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Post by tatanka on Jul 30, 2008 11:04:50 GMT -5
I have just noticed in Rain-In-The-Faces' account of the LBH. He says he saw what he thought was the soldier leader waving a "big knife." I was under the impression that the 7th didn't carry sabres on that campaign as Custer thought they would make too much noise.
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Post by tatanka on Jul 29, 2008 15:25:11 GMT -5
I didn't know that. His father would be Hunkpapa?
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Post by tatanka on Jul 29, 2008 14:42:39 GMT -5
I didn't know it was the Sans Arc who first received the sacred cannupa from the White Buffalo Calf Woman. Ladonna, your posts are invaluable to this forum. So much information.
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Post by tatanka on Jul 29, 2008 14:38:31 GMT -5
Some of the white mans' translations of Lakota names is downright derogatory. I wonder if it was intentional or just ignorance. I know that many Lakota words are difficult if not impossible to translate into English.
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Post by tatanka on Jul 29, 2008 14:33:01 GMT -5
The same Lonesome Charley Reynolds who died at Renos'attack? If it was he certainly got his comeuppance.
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Post by tatanka on Jul 29, 2008 12:49:21 GMT -5
I did say it was just a story.
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Post by tatanka on Jul 29, 2008 12:43:32 GMT -5
There is a story regarding Rain-In-The-Face and Tom Custer. It was said that when the Lakota was incarcerated at Fort Lincoln Tom Custer treated him badly. After he escaped, Rain-In-The-Face vowed someday to kill him and eat his heart. When TCs body was found his chest had been sliced open, lending credence that Rain-In-The-Face had carried out his threat. Also some years after the battle he met Elizabeth Custer, inquiring about her health and whether she had "a new soldier-chief".
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Post by tatanka on Jul 26, 2008 10:44:30 GMT -5
ladonna, what a pedigree you have! All I can claim is a Lakota great great grandmother.
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Post by tatanka on Jul 26, 2008 9:38:12 GMT -5
On Pine Ridge they have a new confectionary called Tanka Bar. It's very popular and the kids call it "buffalo candy".
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Post by tatanka on Jul 26, 2008 7:42:55 GMT -5
I have been trying to find a photograph of Kicking Bear with his family, taken around the late 1890s or early 1900s, possibly at Pine Ridge. I remember seeing one once but can't remember where. Can anyone help?
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Post by tatanka on Jul 25, 2008 13:32:04 GMT -5
Thanks, clw. I hadn't heard that.
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Post by tatanka on Jul 25, 2008 13:14:48 GMT -5
When Kicking Bear married a relation of Big Foots', he became a band leader of the Minniconjou. Yet after he returned from the Wild West show he went to live with his family at Pine Ridge. So he must have still considered himself Oglala?
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Post by tatanka on Jul 25, 2008 7:23:13 GMT -5
Lame Deer did not surrender. He died a free Lakota.
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Post by tatanka on Jul 22, 2008 12:33:53 GMT -5
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Post by tatanka on Jul 22, 2008 6:48:44 GMT -5
Has anyone seen the online archive tour on the LBH main pages? A lot of interesting artifacts. The bead and quillwork are beautiful.
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