Spotted Elk

Spotted Elk ( Unpan Gleska, sometimes rendered as OH - PONG -GE -LE- SKAH or Hupah Gleska ), but usually wrongly called Big Foot known ( * 1815, † December 29, 1890 at the massacre of Wounded Knee, South Dakota), was chief of the Minneconjou Lakota Sioux.

His English name Big Foot he was by an American soldier in Fort Bennett, of him disparagingly " Si Tanka " ( Sit ȟ Anka, Big Foot ') called. It is, therefore, not to be confused with the Oglala named Ste Si Tanka (also Chetan Keah, Bigfoot ').

Life

Spotted Elk (aka Big Foot ) added with Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and another in 1876 at the Battle of Little Bighorn the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army a very heavy defeat. Here fell General George Custer and a large part of his men.

Later Spotted Elk lived with his people in the Cheyenne River Reservation in what is now the U.S. state of South Dakota.

The Native American Ghost Dance movement led in the late 19th century to uncertainty on the part of the whites as well as many Indians. The movement split the Lakota in a whites -friendly and a hostile group them ( Ghost Dance - trailer). Spotted Elk and his men tried to mediate, but the U.S. Army saw them as a threat, and pursued them. On December 29, 1890, came to the massacre of Wounded Knee. Si Tanka and over 200 men, women and children of his tribe and members of Sitting Bull's tribe, who had joined after the death of Sitting Bull Si Tanka were killing by the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army.

  • Native American chief
  • Born in 1815
  • Died in 1890
  • Man
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