[circa|c.]] 1858
| birth_place     = [[Lodge Grass, Montana]]
| death_date      = June 2, 1929
| death_place     = [[Crow Indian Reservation]]
| predecessor     = 
| successor       = 
| native_name     = '''''Mahr-Itah-Thee-Dah-Ka-Roosh'''''
| nicknames       = White Buffalo That Turns Around
| known_for       = [[Crow Scout|Scout]] for [[George Armstrong Custer]] at the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]]
| death_cause     = 
| resting_place   = [[Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument|Little Bighorn Battlefield]]
| rp_coordinates  = 
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| spouse          = Pretty Medicine Pipe, d. Apr. 2, 1943
| partner         = 
| children        = 
| parents         = Bull Chief, Offers Her Red Cloth
| relations       = Stepgrandfather of [[Joe Medicine Crow]]; grandfather of [[Pauline Small]]; great-grandfather of [[Janine Pease]]
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'''White Man Runs Him''' (Mahr-Itah-Thee-Dah-Ka-Roosh) - ([[circa|c.]] 1858 &ndash; June 2, 1929) was a [[Crow Scout]] serving with [[George Armstrong Custer]]’s 1876 expedition against the [[Lakota people|Sioux]] and [[Northern Cheyenne]] that culminated in the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]].

==Early life==
Also known as ''White Buffalo That Turns Around'', he was born into the Big Lodge Clan of the [[Crow Nation]], the son of Bull Chief and Offers Her
Red Cloth. At the age of about 18, he volunteered to serve as a scout with the [[United States Army]] on April 10, 1876, in its campaign against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne, traditional enemies of the Crow.

==Service as a scout==
White Man Runs Him "enlisted on April 10, 1876 at the [[Crow Agency, Montana|Crow Agency, Montana Territory]], for six months in the [[7th Infantry Regiment (United States)|7th United States Infantry]]." On June 21st, 1876 he was transferred to Custer’s [[7th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|Seventh U.S. Cavalry]], as part of a contingent of six Crow warrior/scouts, including [[Goes Ahead]], [[Curley]], [[Hairy Moccasin]], [[White Swan, Crow Indian Scout|White Swan]], and [[Half Yellow Face, Crow Indian|Half Yellow Face]] (leader/chief of the scouts). He scouted for [[Lieutenant|Lt.]] [[Charles Varnum]]’s column in the days preceding the battle. In the early morning hours of June 25, 1876, he and other crow scouts accompanied Varnum and Custer to the Crow’s Nest, a high point on the Little Bighorn/Rosebud Creek divide, from which the [[Little Bighorn River|Little Bighorn valley]], could be viewed at a distance of about seventeen air miles.  The scouts could see indications of a large horse herd and the smoke of many morning fires, though the encampment itself was hidden from view on the valley floor.  The Crow scouts advised Custer that the encampment was very large. Custer prepared to attack, however. Custer was concerned that during the morning of the 25th of June, Sioux/Cheyenne warriors had detected the presence of his 650 man force, and if he did not promptly attack the village would scatter, thus denying the army the confrontation it sought with the Sioux/Cheyenne forces.

Convinced they were about to die in battle, the scouts took off their uniforms and donned Crow war clothing.  When Custer demanded to know why, they responded that they wished to die as warriors rather than soldiers. Custer was angered by what he perceived as [[fatalism]] and relieved them from further service about an hour before engaging in the final battle. White Man Runs Him retired to a ridge along with Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, and Strikes That Bear (an Arikara Scout) to join [[Major]] [[Marcus Reno]]. They were engaged briefly in battle but would survive the engagement. He then joined [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[John Gibbon|John Gibbon's]] column.

==Later life ==
[[File:Crow Scouts 1913.jpg|thumb|right|[[Crow Scouts]] visit Custer Battlefield about 1913. Left to right: White-Man-Runs-Him, [[Hairy Moccasin]], [[Curly|Curley]], [[Goes Ahead]]]]
After the battle, he lived on the Crow reservation near [[Lodge Grass, Montana]]. He was the stepgrandfather of [[Joe Medicine Crow]], a Crow tribal historian who used his grandfather’s stories as a basis for his later histories of the battle and grandfather to [[Pauline Small]], the first woman elected to office in the [[Crow Nation|Crow Tribe of Indians]].  His status as a Little Big Horn survivor made him a minor celebrity late in life, and he even made a [[cameo appearance]] in the 1927 [[Hollywood]] movie, "Red Raiders". 

White Man Runs Him lived the remainder of his life on the [[Crow Indian Reservation|Crow Reservation]] in the [[Big Horn Mountains|Big Horn Valley]] region of [[Montana]], just a few miles from the site of the famous battle. He died there in 1929. 

== Legacy ==
White Man Runs Him was buried in the cemetery at the [[Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument|Little Big Horn Battlefield]]. "His account of the battle is told in the work "The Custer Myth" by C. Graham, on pages 20 to 24," and also in ''It Is a Good Day to Die: Indian Eyewitnesses Tell the Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.''

A [[slough]] near [[Lodge Grass, Montana]] is known as '''Baaishtashíilinkuluush Alaaxúa''', "Where Whiteman Runs Him Hid." A [[coulee]], '''Baaishtashíilinkuluush Isalasáh te''', which is named after him is also known as "Whiteman's Creek."

[[Image:Pauline Small.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Granddaughter [[Pauline Small]] on horseback. She carries the flag of the [[Crow Nation]].  As the first woman official, she is entitled to carry the flag during the [[Crow Fair]] Parade.]]

==See Also==
* [[White Swan, Crow Indian Scout]]
* [[Half Yellow Face, Crow Indian]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Harcey, Dennis; Croone, Brian R. White-Man-Runs-Him. Evanston Pub., Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A., 1995. (ISBN 1-879260-16-6)

== External links ==
* [http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/six/66_13.htm Photo of White Man Runs Him], The West, PBS
* [http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/images/soldiergraves/whitemanrunshimupton.jpg Photo of White Man Runs Him], from Custer's Last Fight: Remembered by Participants at the Tenth Anniversary June 25, 1886 and the Fiftieth Anniversary June 25, 1926, by Richard Upton

{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME              = White Man Runs Him
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Mahr-Itah-Thee-Dah-Ka-Roosh, White Buffalo That Turns Around
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Crow scout
| DATE OF BIRTH     = c. 1858
| PLACE OF BIRTH    = Lodge Grass, Montana
| DATE OF DEATH     = June 2, 1929
| PLACE OF DEATH    = Crow Reservation
}}
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[[Category:People of the Great Sioux War of 1876]]
[[Category:Native American United States military personnel]]
[[Category:People from Montana]]
[[Category:United States Army Indian Scouts]]