Son of the Morning Star

English

Alternative forms

• Son-of-the-morning-star, Son-of-the-Morning-Star

Etymology

Calque of Crow Ihkaléaxdaaka, from ihkaléaxa (“morning star”) +‎ dáaka (“child”).

Proper noun

Son of the Morning Star

1. The Crow name for George Armstrong Custer.
   • 1930, Frank B. Linderman, quoting Plenty Coups, Plenty-Coups: Chief of the Crows, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, published 1962, page 175:

     He told me that Hairy-moccasin, a Crow Wolf, had first discovered the big enemy village and told Son-of-the-morning-star, and that he, Half-yellow-face, had then tried to stop Son-of-the-morning-star from attacking it.

   • 1956, Mary Ellen Ryan, “Custer’s Hunting Horse”, in The Chronicles of Oklahoma, volume XXXIV, number 1, page 332:

     He [Hunting Horse] pictured a snorting, wild buffalo he had cornered in a shallow cave during his last hunt with “Sun^[sic]-Of-The-Morning-Star.”

   • 1995, Dennis W. Harcey, Brian R. Croone, Joe Medicine Crow, White-Man-Runs-Him: Crow Scout with Custer, Evanston Publishing, page 92:

     Custer, Son of the Morning Star, took an immediate liking to the Crows