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Leonard Crow Dog was born on August 18, 1942, into a Sicangu Lakota family on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. [1] [3]: 19 He was a descendant of a traditional family of medicine men and leaders. The name Crow Dog is a poor translation of Kȟaŋǧí Šuŋkmánitu (lit. ' 'crow-coyote' '). His parents believed he would be a healer ...
Raymond Yellow Thunder (January 1, 1921 – February 13, 1972) was an Oglala Lakota man, born in Kyle, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was killed in Gordon, Nebraska. His death became notable as an example of a racially motivated assault against a Native American, as he was murdered by four white men who had bragged ...
A police investigation is underway after the family of a Lakota man said staff members at a Colorado hospital cut the 65-year-old’s hair without permission.
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
The Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal was a United States political scandal exposed in 2005; it related to fraud perpetrated by political lobbyists Jack Abramoff, Ralph E. Reed Jr., Grover Norquist and Michael Scanlon on Native American tribes who were seeking to develop casino gambling on their reservations.
The United States then declared the Lakota as hostile, which started the Black Hills War. [12] The war included the Battle of the Rosebud, the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Battle of Slim Buttes, among others. The war ended in 1877. Crow Dog fought in this war, while the man he later killed, Spotted Tail, did not. [13]
However, warriors of the Two Kettle Lakota secured their release in 1863. [4] In 1865, Struck-By-the-Ree testified at hearings of the Doolittle Commission, which investigated fraud among Indian agents. He reported that agents routinely skimmed goods from stores purchased with Indian annuity money and that Native people were illegally forced to ...
Among them was a man prospecting nearby with a metal detector and three young men from Wichita who so revere the view and the “foreshadowing” image that they come here every time they are in town.