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Post by carlo on Jun 23, 2012 16:16:29 GMT -5
In 'The Killing of Crazy Horse', Thomas Powers mentions on page 7 that He Dog "killed a Crow woman, sometime around 1870", but Powers unfortunately does not give a source for this.
Does anyone know whether this is correct and if so, what the source may be? I could not find a reference to it in the Hinman interviews.
Many thanks,
Carlo
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Post by kingsleybray on Jun 24, 2012 6:57:15 GMT -5
The source for Tom's statement is the Amos Bad Heart Bull picture history, Plate No. 252, p. 348 (A PICTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE OGLALA SIOUX, Helen Blish, Uni. Nebraska Press, 1967).
He Dog recalled that he was "so enraged at finding his fellow tribesmen so beset by the Crows that he did a thing he had never done before and never did again - he killed a woman." He struck her with the crow lance of the Crow Owners (he and Crazy Horse had just been invested as society lance owners). Fearles Bear (Mato Kagi Shni) struck the second coup with the Kit Fox society bow lance. This is all depicted in the drawing by He Dog's nephew Amos. It took place in the battle with the Crows, the Fight When They Chased Them Back to Camp, May 1870 (see my account in CRAZY HORSE, A LAKOTA LIFE, pp 138-139).
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Post by carlo on Jun 24, 2012 16:20:36 GMT -5
I wondered if it had anything to do with the entry for 1870 in the Red Horse Owner's / Fire Thunder's Oglala winter count group, which mentions an enemy woman killed while gathering wood, but the battle description by Amos Bad Heart Bull is indeed conclusive. I have yet to dive into that fascinating encounter more deeply.
Carlo
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