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Post by ladonna on Jul 29, 2008 12:17:56 GMT -5
Pizi, CHIEF GALL Hunkpapa warrior chief; born ca 1838, son of nobody of distinction. In the Lakota Sioux language, Gall was called Pizi. He was born near South Dakota's Moreau River in about 1838. He was called Gall because as a boy, he ate the gall of a slaughtered animal. In 1876, Hunkpapa Sioux Indian Chief Gall met with peace commissioners. He had fought the U.S. government troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota, and commissioners hoped to convince him to sign a peace treaty. According to South Dakota Historical Collections, Gall said, "Suppose the people living beyond the great sea should come and tell you that you must stop farming and kill your cattle, and take your houses and lands. What would you do? Would you not fight them?" Gall and other Sioux fought and defeated General George Armstrong Custer and his U.S. Army Seventh Cavalry in the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn. Gall was among the Cheyenne looking after horses when Reno attacked his 2 wives and 3 children were killed in Reno's attack on the village; Gall said: "It made my heart bad. After that I killed all my enemies with the hatchet." a principal leader in the battle of the 25th; he did not, as some say lead charges against Reno's troops in the valley, but was diverted from that fight by one of his warriors who had spotted Custer from the bluffs, and led them in a frontal attack on Custer's troops, while Crazy Horse's warriors struck Custer's flank and rear; Gall, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse opposed being placed on reservations and fought against the construction of forts and roads through the Lakota Sioux country. After the Little Big Horn battle, Gall and Sitting Bull traveled to Canada. Gall returned to the United States in 1881. He surrendered January 1881 at Poplar Creek, Montana to Major IIges. He battled General Nelson A. Miles and was taken prisoner. Gall was released from Fort Buford in June of 1881. He and others of the Hunkpapa band returned to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. He became a farmer and converted to Christianity. In 1889, Gall became a judge in the court of Indian offenses. He helped his people by ending subdivisions of the reservation when he worked to ratify a Congressional act in 1889. Once, when he visited Washington, D.C., Gall gave spending money to the poor instead of using it for himself. "I went about your great city and saw many people. Some had fine clothes and diamonds; others were barefoot and ragged," Gall later said. "All people are alike among the Indians. We feed our poor."l Gall worked as a farmer; died in 1894 at age 56, at Oak Creek near Standing Rock Agency on December 5, 1894. On October 4, 1991, Gall's grave was exhumed after the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park reported having Gall's skull in its collection.Gall was still in his grave with his skull. Participating in the exhumation was James K. Haug, State Archaeologist and Director of the Historical Society's Archaeologist Research Center. Haug proved that Chief Gall's body remains intact and he is buried at Wakpala. In the 1885 Standing Rock Ration list Gall had 22 lodges and 114 people in his care. Tokahekiyapi (Leader); Catkawin Tanka (Big Left Hand); Wanikeya (Gives Life); Mato Kutepi (Shoot the Bear); Situpi Ska (White Tail Feather); Poge Yartakapi (Bit Nose); Wawaha Nonpa (Two Furs); Heraka Isnala (Lone Buck Elk); Mastinca (Rabbit); Tamila Wewe (His Bloody Knife); Mato Ha Wapostan (Bear's Cap); Can Kte (Kill the Wood); Tatanka Mani (Walking Bull); Tatanka Hanska (Long Bull); Wanbli Cincula (Young Eagle); Sunka Isnala (Alone Dog); Tatank Ehani (Old Bull); Karnir Akdi (Brought His Choice); Tatokala (Antelope); Tasunke Luzahan (His Fast Horse); Toka Ktepi (Killed Enemy); Anapta (Head Him Off); Marpiya Gleglega (Streaked Cloud);
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Jul 29, 2008 12:51:12 GMT -5
Post by ladonna on Jul 29, 2008 12:51:12 GMT -5
Gall-Pizi Other names of Gall Little Bear Club or Bear Shedding His Hair or The Man That Goes in the Middle or Walks in Red Clothing and finally Abraham Gall Birth: October 1840 Died: December 5, 1894 Born along the Moreau River Father Iciskehan or Running Horses or Making Many Sisters Mother Cajeotawin or Walks with Many Names-she is sister to Inkpaduta Brother Lone Man Father is related to Black Moon
Gall’s wives Stand in Center White Lightening Martina Blue Earth One killed at Little Big Horn Battle
Gall’s Children Charles Gall Brown Woman Red Horses Woman-Nancy Gall Sarah Shoots or Red Hawk Hattie Disputed
Member of the Strong Heart Society Silent Eater Society
Gall’s group Rain-in-the-Face, Bear King, Charging Thunder, Bone Club and Inkpaduta went with Gall to Canada. May 26 1881 Gall, Black Moon, Crow King, Fools Hearts, Lone Dog and other were sent back to Standing Rock on a Streamer called Sherman after surrendered in Montana, and arrival on Standing Rock May 29, 1881. Gall was baptized on July 4, 1892 by the Episcopalian church in Wakpala SD
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Jul 30, 2008 9:00:08 GMT -5
Post by ladonna on Jul 30, 2008 9:00:08 GMT -5
CHIEF GALL
