Bull Ghost

[ladonna]

Tatanka Wanagi-Bull Ghost took part in defending his people at the massacre at White Stone and battles of Dead Buffalo Lake, Stony Lake, Big Mound, Kill Deer Mountain which today are considered Civil War Battles in North Dakota. He was taken as Prisioner of War to Crow Creek, when released from Prision he came with the Ihunktonwana, Hunkpatina and Pabaska to the east side of the Missouri River across from where Standing Rock is Located today. This land was a part of their homelands before the battles when Chief Two Bear's father Bear Standing Growling had made camp before 1856 along the east side of the Missouri River, the Cannon Ball and where today Fort Rice located. In 1880 Bull Ghost filed a petition to have his people be removed from Standing Rock to the Crow Creek reservation. Stated that the Hunkpapa and Shisapa were not his people. The chief from Two Bear, Big Head, Red Fish and other stood up and refused to move because this was their land before the battles. So a small group under Bullghost were allowed to leave but the rest of Ihunktonwana, Hunkpatina and Pabaska stayed on their homeland along the Missouri River. In 1918 they were promised food and money to the people if they touch the pen for the Black Hills they were tricked because they were told all the Sioux had already signed to give away the Black Hills so he touch the pen and was given a piece of cloth. He later learned he was fooled.
His descendant are on Crow Creek and Standing Rock today.
BullGhost married Hunkpatinawin at Killdeer before the battle because her husband and children died at the White Stone Massacre and she was the sister to Inkpaduta. Bullghost was a Sisseton who then became Pabaska then Hunkpatina.



Blue Spirit hereditary chief of the Sissetons.
Spouse:
Children:
Son: White Lodge b.
son: Chased by the Ree b.
Son: Black Hawk b.
Son: Black Leg b.
Son: Bull Ghost b. 1835
Son: Omaha killer


Tatanka Wanagi-Bull Ghost b. 1835 1st Spouse: Pazaahuwin-b. 1856 d. 6-22-1936
2nd Spouse: Hunkpatinawin- Yantonais Woman b. 1948 d. 12-13-1932 (Inkpaduta's sister)
3rd Spouse: Winyan b. 1848
Children
Daughter: Wipehinla-Woman’s hair b. 1866 Son: Cetanhowaste-Pretty Voice Hawk b. 1872 Son: Zitkalaluta- Red Bird b. 1874 Son: Wahpayatanka-Black Bird b. 1877 Daughter: Wagnuka- Bessie Bull Ghost b. 1880
Daughter: Path b. 1880
Son: Cankdiskahoyake-Wears the Hoop b. 1885
Son: Hiram B Bull Ghost b. 1890

Albert Herbert Antelope b. 1882 Spouse: Bessie Bullghost b. 1882
Children
Son: Ambrose Antelope b. 1908 Son: Nobel Antelope b. 1911 Daughter: Mamie Marie Antelope b. 1915 Son: Nobel Antelope b. 9-11-1925

Edwin Antelope b.1875 1st Spouse: Lottie Antelope b.1882 2nd Spouse: Angie Shoestring b. 1875 3rd Spouse: Julia b. 1891
Children Son: Levi Antelope b. 1922 Step-Son: Jerome Antelope b. 2-16-1913 Step-Son: Ambrose Antelope b. 4-1-1916

Wawokiya-Ignatius Antelope b. 1876 Spouse: Throws Away b. 1867
Children Adopted-son: Dobson Whitebird b. 1914

Ambrose Antelope
Spouse: Serphine

[Dietmar]

There are possibly several men with the name Bull´s Ghost.

This man was a Lower Yanktonai delegate from Grand River Agency in 1872, so he might be the Bull´s Ghost described by Ladonna above:


Bull´s Ghost by A. Gardner, 1872 (scan from SIRIS)


Bull´s Ghost by A. Gardner, 1872 (scan from the British Museum)


I have seen other portraits labelled Bull´s Ghost, that are actually showing White Ghost of Crow Creek.

[Dietmar]

After checking other possible portraits of Bull Ghost I am now more convinced that the 1872 delegate is indeed the Bull Ghost Ladonna speaks of.

White Ghost, leading chief at Crow Creek, and Bull Ghost aka Buffalo Ghost were photographed by Charles Milton Bell around 1880. These portraits have been mixed up often and even at the Smithsonian archives they are still confused.

Here is Buffalo Ghost by C.M. Bell, probably shortly after moving to Crow Creek. I believe you can see the same man as in the 1872 pictures:


Buffalo Ghost by Charles Milton Bell (SIRIS)


Buffalo Ghost by Charles Milton Bell (SIRIS)


Note that William Fuller painted Bull Ghost from the above Bell portrait:

amertribes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=artists&action=display&thread=19&page=1#1355427353


Here you find the debate on Bull Ghost´s Yanktonais wanting to move to Crow Creek in 1880:

www.welchdakotapapers.com/2012/01/fort-yates-agency-sioux-life-documents-1870-1939-copied-by-col-welch/#standing-rock-indians-deny-wanting-


... and sad news about the remains of Bull Ghost at Crow Creek:

groups.yahoo.com/group/protecting_knowledge/message/564

Many tribal people in South Dakota have felt the pain of having their
ancestors' graves desecrated, people like Ambrose McBride of Fort
Thompson. The 68-year-old Crow Creek Indian is the great-great grandson
of Bull Ghost, who worked in security for Sitting Bull.

After his death, Bull Ghost was buried north of Fort Thompson, near a
community known as Cold Hang. Some time later, his remains were stolen
from his grave, McBride says.

"One of the tribal members, an older man, he took some white people and
they dug out his grave," McBride says. "They took his whole body and
they never got him back. Even his tombstone is gone. It makes me feel
bad. And he was sold out by one of our tribal members."