Post by Dietmar on May 8, 2012 9:14:49 GMT -5
Standing Elk was a chief of the Sicangu Corn Band.
In October 1855 a young warrior named Standing Elk was one of the Lakota who surrendered along with Spotted Tail, Long Chin, Red Leaf and Red Plume to White authorities for killings done in the wake of the Grattan affair. (G. Hyde: Spotted Tail´s Folk, page 64)
During Red Cloud´s War in 1866/67 and the councils that took place at Fort Laramie around that time he already was recognized as a Brule chief.
He is best known for warning Colonel Carrington not to move to the Sioux country and try built new Forts there, or there would be war. (D. Brown: The Fetterman Massacre, page 38)
He signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868 and later, along with Swift Bear, another leader of the Corn band, he moved to Whetstone and Spotted Tail agencies. He is decribed by army personel as friendly, progressive and intelligent (Hyde, p. 205), but in 1876, when white treaty commissioners tried to talk about a possible remove of the Sioux to Indian Territory, he ranted against them in a strong manner. (Hyde, p.229)
This is the earliest portait of Standing Elk, taken by Alexander Gardner at Fort Laramie in 1868, although it sometimes is attributed to Ridgway Glover:
In October 1855 a young warrior named Standing Elk was one of the Lakota who surrendered along with Spotted Tail, Long Chin, Red Leaf and Red Plume to White authorities for killings done in the wake of the Grattan affair. (G. Hyde: Spotted Tail´s Folk, page 64)
During Red Cloud´s War in 1866/67 and the councils that took place at Fort Laramie around that time he already was recognized as a Brule chief.
He is best known for warning Colonel Carrington not to move to the Sioux country and try built new Forts there, or there would be war. (D. Brown: The Fetterman Massacre, page 38)
He signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868 and later, along with Swift Bear, another leader of the Corn band, he moved to Whetstone and Spotted Tail agencies. He is decribed by army personel as friendly, progressive and intelligent (Hyde, p. 205), but in 1876, when white treaty commissioners tried to talk about a possible remove of the Sioux to Indian Territory, he ranted against them in a strong manner. (Hyde, p.229)
This is the earliest portait of Standing Elk, taken by Alexander Gardner at Fort Laramie in 1868, although it sometimes is attributed to Ridgway Glover:
