Spotted Tail

Spotted Tail

Sinte Gleska or Sinte Gleśka (pronounced "gleh-shka", Spotted Tail) was a Brulé Lakota tribal chief. Although a great warrior in his youth, he declined to participate in Red Cloud's War*cite book
author=Brown, Dee
title=Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
publisher=Bantam Books
year=1970
id=ISBN 0-5531-1979-6] , having become convinced of the pointlessness of opposing the white incursions into his beloved homeland; he became a statesman, speaking for peace and defending the rights of his tribe. In 1871, he visited Washington D.C., to meet Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ely S. Parker and President Ulysses Grant; there he met with rival Red Cloud and agreed to work together.

He was a contemporary of Crazy Horse, and his sisters Iron Between Horns and Kills Enemy were said to have married Crazy Horse's widowed father. He was described as being born either in 1823 or 1833.

In 1881, following the Black Hills War, Spotted Tail was killed by Crow Dog for reasons that may be disputed. According to historian Dee Brown: :"White officials ... dismissed the killing as the culmination of a quarrel over a woman, but Spotted Tail's friends said that it was the result of a plot to break the power of the chiefs...".*cite book
author=Brown, Dee
title=Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
publisher=Bantam Books
year=1970
id=ISBN 0-5531-1979-6] He is buried in Rosebud, South Dakota.cite web
url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7878706
title=Find A Grave: Spotted Tail
accessdate=December 08|accessyear=2006]

Legacy

A tribal university (Sinte Gleska University) on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota was named for him in 1971. [ [http://www.sintegleska.edu/about/spottedTail.html History of Sinte Gleska] Sinte Gleska University ]

ee also

* Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia
* Paha Sapa (The Black Hills)
* Crazy Horse

References


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