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Crow Dog (Kangi Sunka)

Tribe : Brule Sioux

Crow Dog was present when CRAZY HORSE was killed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, in 1877, he helped prevent a retaliatory attack on U.S. Army soldiers at the fort. He was police chief at the Rosebud Reservation in 1879-1880, during which time he assassinated SPOTTED TAIL. Crow Dog was born at Horse Stealing Creek, Montana Territory, into a family of esteemed warriors. Before submitting to reservation life, he made his reputation in battle. As the Sioux were confined on reservations following the CUSTER battle at the Little Bighorn, dissension arose among some of their leaders. On one occasion, Spotted Tail was accused by RED CLOUD of pocketing the proceeds from a sale of tribal land. Crow Dog heard rumors that Spotted Tail was selling Lakota land to the railroads, building himself an enormous white-styled mansion with proceeds. In mid-July 1880, Spoted Tail was called before the general council by Crow Dog's White Horse Group, where he denied the charges. The council voted to retain him as head chief, but Crow Dog continued to assert the chief's complicity in various crimes against the people. Crow Dog carried out his own death sentence on Spotted Tail on August 5, 1881. Blood money was paid in traditional BRULE fashion for the crime. Crow Dog was also convicted of murder in a Dakota Territory court; he was later freed on order of the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the territorial government had no jurisdiction over the crime. Later, Crow Dog was one of the leaders in popularizing WOVOKA's Ghost Dance among the Lakota. Crow Dog adopted the religion from SHORT BULL. Crow Dog vociferously opposed U.S. Army occupation of South Dakota Indian reservations and was one of the last holdouts after the massacre of BIG FOOT's people at the Wounded Knee during December 1890. Crow Dog spent the last years of his life in relative peace on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

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One Bull

fl.1880s-1890s

Year of birth and year of death not exactly known. One of Sitting Bull's closest allies, One Bull was a major force in keeping discipline among the Hunkpapas during the difficult years of exile in Canada. This was often carried out the auspices of akicita, a form of discipline in which people who had offended the consensus of the tribe had to atone for their actions under a cloud of public dishonor. In one incident while in Canada, Gray Eagle, Sitting Bull's brother-in-law, stole 150 Metis horses, causing trouble with Canadian officials. Sitting Bull summoned the culprits with One Bull and his akicita (police troupe), who fired over their heads as they returned the stolen horses to Sitting Bull's camp. In 1880, One Bull rode back into the United States, stopping at Fort Buford to determine what sort of welcome would be awaiting Sitting Bull's band if they were to return to the United States. He was told that the Hunkpapas would have to give up their weapons and horses and accept life at a reservation agency. Despite the stringent conditions, One Bull returned convinced that surrender was the only alternative. Once Sitting Bull had surrendered, One Bull, like GALL, was used by the Anglos to undermine the chief's authority. One Bull joined Agent James McLaughlin's agency police force and signed agreements ceding Sioux land for settlement in the late 1880's. He fades from the historical record after Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.

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Charles Curtis

Vice-president of the United States

(1929 - 1933)

born Jan. 25, 1860 North Topeka, Kansas

died Feb. 8, 1936 Washington D.C.

First Native Kansan to serve in U.S. Senate

(Has record of being member of most subcommittees at one time)

First to serve as U.S. Republican Senate Majority Leader

(By The Way - Bob Dole was the second one)

First Republican Floor Leader for Senate

First Native American as Vice-president.

Only native Kansan as Vice-president or President.

(Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas)

~hvahrt/ksstudies/Spacer_.gif"First Vice-president from West of the Mississippi

First Vice-president to take oath with a Bible.

First Vice-president to light Whitehouse Christmas tree, 1932

Charles Curtis was born near North Topeka, Kansas. Of part Native American background, Curtis lived for three years on a Kaw reservation. After studying law with a Topeka attorney, he was admitted to the bar (1881) and entered Republican politics in Kansas. He served in the U.S. Congress (1892â€“1906), where he championed Native American rights to self-government with the Curtis Act (1898). He served in the U.S. Senate from 1907 to 1913 and from 1915 to 1929. He was a fiscal conservative and generally supported farm and veterans' benefits. After an unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination, he became Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1928. Once elected, he played little part in the administration, but in 1932 he again ran with Hoover in his unsuccessful try for a second term.

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