Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1793 - 1999. Accounts of a Council of Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux
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Red Cloud, 1822-1909
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Red Cloud was born close to the forks of the Platte River, near the modern-day city of North Platte, Nebraska. His mother, Walks as She Thinks, was an Oglala Lakota and his father, Lone Man, was a Brulé Lakota leader. 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, Old Chief Smoke (1774–1864). Old Chief Smoke played a m...
Young Man Afraid of His Horse, 1836-1893
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The name MAN AFRAID OF HIS HORSES is the inaccurate translation of the Teton phrase "Tasunka Kokipapi," which means, “the man of whose horse we are afraid.” It also has been translated to "They Fear Even His Horse." This name was given to Young Man's father, Old Man, and passed down to him. The name implied that the man was so fierce in battle that just the sight of his horse brought fear to others. Old Man Afraid of His Horses was the head chief of the Oglala in 1854 and the leader of the Hu...
