Gene Hackman’s portrayal of this person inspired Paul Magid to write a three-volume biography about him. John Gregory Bourke published firsthand experiences “on the border” with this person, who led a starvation march named for its subsistence on horse meat. This person agreed to travel into enemy territory for a meeting at the “Canyon of the Funnels” captured in a photograph by C. S. Fly. This general was the defendant of a landmark 1879 case brought by a Ponca chief, which afforded basic constitutional rights to Native Americans. Custer’s Last Stand was compounded by the actions of Buffalo Calf Road Woman to rally against this general’s offensive at the Battle of the Rosebud. This general was the nominal defendant of the Standing Bear case. For 10 points, disagreement over what general’s empathetic tactics in the Apache Wars caused his demotion in favor of rival Nelson A. Miles? ■END■
ANSWER: George Crook [accept Standing Bear v. Crook]
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