Dakota Scouts

[Diane Merkel]

An excellent article by Lilah Morton Pengra has been posted on our website. This one, "Dakota Scouts at Fort Abraham Lincoln, May, 1876," features information about Appearing Bear, Bear Running in the Timber, Cards, Left Hand, Round Wooden Cloud, Seize the Buffalo, The Shield, and White Cloud.

Article: american-tribes.com/Articles/ART/[e-mail]

Enjoy!

Diane

[kingsleybray]

thanks, Diane, and special thanks to Lilah Morton Pengra, this is exciting new information and analysis. Wopila Ota!!

[Dietmar]

Thanks a lot for the article, Lilah an Diane!

Regarding the scout called Cards or Gambler:

Lilah M. Pengra writes he was the son of an African American man and a Native American woman and later was called Henry Kaddy.


A man with the name Kaddy was enlisted in the first police unit at Fort Yates/Standing Rock in 1883. He is identified in a 1883 group photo:



Kaddy