Post by kingsleybray on Jan 13, 2010 7:39:33 GMT -5
Thanks for the great photo's everyone, and special thanks to dickmill for the very interesting new information on Whirlwind Soldier. Dietmar I think I may have posted somewhere the suggestion that WS was a son-in-law of Spotted Tail. That was based on the fact that the New York Public Library photos of Brule children taken at Carlisle in 1880-81 includes an image of a Daniel Whirlwind Soldier, identified as the grandson of Spotted Tail. I think the photo is reproduced in George Hyde's A SIOUX CHRONICLE. Knowing that WS was not a biological 'son' of ST I made the wrong assumption. I should have allowed for the fact that Lakota relationships could have been interpreted differently!
I'm looking forward to reading more details on Whirlwind Soldier. According to the Big Missouri winter count WS was a leader in the Bad Nation (Oyate Sicha) band, which settled on the north edge of the Rosebud Reservation. Victor Douville, the historian at Sinte Gleska University, told me in 2001 that the Bad Nation band at Rosebud was an offshoot of the Brule Kiyuksa band.
There was a Cheyenne council chief called Spotted Crow, killed in the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864. I wonder if this was the man who married Spotted Tail's sister? If so it hints at the personal grief and tragedy that underwrote Spotted Tail's smoking of the Cheyenne war pipe in December 64 and his leading in the fights at Julesburg and along the Platte in Jan-Feb. 1865.
From Alexander Gardner's group photo taken at Ft Laramie in April 1868 we can see that WS was by then part of the Spotted Tail 'bodyguard'. The treaty commission brought ST and a party of his headmen to Ft Laramie by rail and stage from the Upper Platte Agency. WS was likely one of these men.
Kingsley
I'm looking forward to reading more details on Whirlwind Soldier. According to the Big Missouri winter count WS was a leader in the Bad Nation (Oyate Sicha) band, which settled on the north edge of the Rosebud Reservation. Victor Douville, the historian at Sinte Gleska University, told me in 2001 that the Bad Nation band at Rosebud was an offshoot of the Brule Kiyuksa band.
There was a Cheyenne council chief called Spotted Crow, killed in the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864. I wonder if this was the man who married Spotted Tail's sister? If so it hints at the personal grief and tragedy that underwrote Spotted Tail's smoking of the Cheyenne war pipe in December 64 and his leading in the fights at Julesburg and along the Platte in Jan-Feb. 1865.
From Alexander Gardner's group photo taken at Ft Laramie in April 1868 we can see that WS was by then part of the Spotted Tail 'bodyguard'. The treaty commission brought ST and a party of his headmen to Ft Laramie by rail and stage from the Upper Platte Agency. WS was likely one of these men.
Kingsley
