Brulé

The Brulé are one of the seven branches or bands (sometimes called "sub-tribes") of the Teton (Titonwan) Lakota Sioux American Indian nation. They are known as Sicangu Oyate, or "Burnt Thighs Nation," and so, were called Brulé (lit. "burnt") by the French. (The name may have derived from an incident where they were fleeing through a grass fire on the plains.) Many Sicangu people live on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Southwestern South Dakota, with a small population living on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation, on the west bank of the Missouri River. The two tribes are completely independent of each other, politically.

Famous Sicangu (Brulé)

* Standing Elk (Brulé) (to be distinguished from Standing Elk (Cheyenne) and
* Spotted Tail or "Sinte Gleska"

These men were Brulé chiefs at the time of Red Cloud's War*cite book
author=Brown, Dee
title=Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, ch. 6
publisher=Bantam Books
year=1970
id=ISBN 0-5531-1979-6]

* Short Bull was a well-known Sicangu holy man, who brought the Ghost Dance to the Lakota in South Dakota in 1890.

References

External links

* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/siouan/brulehist.htm Indian genealogy]
* [http://www.mnisose.org/profiles/rosebud.htm Rosebud Sioux]
* [http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/ Official website of the Sicangu Oyate]