These two articles provide a lot of information about Chief Goose, also called Giles Goose, and his family:
CHIEF GOOSE PASSES AWAY IN
CORSON COUNTY—BURIED
AT FORT YATES.Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Aberdeen. - Chief Goose, possibly
the most noted Indian government
scout of his time, died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. J. F. Wagoner,
who lives in the neighborhood of
Thunderhawk, in western Corson coun-
ty. The remains were taken overland
over the old Indian trial which once
marked the center of this noted In-
dian's activities during the Indian up-
risings a half century ago to Fort
Yates, where interment was made the
latter part of the week in the same
Indian cemetery which holds the re-
mains of Sitting Bull, the lifelong and
bitter enemy of Chief Goose. Burial
was made with all Indian and military
honors.
Chief Goose was what was known
as a friendly Indian, never having tak-
en up arms against the government.
Back in the stirring times of the 70s,
when Gens. Miles, Custer and Terry,
were trying to bring the Sioux nation
within the confines of the Cheyenne
and Standing Rock reservations, which
comprised nearly the entire portion of
the northwestern fourth of the state
west of the Missouri river, and while
their efforts were being most strenu-¬
ously opposed by that wiley war chief,
Sitting Bull, Chief Goose was doing
his best work for the government. He
was a particular friend of Gen. Custer,
and accompanied him on many of his
most notable and successful expedi-
tions into the Indian country, acting
as his chief scout.
It was Chief Goose who showed Gen.
Custer and his band the immensely
rich deposits of gold in the Black Hills
which have since proved the biggest
source, of Dakota's gold mining reve-
nue. During his early day travels
Goose located many rich deposits of
gold, and it was in an effort to re-lo-
cate one of these rich deposits that
he contracted the illness which cost
him his life.
Chief Goose joined the Catholic
church in his early manhood and died
in that faith, saying his prayers over
his rosary when death sealed his lips.
Twelve hours prior to his death he
told those about him that he was dy-
ing, and, surrounded by his compan-
ions on his last journey over the trails
of his beloved Dakota prairies, made
the arrangements for the transporta-
tion of his remains to Fort Yates,
where he desired to be buried. This
is the agency seat of the Standing
Rock reservation, and many of the
most noted Indians of the Dakotas are
buried there, among them Sitting Bull.
Thus ends the career of the most
noted Indian scout ever employed by
the government, and his passing will
bring him back to the memory of many
of the old pioneers who knew him
during the rugged and trying days of
the early 70s. Chief Goose was a full
blood Sioux Indian of the Tetone
branch (meaning "prairie dwellers"),
tall, straight and lean even in his old
age, and a typical specimen of his
race. He drew a pension from the
government for his services during
the early days under Gens. Miles, Cus-
ter and Terry.
Hot Springs Weekly Star, August 06, 1915
MARY GILES SUD-
DENLY STRICKENWife of Former Chief Goose,
Drops Dead Thursday of
Heart Failure
Another one of the real old-time
Sioux Indians, who have seen this
country pass through the many
epoch making changes that have
occurred since the coming of the
whitemen, was called to the great
beyond Thursday when Mrs. Mary
Giles suddenly dropped dead of
heart failure.
Up to the time of her death, Mrs.
Giles was apparently in the best of
health, notwithstanding her ad-
vanced age. Her husband, Chief
Goose, one of the famous Indian
Scouts who was with General Cus-
ter, died in 1915. Mrs. Giles was
making her home at the time of
her death with her daughter., Mrs.
Louis Endres. She is survived by
three daughters, the other two be-
ing Mrs. Sibley Fly and Mrs.
Frank Bullhead. Funeral services
were held Friday in St. Peters
church and interment was made in
the church's cemetery.
Her husband, it will be remem-
bered, at the time of his death was
leading a number of white men
westward in search of gold. The
journey, though, was too much for
the old Chief as he died before the
party reached the place toward
which he was leading them. This
gold Chief Goose always maintained
he had seen, and Mrs. Frank
Bullhead still has a small nugget
which was found by him. It is
said Chief Goose once started with
General Custer on the same quest.
Mrs. Giles was a noble woman
and as highly thought of and res-
pected as her faithful husband had
been. The sympathy of her many
friends is extended to her daughters
in her sudden bereavement.
Sioux County Pioneer, October 23, 1919
Goose by Frank Fiske
This is said to be one of Goose´s daughters:
Btw, there are three pages on Goose in Emily´s "Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas"
