Post by hreinn on Aug 22, 2009 5:42:32 GMT -5
The little I know about Black Buffalo Woman is mainly from what I have read in Kingsley Bray masterpiece: "Crazy Horse - A Lakota Life".
What I can gather is that Black Buffalo Woman was born in the year 1846 as an Oglala Lakota.
Her father was a "brother" to Red Cloud.
In the year 1862 Black Buffalo Woman married No Water.
In the year 1870 she eloped with Crazy Horse and they traveled together for only 2 days before No Water ended the trip by shooting Crazy Horse in the face.
Black Buffalo Woman had 3 or 4 children. The father to her last born child (a girl born in 1871) was perhaps Crazy Horse.
Her oldest child was a boy born in 1863 which later on received his father name No Water.
Black Buffalo Woman was said to be attractive and beautiful.
Since Black Buffalo Woman had such an influence on Crazy Horse life, I would like to know more about her, if possible. Therefore I would like to ask the following questions:
1. What was the name of Black Buffalo Woman parents ?
2. How was the father of Black Buffalo Woman related to Chief Smoke and Red Cloud ? (see the thread "Chief Smoke and his family" and the information from Wendyll Smoke (http://amertribes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=oglala1&action=display&thread=239))
3. Into which band/tiyoshpaye was Black Buffalo Woman born and raised in ?
4. Does there exists a description of Black Buffalo Woman looking or personality ?
5. Does there exists pictures of Black Buffalo Woman, No Water or their children ?
6. How many children did Black Buffalo Woman have (3 or 4) ?
7. What were the names of the children of Black Buffalo Woman ?
8. When were the children of Black Buffalo Woman born ? I am specially interrested to know in what month of the year her last child was born (the girl she perhaps owned with CH).
9. In what band/tiyoshpaye did the couple Black Buffalo Woman and No Water belong to most of the time ?
10. Why did Black Buffalo Woman and No Water not get along ?
11. After how many days after No Water shooting of Crazy Horse did Black Buffalo Woman go back to No Water ?
12. Did Black Buffalo Woman have any relationship or affair with other men than No Water and Crazy Horse ?
13. Did No Water start to drink an alcohol after settlement on reservation or perhaps before the elopement of Black Buffalo Woman and Crazy Horse ?
14. Did Black Buffalo Woman and No Water divorce later on ?
15. Did Black Buffalo Woman divorce No Water in a proper way according to the Lakota ways, before the elopement with Crazy Horse ?
I wonder why Black Buffalo Woman went back to No Water if she wanted to divorce. Okay, No Water could not tolerate that Black Buffalo Woman was with Crazy Horse, but he could not have anything to say about her living alone. If everything was in an order for her to divorce her husband and that having been done in a proper way and she wanted not to live with No Water, then she should have been able to live by her own and not having to return to No Water.
Miyelo: Does Broken Leg have anything about Black Buffalo Woman ?
With best wishes,
Gudmundur Hreinn Sveinsson
What I can gather is that Black Buffalo Woman was born in the year 1846 as an Oglala Lakota.
Her father was a "brother" to Red Cloud.
In the year 1862 Black Buffalo Woman married No Water.
In the year 1870 she eloped with Crazy Horse and they traveled together for only 2 days before No Water ended the trip by shooting Crazy Horse in the face.
Black Buffalo Woman had 3 or 4 children. The father to her last born child (a girl born in 1871) was perhaps Crazy Horse.
Her oldest child was a boy born in 1863 which later on received his father name No Water.
Black Buffalo Woman was said to be attractive and beautiful.
Since Black Buffalo Woman had such an influence on Crazy Horse life, I would like to know more about her, if possible. Therefore I would like to ask the following questions:
1. What was the name of Black Buffalo Woman parents ?
2. How was the father of Black Buffalo Woman related to Chief Smoke and Red Cloud ? (see the thread "Chief Smoke and his family" and the information from Wendyll Smoke (http://amertribes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=oglala1&action=display&thread=239))
3. Into which band/tiyoshpaye was Black Buffalo Woman born and raised in ?
4. Does there exists a description of Black Buffalo Woman looking or personality ?
5. Does there exists pictures of Black Buffalo Woman, No Water or their children ?
6. How many children did Black Buffalo Woman have (3 or 4) ?
7. What were the names of the children of Black Buffalo Woman ?
8. When were the children of Black Buffalo Woman born ? I am specially interrested to know in what month of the year her last child was born (the girl she perhaps owned with CH).
9. In what band/tiyoshpaye did the couple Black Buffalo Woman and No Water belong to most of the time ?
10. Why did Black Buffalo Woman and No Water not get along ?
11. After how many days after No Water shooting of Crazy Horse did Black Buffalo Woman go back to No Water ?
12. Did Black Buffalo Woman have any relationship or affair with other men than No Water and Crazy Horse ?
13. Did No Water start to drink an alcohol after settlement on reservation or perhaps before the elopement of Black Buffalo Woman and Crazy Horse ?
14. Did Black Buffalo Woman and No Water divorce later on ?
15. Did Black Buffalo Woman divorce No Water in a proper way according to the Lakota ways, before the elopement with Crazy Horse ?
I wonder why Black Buffalo Woman went back to No Water if she wanted to divorce. Okay, No Water could not tolerate that Black Buffalo Woman was with Crazy Horse, but he could not have anything to say about her living alone. If everything was in an order for her to divorce her husband and that having been done in a proper way and she wanted not to live with No Water, then she should have been able to live by her own and not having to return to No Water.
Miyelo: Does Broken Leg have anything about Black Buffalo Woman ?
With best wishes,
Gudmundur Hreinn Sveinsson