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In 1864, Old Chief Smoke died and was placed on a scaffold near sight of his beloved Ft. Laramie and replaced by Chief Big Mouth. Chief Blue Horse, left, and Chief Big Mouth, Wágluȟe Band, Oglala Lakota. Twin sons of Old Chief Smoke. In 1864, Old Chief Smoke died and was placed on a scaffold near sight of his beloved Ft. Laramie.
Chief Red Fox (Lakota: Tokála Luta, also known as Chief William Red Fox; June 11, 1870 – March 1, 1976) [1] was an Oglala Lakota Sioux performer, actor, and Sioux Indian rights advocate, born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Dakota Territory. He was a nephew of famed Sioux war leader, Crazy Horse. Chief William Red Fox was considered an ...
After the Húŋkpa’ti′la's headman Stone Knife's death in 1797, Old Man Smoke was the head chief of one of the major, prominent and most dominant and largest seven Lakota divisions: the Teton Húŋkpa’ti′la (The Camp at the End of the Circle), later on, better known as the Oglala Lakota Sioux Nation from around 1797–1800 to 1864.
His mother, Walks as She Thinks, was an Oglala Lakota and his father, Lone Man, was a Brulé Lakota leader. [4] They came from two of the seven major Lakota divisions. As was traditional among the matrilineal Lakota, in which the children belonged to the mother's clan and people, Red Cloud was mentored as a boy by his maternal uncle, Chief Old ...
Little Wound (c. 1835–Winter 1899; Lakota: Tȟaópi Čík’ala) was an Oglala Lakota chief. Following the death of his brother Bull Bear II in 1865 he became leader of the Kuinyan branch of the Kiyuksa band (Bear people). [1]
Flying Hawk (Oglala Lakota: Čhetáŋ Kiŋyáŋ; March 1854 – December 24, 1931), also known as Moses Flying Hawk, was an Oglala Lakota warrior, historian, educator and philosopher. Flying Hawk's life chronicles the history of the Oglala Lakota people through the 19th and early 20th centuries, as he fought to deflect the worst effects of ...
Chief Leonard Crow Dog, a renowned spiritual leader and Native American rights activist who fought for sovereignty, language preservation and religious freedom, has died at age 78. Crow Dog ...
Red Shirt (Oglala Lakota: Ógle Ša in Standard Lakota Orthography) (c. 1847 – January 4, 1925) was an Oglala Lakota chief, warrior and statesman. Red Shirt supported Crazy Horse during the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 and the Ghost Dance Movement of 1890, and was a Lakota delegate to Washington in 1880. Red Shirt surrendered with Crazy Horse ...