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Post by boris on Oct 2, 2012 10:00:14 GMT -5
Hello,
My name is Boris and I am new here. I so happy to find you- this forum is GREAT! You are truly experts in this filed, the pictures are amazing and all the information here is so precious! Congratulations!!
I wonder if you can help me find more information about a Lakota chief: Good Bear (Mato Waste). I searched the web and I found some info but, of course, there are more people with this name so I am little confused. In fact the only sure thing I know is that he died at Wounded Knee! His son and wife were also killed there. Now the things that I am not sure about:
He may be Hunkpapa and may be the father of the boy that was rescued by One Bull during the Little Bighorn battle (but may be this is another Good Bear?)
I found another Good Bear- miniconjou?
Another (or the same) signed some treaties with the US army-if this the same person?
I don’t know if he participated in the battle of Little Bighorn or not?
Sorry for the mixed information that I am giving you. I’ll really appreciate if some of you can help me find the information about of this man. Some pictures will be great too (if they exist, of course). Thank you very much!
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Post by grahamew on Oct 2, 2012 12:21:36 GMT -5
 From Cowan's Auction site: "anonymous, with penciled inscription on verso "Good Bear"/ A Chief of the Hunkpapa/ band of "Sioux Tribe"/ by Leslie Smith:/ At Standing Rock, D.T./ Room 10, 1884. Leslie Smith, Captain First Infantry, Bvt. Major, U.S. Army participated in the signing of the 1877 Agreement with the Sioux nation, Northern Arapaho and Cheyenne. This treaty reduced the size of the Sioux reservation, adding infrastructure and schooling for American Indian children." www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/past-item.aspx?ItemId=57518 |
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Post by boris on Oct 2, 2012 21:35:03 GMT -5
Thank you, grahamew! Great photo!
Do you or somebody know anything more about Mato Waste?
When he was born, did he participate in Little Bighorn battle or other battles...anything?
Thanks again!
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Post by carlo on Jan 12, 2013 19:19:26 GMT -5
Boris, Good Bear, which is the correct translation of his name, is actually better known as Pretty Bear, ca. 1821-1883. He was a headman in the Meat Necklace band of the Hunkpapas, led by Crow King. From Ephriam in the Sitting Bull Surrender Ledger we know that he later joined Charging Thunder's band when he settled on Standing Rock reservation. He did take part in the LBH fight, but at age 55 he would have left most of the fighting to his younger comrades. There is some unclarity if he was wounded there or not; Good Bear Boy was of course wounded at the start of the fight and it seems Good Bear Boy is sometimes named just Good/Pretty Bear, adding to the confusion. As Hardorff noted, Good Bear may have been the father of Good Bear Boy, but no conclusive evidence is available to confirm this. He is at least not listed on the Sitting Bull Surrender Ledger. At the end of the Great Sioux War Good Bear fled to Canada with Sitting Bull and remained there until his surrender in 1881. He was married to a woman named Oglala Woman (b. ca. 1825) and had a daughter named Makes A Nation (b. ca. 1868). Good Bear also participated in the Battle of Rainy Buttes, June 1858, where Sitting Bull's father was killed. During the running fight he got into a hand-to-hand tussle with a Crow warrior and his horse received two gun shot wounds in the left flank. The Hunkpapa Good Bear and the one killed at Wounded Knee were not the same person; note that this name was quite common. If you have located information on another Miniconjou man named Good Bear (the one who signed the 1877 treaty?), then this may be the Wounded Knee victim because of the Miniconjou connection w/Big Foot. (Btw, there is also a Good Bear who signed the 1865 Fort Sully treaty, but he was a Blackfoot Lakota. See: digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/vol2/treaties/bla0898.htm. There are two additional Pretty Bears listed on the SB Surrender Ledger, one a Blackfoot Lakota and one a Miniconjou.) Carlo |
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Post by gregor on Jan 13, 2013 4:24:31 GMT -5
Wow Carlo,
a big THANK YOU for this Information. I always wondered who this Good Bear was, but didn't find comprehensive Information on him. Now I learned more.
Thx - Gregor
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Post by boris on Jan 18, 2013 9:57:00 GMT -5
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Post by carlo on Jan 19, 2013 2:41:01 GMT -5
Actually, Boris, these drawings are from the southern Oglala Pretty Bear / Good Bear, a brother of Two Crows. As mentioned, it was a very common name! The drawings were collected in 1874 from the Kiyuksa Oglala war leader Tall Bear along the South Platte, part of Two Lance's southern Oglala band, to which this Good Bear also belonged. For details on this band, see discussion here: amertribes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=oglala1&action=display&thread=886Carlo |
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Post by boris on Jan 21, 2013 10:10:25 GMT -5
Thank you, Carlo!
Now things are much more clear to me!
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