Gregg LAMEBULL

Greg Lamebull-Cheyenne/Suhtia Dog Soldier

Hodiwuh’vea (Lamebull)

Greg Lamebull was born in Kingfisher Oklahoma and raised in a traditional Cheyenne home West of the town of Kingfisher on the Lamebull allotment by his grandparents Gilbert and Lula Lamebull, and his mother Ella Lamebull, who was also known as a protector of lands and active in the American Indian Movement in the 1960’s and 70’s.  

His grandparents took him shortly after the death of his father and raised him to learn the traditional ways of the Cheyenne, teaching him language and ceremony at a young age.  During his time with the elders Lamebull attended Cheyenne and Suhtia ceremonies eventually entering the ceremonial way of life and becoming a ceremonial priest among the tribe.

Lamebull became a member of the known Cheyenne Dog Soldier Warrior Society eventually taking the position of headsman.  Being a leader and warrior of his tribe understands the importance of defending the sacred ways of his people and lives the life of a warrior looking after and taking care of the needs of the Cheyenne/Suhtia people.  Climbing his way through the ranks and becoming a headsman he earned the name of his great, great grandfather Hodiwuh’vea, Lamebull.

The name Lamebull comes from the Suhtia medicine man Lamebull who was born in Montana in the early 1800’s also serving as a prominent Dog Soldier warrior, artist and known medicine man among the Suhtia and was one of few sacred bundle keepers of his people. 

Now Lamebull is the Indigenous Studies teacher in the Sovereign Community School in Edmond Oklahoma and serves as the Dean of Students.  He also works outside the school and spends much of his time with tribal youth throughout Indian country with the Cheyenne and Arapaho and all surrounding youth teaching traditional skills, teachings traditions, tribal art, and conducting ceremonial sweat lodges for many of his students and parents.  He has one very important quote he gives to his students in the classroom, “Make good ancestors”. 

Lamebull has attended many protests throughout the country and has organized many marches and memorials like the Sand Creek Massacre, the Washita Massacre and spent a great deal at the Standing Rock NO DAPL protest in North Dakota doing his part and taking a stand against the government and the greed of the dominant society.  

His strict upbringing about the Cheyenne has given him strong beliefs and now serves his people as a tribal historian and instructor in the ceremonial lodges in both Oklahoma and Montana carrying the teachings of several respected mentors and strives to pass on the ways to the generations that follow. 

The needs of the indigenous are the sole purpose of his life and strives every day to reconnect the lost generations back to their cultures and traditions and is a proud member of the movement and serves as a spokesman of the LANDBACK MVMT.  He stands for the those who cannot fight, for those who have lost the way, he stands for all that is sacred and will live the life of a warrior until his last breath, until he is here no more.