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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2017 9:59:08 GMT -5
I am interested in the life of Black Tiger. He is listed in the Tiyospaye Surname Index as the the son of White Thunder Woman (half-sister of Smoke) and Savage Bear and the brother of Rocky Bear.
The index lists his birth as circa 1820 and that he was present at Fort Laramie in 1868 and nothing else.
I am guessing that Black Tiger was not his "cradle name" as there is no word in Lakota for "Tiger."
Catherine Price mentions him only as "touching the pen for the Oglalas" at Fort Laramie.
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Post by rawhide on Feb 5, 2017 8:30:05 GMT -5
Just a quick reply: As to his name, it was given as Egamon Tonka Sapah ( igmu tanka sapa), eng Black Tiger, when singing the 68' Treaty. Mountain lion is my guess. He was half brother to Mary Gardiner, wife of John Richard,sr, who was daughter of trader William Gardiner and White Thunder Woman of the "Northern Oglalas", and raised in the same village as her cousin Red Cloud with her half brothers, Rocky Bear and Black Tiger. Indian Agent Loree spoke with BT and sent a letter to Col William Collins on August 10, 1864, in Fort Laramie: " The bearer, Black Tiger, brother-in-law to John Richard, says that he and family where takan prisoners with eight ponies at the time the Indian, Grass, was wounded. He was not there and had nothing to do with it." There last two paragraphs came from Reshaw, by Jefferson Glass, 2014.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 19:14:44 GMT -5
Thanks for the name rawhide. That makes sense. Big Black Cat.
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