Sitting Bear and Mato oyate, Bear “clan”

[grigoryev]

Hello.
As previously reported by Kingsley, Sitting Bear (and American Horse) tiyoshpaye moved n. from Southern Oglala c. 1858-59.
In 1868 there were two tiyospaye:
Sitting Bear 20 lodges
American Horse 10 lodges

Is there any other information on the Bear clan. Who else but family sitting bear was a member. And about the very family of Sitting Bear - who was among his children (except for the American Horse II)?

Thank you in advance.

[kingsleybray]

From the unprecedented access I have been given this year to American Horse family traditions, I know immensely more about their role in Oglala tribal life than I did. I don't want to spoiler too much of my discoveries right now. But what Joe American Horse described to me in 2012 as "the Bear clan" was called in Lakota Mato Oyate -- the Bear People or Bear Nation. Their origins lie late in the 1600s, when D-Dakota speaking people from the Sacred Lake (Mde wakan; modern Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota) started intensively intermarrying with l-Lakota speaking, Teton people from the prairie. An earlier Sitting Bear was the founding headman -- his dates are c. 1655-1710. He came from the Teton,and married a niece of the Kiyuksa dynast Bright Star, the latter being one of the Dakota leaders who made the alliance with the French under winter count year 1679 (in other words, the documented Du Lhut visit to Mille Lacs July 1679). This founding marriage, and the ones that consolidated it through the 1680s and 90s were the foundation of the modern Oglala people.

[grigoryev]

Thanks.

I just really liked the way you did the layout of the main groups of Oglala, starting from 1804, after 183x, south Oglala 1845, northern Oglala 1868. An interest supplement the information on the members of these groups.