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Post by ladonna on Jul 1, 2008 16:27:37 GMT -5
GREY EAGLE FAMIY
IRON TAIL/ MAZA UPI BORN 1817 SPOUSE LAST WOMAN/YAN EHAKE WIN BORN 1818 MOTHER: NEAR CHILDREN Daughter: SUSAN YELLOW WINGS BORN 12/1855
DAUGHTER: NATION THAT SEES HER/SEEN BY HER NATION BORN 1837 DIED 1897 SPOUSES BEAR LOUSE SITTING BULL
DAUGHTER: HER FOUR BLANKET/FOUR ROBES BORN 1844 DIED 4/15/1929 SPOUSE: SITTING BULL
SON: ALEX GREY EAGLE BORN 4/1847 SPOUSE: FOOL BEAR SUSAN YELLOW WINGS BORN 12/1855 CHILDREN SON: JAMES GREY EAGLE BORN 4/1890 SON: JOHN GREY EAGLE BORN 9/1895
SON: GREY EAGLE BORN 1851 SPOUSE: DEER WOMAN/HAS SPEAR BORN 1864 MOTHER: FLYING HAIL CHILDREN SON-TAKES TWICE: BORN 1875 TWINS- BORN 1880 DIED 1880 TWINS BORN 1880 DIED 1880 DAUGHTER: BROUGHT SPOTTED BORN 1881 SON: LEADER BORN 1883
SON: GIVES UP BORN 1886 SON: SEND THE WAR PARTY BORN 1887
SON: GABRIEL GREY EAGLE BORN 1854 DIED 1935 SPOUSE TRUSTY LIZZIE SUNFLOWER BORN 1857 FATHER: ROSEBUD MOTHER GOOD TRAVOIS CHILDREN SON: RUNNING HORSE/CLARENCE GREY EAGLE BORN 1874 DIED 1965 SPOUSE JESSE SPOTTED BIRD GERTRUDE BORN 1875 CHILDREN SON: GABRIEL GREY EAGLE BORN 1894 SON: JOESPH GREY EAGLE BORN 1895 DAUGHTER: LOUISE GREY EAGLE BORN 1896 SON: THOMAS GREY EAGLE BORN 1897 DAUGHTER: SUSAN GREY EAGLE BORN 1899 DAUGHTER: JOSEPHINE GREY EAGLE BORN 1901 DAUGHTER: NANCY GREY EAGLE BORN 1906 SON: SAMMUEL GREY EAGLE BORN 1908 SON: MOSES GREY EAGLE BORN 1910 SPOUSE: NELLIE MAKES TROUBLE FATHER: MAKES TROUBLE MOTHER” PIPE WOMAN CHILDREN DAUGHTER: SARAPHINE DAUGHTER: ?? SON: LINUS GREY EAGLE SON DICKY GREY EAGLE DAUGHTER: SARAH GREY EAGLE BORN 1912 SON: SAMMUEL GREY EAGLE BORN 1875 SPOUSE LOUSIA ANNIE BRAVE THUNDER BORN 1876 DIED 1935
FATHER CHARLES BRAVE THUNDER MOTHER FANNIE PRETTY EAGLE CHILDREN SON: JOHN GREY EAGLE BORN 1893 SPOUSE: CECILIA CHILDREN: SON LEONARD GREY EAGLE SON MICHAEL GREY EAGLE DAUGHTER BERTHA GREY EAGLE DAUGHTER ELAINE GREY EAGLE GRANDSON LEONARD LAWRENCE SON: ISAAC GREY EAGLE BORN 1898 SON: ARTHUR GREY EAGLE BORN 1903 SON: LOUISE GREY EAGLE BORN 1907 DAUGHTER: LIZZIE GREY EAGLE BORN 1876 SPOUSE: ADOLPH WISESPIRIT SON: MICHAEL GREY EAGLE BORN 1878 SPOUSE JOSEPHINE ONE BEAR DAUGHTER: MARY GREY EAGLE BORN 1880 SON: EUGENE GREY EAGLE BORN 1887 SON: YELLOW COAT BORN 1856 SON: NOT A WOMAN BORN 1859 SON: SITTING EAGLE BORN 1860 WIZIOGLE MARRIED TOGLAOTAWIN
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Post by Dietmar on Jul 30, 2008 7:19:08 GMT -5
Grey Eagle by D.F. Barry
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Post by ladonna on Jul 30, 2008 9:03:33 GMT -5
CHIEF GALL
In 1876, Hunkpapa Sioux Indian Chief Gall met with peace commissioners. He had fought the U.S. government troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota, and commissioners hoped to convince him to sign a peace treaty. According to South Dakota Historical Collections, Gall said, "Suppose the people living beyond the great sea should come and tell you that you must stop farming and kill your cattle, and take your houses and lands. What would you do? Would you not fight them? In the Lakota Sioux language, Gall was called Pizi. He was born near South Dakota's Moreau River in about 1838. He was called Gall because as a boy, he ate the gall of a slaughtered animal. Gall and other Sioux fought and defeated General George Armstrong Custer and his U.S. Army Seventh Cavalry in the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn. Gall, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse opposed being placed on reservations and fought against the construction of forts and roads through the Lakota Sioux country. After the Little Big Horn battle, Gall and Sitting Bull traveled to Canada. Gall returned to the United States in 1881. He battled General Nelson A. Miles and was taken prisoner. Gall was released from Fort Buford in June of 1881. He and others of the Hunkpapa band returned to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. He became a farmer and converted to Christianity. In 1889, Gall became a judge in the court of Indian offenses. He helped his people by ending subdivisions of the reservation when he worked to ratify a Congressional act in 1889. Once, when he visited Washington, D.C., Gall gave spending money to the poor instead of using it for himself. "I went about your great city and saw many people. Some had fine clothes and diamonds; others were barefoot and ragged," Gall later said. "All people are alike among the Indians. We feed our poor." Gall died near Oak Creek on December 5, 1894. On October 4, 1991, Gall's grave was exhumed after the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park reported having Gall's skull in its collection. Participating in the exhumation was James K. Haug, State Archaeologist and Director of the Historical Society's Archaeologist Research Center. Haug proved that Chief Gall's body remains intact and he is buried at Wakpala.
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Post by Dietmar on Jul 21, 2009 15:16:59 GMT -5
Grey Eagle, when he was on tour with Sitting Bull and Cody
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Post by ephriam on Sept 11, 2009 7:54:27 GMT -5
LaDonna:
I have a question about your Grey Eagle family posting above.
First, I think that the man listed as Grey Eagle (b. c1851) is the same as Gabriel Grey Eagle (c1854-1935). Also, his wife Deer Woman was later known as Lizzie Grey Eagle (presumably the same as Lizzie Sunflower).
Do I understand from your notes above that Rosebud and his wife Good Travois are the parents of Lizzie Sunflower/Grey Eagle? It looks like that from the census records.
It appears that Grey Eagle's band (Hunkpapa: Wakan) was built around the sons and daughters of Rose Bud (Grey Eagle having married one of his daughters).
What are your thoughts?
ephriam
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Post by ephriam on Sept 13, 2009 13:24:10 GMT -5
A preliminary biographical summary:
GRAY EAGLE Wanbli Hota (c1854-1935). Hunkpapa: Wakan Band. Later known as Gabriel Gray Eagle.
Born an Oglala about 1850-54, Gray Eagle was among the northern or "non treaty" bands living away from the agencies by the 1870s. In the spring of 1872, Sitting Bull approached Gray Eagle about marrying his sister, Four Robes, an action that suggests that Gray Eagle's father had died by this time. That fall, Sitting Bull also married a second sister, Seen by the Nation, a widow with two sons. As a brother-in-law of Sitting Bull, Gray Eagle became closely aligned with the noted Hunkpapa headman.
Gray Eagle married a Hunkpapa woman named Deer Woman Tahca winla (later known as Lizzie Gray Eagle) by about 1874(?). She was the daughter of Rose Bud (c1820-c1890). Gray Eagle appears to have joined the Hunkpapa about this time.
In 1876, Gray Eagle, now about 22 years old, fought against the Army at the Battles of the Rosebud and at the Little Bighorn. (White Bull recalled the Gray Eagle was living in Sitting Bull's lodge in 1876, suggesting that he may not have married quite yet). During Sitting Bull's council with Colonel Miles, Gray Eagle was standing nearby, holding horses.
He was among the Hunkpapa who fled across the boundary into Canada for more than 2 years. Gray Eagle later recalled that he and Low Dog, a rising northern Oglala leader, were good friends and that they decided to come in and surrender in advance of Sitting Bull and other Hunkpapa. They were initially at Poplar Agency and then Fort Buford, before being transferred to the Fort Yates and the Standing Rock Agency in May/June 1881. In the Sitting Bull Surrender Census, Gray Eagle is listed with Crawler's Band, as are his father-in-law Rose Bud and several of his brother-in-laws.
Gray Eagle is first listed in agency documents as a leader of his own band in November 1882. The core members of his band appear to be Rose Bud and his sons, including Running Hawk, Iron Thunder and One Elk. Other core families include Village Center and Shell King, though their relationship to Gray Eagle is not yet known. One source suggests that Gray Eagle's band was known as the Wakan tiyospaye. Agent James McLaughlin described Gray Eagle as "a man of determination and strong will power... an influential leader of his people." He was noted as one of the first of the northern Hunkpapa to adopt western dress. He served as a tribal judge (years?) and went to Washington, D.C. as a delegate from Standing Rock in 1888.
His relationship with his brother-in-law, Sitting Bull, has been open to debate. Many authors have suggested that he and Sitting Bull had a strained relationship following Gray Eagle's punishment after a horse stealing incident in Canada. Gray Eagle himself however denied that this was true. He described his relationship with Sitting Bull as that of a brother. The fact that he and Little Assiniboine (Jumping Bull) traveled to Fort Randall in November 1882 to visit Sitting Bull supports his statement that their relationship was good during this period. Gray Eagle also requested Agent McLaughlin to request Sitting Bull's release.
Gray Eagle said that their relationship began to deteriorate in the late 1880s when he was attempting to persuade Sitting Bull to abandon traditional ways and to not engage in the newly emerging Ghost Dance. "You go ahead and follow what white man says but for my part, leave me alone," Sitting Bull reportedly said. Gray Eagle warned Sitting Bull that his refusal to obey the Indian agent would cause trouble. "We have been friends for a long time," Gray Eagle replied, "but if you are not going to do as whites say, we will not be together any more."
There is considerable speculation as to why Gray Eagle accompanied the agency police to Sitting Bull's home that morning of December 15, 1890. Some have speculated that he had turned against his brother-in-law and had led the police there. Others suggest that he came to protect his sisters and their children. Gray Eagle himself said that he went to try and use his influence to convince Sitting Bull to come in to the Agency with the police as ordered. Tragically, during the struggle with the agency police, Sitting Bull and several family members were killed.
In the aftermath of Sitting Bull's death, his widows and children joined Gray Eagle's band and then, about 1892, transferred to the Pine Ridge Agency. Gray Eagle remained at Standing Rock as a vocal spokesman for his community. He died at Standing Rock on June 13, 1935.
ephriam
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Post by Dietmar on Sept 14, 2009 16:01:24 GMT -5
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Post by emilylevine on Oct 15, 2009 13:36:35 GMT -5
Waggoner makes a curious statement about Gray Eagle's ancestry: She not only says that he was born a Mnicowoju, but that he was an adopted Blackfeet captive. does anyone have any insight into either of these claims?
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Post by kingsleybray on Oct 15, 2009 14:56:37 GMT -5
oh boy
Kingsley
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Post by jaybird on Nov 4, 2015 18:02:32 GMT -5
Does anyone know of a connection between Grey Eagle the person and Grey Eagle the town in Central Minnesota?
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Post by ladonna on Nov 25, 2015 12:24:22 GMT -5
not that I know of
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Post by wanita41 on Feb 11, 2016 15:08:40 GMT -5
My grandma is Elaine Grey Eagle and Leonard, when I was younger I would sit and listen to them speak their language. I miss both of them...
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Grey Eagle
Jul 29, 2016 13:32:51 GMT -5
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Post by iching on Jul 29, 2016 13:32:51 GMT -5
Hi! Does anyone knows or where to check the date of death of Susan Grey Eagle (daughter of chief Grey Eagle)? Thanks!
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