Post by jinlian on Jul 25, 2008 16:30:27 GMT -5
Chief Pretty Eagle, Déahĭtsĭśh , Mountain Crow, Piegan Ackyā’mne clan, Kit-Foxes I’axuxke society. Born in 1846, a noted warrior and leader of many war parties, Chief Pretty Eagle was one of the first Apsalooka to settle in the Bighorn valley. After a period of service in the US military as scout, Pretty Eagle, along with Chief Plenty Coups, opted for using the Crow reservation lands as pasture or to use it for growing hay to sell to the nearby ranches. In 1880, together with other five Apsalooka, Pretty Eagle travelled to Washington to protest against the building of a railway line in the reservation area. In 1887, during the Sword Bearer incident, he supported the agency administration, even if he later regretted the death of Sword Bearer and condemned the killing.
Pretty Eagle’s immediate family was composed of his wife and 3 children. He’s said to have taken nineteen wives, but probably most of them were temporary wives, taken during the wife-kidnapping period between the two rival warrior societies of Kit-Foxes and Lumpowood.
Pretty Eagle died on November 11, 1903. After his death, his remains were sold to a collector and accessioned in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1994, during a solemn two days ceremony, Pretty Eagle was reburied in a traditional fasting site near Bighorn Canyon.
In the first chapter of his book Blankets and Mocassins, William Allen reports how in 1879 he saved Pretty Eagle, his wife and his youngest daughter during a snowstorm and how Pretty Eagle told him about a great battle the Apsalooka fought against the Pawnee on the early 17th century near Pryor Creek.
Crow warriors, late 1870s. Standing from left: Spotted Horse? Enemy Hunter? Big Shoulder.
Sitting from left: Pretty Eagle, Bull Nose, Plenty Coups, Short Bull Tail
Crow delegation in Washington: standing from left: M. Quivly (interpreter), Two Belly, Augustus R. Keller (Crow agent), T. Stewart (interpreter). Sitting from left: Old Crow, Medicine Crow, Long Elk, Plenty Coups, Pretty Eagle
Pretty Eagle in four individual portraits made in 1880 by C. Bell
Pretty Eagle, undated
Pretty Eagle and his family, about 1885
Pretty Eagle - portrait by Elbridge Burbank
Pretty Eagle’s immediate family was composed of his wife and 3 children. He’s said to have taken nineteen wives, but probably most of them were temporary wives, taken during the wife-kidnapping period between the two rival warrior societies of Kit-Foxes and Lumpowood.
Pretty Eagle died on November 11, 1903. After his death, his remains were sold to a collector and accessioned in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1994, during a solemn two days ceremony, Pretty Eagle was reburied in a traditional fasting site near Bighorn Canyon.
In the first chapter of his book Blankets and Mocassins, William Allen reports how in 1879 he saved Pretty Eagle, his wife and his youngest daughter during a snowstorm and how Pretty Eagle told him about a great battle the Apsalooka fought against the Pawnee on the early 17th century near Pryor Creek.
Crow warriors, late 1870s. Standing from left: Spotted Horse? Enemy Hunter? Big Shoulder.
Sitting from left: Pretty Eagle, Bull Nose, Plenty Coups, Short Bull Tail
Crow delegation in Washington: standing from left: M. Quivly (interpreter), Two Belly, Augustus R. Keller (Crow agent), T. Stewart (interpreter). Sitting from left: Old Crow, Medicine Crow, Long Elk, Plenty Coups, Pretty Eagle
Pretty Eagle in four individual portraits made in 1880 by C. Bell
Pretty Eagle, undated
Pretty Eagle and his family, about 1885
Pretty Eagle - portrait by Elbridge Burbank