In 1876, Hunkpapa Sioux Indian Chief Gall met with peace commissioners. He had fought the U.S. government troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota, and commissioners hoped to convince him to sign a peace treaty. According to South Dakota Historical Collections, Gall said, "Suppose the people living beyond the great sea should come and tell you that you must stop farming and kill your cattle, and take your houses and lands. What would you do? Would you not fight them? In the Lakota Sioux language, Gall was called Pizi. He was born near South Dakota's Moreau River in about 1838. He was called Gall because as a boy, he ate the gall of a slaughtered animal. Gall and other Sioux fought and defeated General George Armstrong Custer and his U.S. Army Seventh Cavalry in the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn. Gall, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse opposed being placed on reservations and fought against the construction of forts and roads through the Lakota Sioux country. After the Little Big Horn battle, Gall and Sitting Bull traveled to Canada. Gall returned to the United States in 1881. He battled General Nelson A. Miles and was taken prisoner. Gall was released from Fort Buford in June of 1881. He and others of the Hunkpapa band returned to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. He became a farmer and converted to Christianity. In 1889, Gall became a judge in the court of Indian offenses. He helped his people by ending subdivisions of the reservation when he worked to ratify a Congressional act in 1889. Once, when he visited Washington, D.C., Gall gave spending money to the poor instead of using it for himself. "I went about your great city and saw many people. Some had fine clothes and diamonds; others were barefoot and ragged," Gall later said. "All people are alike among the Indians. We feed our poor." Gall died near Oak Creek on December 5, 1894. On October 4, 1991, Gall's grave was exhumed after the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park reported having Gall's skull in its collection. Participating in the exhumation was James K. Haug, State Archaeologist and Director of the Historical Society's Archaeologist Research Center. Haug proved that Chief Gall's body remains intact and he is buried at Wakpala.
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Jul 31, 2008 16:21:46 GMT -5
Post by miyelo on Jul 31, 2008 16:21:46 GMT -5
do you think he betrayed Sitting Bull?
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Jul 31, 2008 18:57:20 GMT -5
Post by ladonna on Jul 31, 2008 18:57:20 GMT -5
your asking opinions?
well i don't think it was out right betrayal as much as survival.
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Jul 31, 2008 19:23:03 GMT -5
Post by miyelo on Jul 31, 2008 19:23:03 GMT -5
Yes, your opinion as you are obviously very knowledgable of your People's history and stories. it is so hard to know about men like Gall, Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, etc. If they were really sacrificing the old ways for the People, or for themselves. Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, etc there was no question. To me anyways.
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Aug 1, 2008 23:04:26 GMT -5
Post by ladonna on Aug 1, 2008 23:04:26 GMT -5
It hard to really say, because life was hard for many people at the beginning of the reservation days. People like Sitting Bull and his family suffered for many years. We honor his strength for holding out but the other did their best to figure out how to live in no matter what.
I guess for me I find there was no winners
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Aug 2, 2008 5:20:35 GMT -5
Post by Dietmar on Aug 2, 2008 5:20:35 GMT -5
Is this really Gall´s mother, Walks-With-Many-Names, as indicated at the Minnesota Historical Society´s site? Mother Gall. Photographer: Scott Photograph Collection, Cabinet photograph 1888 Location no. E93.1G r3 Negative no. 97998
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Aug 4, 2008 11:16:20 GMT -5
Post by charlie on Aug 4, 2008 11:16:20 GMT -5
At which band (of birth) GALL belonged to? Perhaps at "Kangi Ska" (White Crow)?
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Sept 2, 2008 14:17:36 GMT -5
Post by Dietmar on Sept 2, 2008 14:17:36 GMT -5
I found this photo here: www.sfmission.org/museum/exhibits/buechel/biography/index0003.htmlIt allegedly shows Yellow Blanket, a daughter of Gall. FR BUECHEL , MRS. JARVIS (81 YEARS OLD) & YELLOW BLANKET (DAUGHTER OF CHIEF GALL) CATHOLIC CONGRESS, JUNE 21-24, 1938 HONORED BOTH MRS. JARVIS AND MRS. YELLOW BLANKET AT HOLY ROSARY MISSION
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Oct 31, 2008 15:05:19 GMT -5
Post by Dietmar on Oct 31, 2008 15:05:19 GMT -5
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Dec 27, 2008 11:24:08 GMT -5
Post by ladonna on Dec 27, 2008 11:24:08 GMT -5
Robert Just sent me the article, Gall is an interesting person coming from coming a Dakota and Lakota background. There is so much that has not been uncovered conerning Gall. Being the nephew of Inkpaduta was one of them
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Jan 10, 2009 11:50:04 GMT -5
Post by Dietmar on Jan 10, 2009 11:50:04 GMT -5
Very interesting. I looked in Larson´s book and in Paul N. Beck´s book on Inkpaduta. Unfortunately both neglect this information. Beck states that Inkpaduta had two sisters, one married a Sisseton chief and the other a Lakota. The latter could be Iciskehan.
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Jan 25, 2009 9:26:24 GMT -5
Post by Historian on Jan 25, 2009 9:26:24 GMT -5
There was a recently published book on Gall titled: Gall: Lakota War Chief, by Robert W. Larson, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.Cover of the book Gall - Hunkpapa - 1878 Gall - Hunkpapa - 1878 Gall - Hunkpapa - 1878 Gall - Hunkpapa - no date Gall - Hunkpapa - no date Gall - Hunkpapa - no date Gall and wife - Hunkpapa - no date Gall and family - Hunkpapa - no date non-Indian boy and Gall - Hunkpapa - 1881 Gall - Hunkpapa - 1881 Gall - Hunkpapa - 1881 Gall - Hunkpapa - circa 1880s Gall - Hunkpapa - 1885 Gall - Hunkpapa - 1888 Gall - Hunkpapa - 1889 In addition, many talk about the quarrel between Gall and Sitting Bull. The following is one version of the story: "...Although at 44, Sitting Bull had a minimal role in the combat at the Little Bighorn, he did exhort many younger warriors to fight. Thus, he and Gall were important figures at the battle for different reasons. Sitting Bull's famous vision just prior to the Battle of the Rosebud of soldiers and their horses falling upside down into the Indians' camp had given the Lakotas great confidence at both the Rosebud and the Little Bighorn. Moreover, the two men continued to cooperate during the difficult months after defeating Custer. During the final phases of the Great Sioux War (1876-77), Gall fought alongside his mentor at such battles as Ash Creek and Red Water. Colonel Nelson A. Miles, however, continued his zealous pursuit, eventually forcing the Hunkpapas and their allies to cross the Canadian border. There on the buffalo-rich plains of Saskatchewan, many Lakota Sioux would live in exile for four years. The early months spent by these nontreaty Indians in Grandmother's Land, as they called this remote western province of Queen Victoria, were reasonably happy. The Canadian government was represented by Major James M. Walsh of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), a strict but fair-minded man. The main problem for the Sioux exiles was the attitude of the U.S. government; it pressured the Canadian authorities in Ottawa to expel these defiant nontreaty Indians or at least discourage them from staying. During the late 1870s, Sitting Bull and Gall remained friends and allies while camped for the most part near the NWMP post at Wood Mountain (just north of Montana Territory). Sitting Bull, however, tended to rely more on his nephew One Bull to help him accomplish his goal of remaining free and content. Curiously, Gall assumed a rather low profile in Canada during much of the time. More serious problems for these exiles occurred when a decline in the number of buffalo in Canada began to match an earlier decline of bison south of the border. This development soon worsened relations between the Lakotas and such Canadian tribes as the Crees, Bloods and Blackfeet, who also depended on the buffalo for survival. Although the Canadian government was willing to give the Canadian tribes a reservation for their support, it was unwilling to make a similar offer to the Sioux. Because of the buffalo's diminishing numbers, many Lakotas, including Gall and his band, would often cross the international boundary in search of game. These crossings antagonized the U.S. government; more important, they were telling indications that the nontreaty bands were hungry and approaching starvation. These difficult times made many of the Lakota exiles homesick. A growing number were eager to join their families on the Great Sioux Reservation. Sitting Bull, however, was still opposed to surrendering to federal authorities; he did not want to leave Canada and live under a government he did not trust. In the summer of 1880, Gall, on one of those illegal buffalo hunts south of the border, encountered an old friend, Edwin H. Allison. Allison was driving cattle to Fort Buford in North Dakota. He wanted Gall to arrange a meeting for him with Sitting Bull so he could convince the Sioux leader to surrender. When Allison's eventual meeting with Sitting Bull failed to achieve positive results, he won a pledge from Gall that he would bring 20 lodges of his people to Fort Buford for surrender. When Sitting Bull heard about Gall's pledge, he heaped bitter criticism upon his old friend. Gall, who had a mercurial temper, exploded with rage. He insisted that the Hunkpapas at their Canadian camp should leave Sitting Bull and follow him to Fort Buford. In the end, the stubborn Sitting Bull was left with only 200 loyal followers, while Gall may have ultimately brought as many as 300 lodges to the fort. After this bitter incident, the two men were never again really close...." Taken from an article titled, "Sioux Chief Gall" written by Robert W. Larson in the June 2006 issue of Wild West Magazine.
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Jan 25, 2009 12:41:13 GMT -5
Post by grahamew on Jan 25, 2009 12:41:13 GMT -5
The last two pictures are those taken in 81
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