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Spotted Tail

Brulé Sioux chief, Native American leader (1823–1881)

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Also known as Siŋté Glešká · Sinte Gleska

Born: 1823
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2015-10-16
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, 1833
Died: August 5, 1881
Birthplace: South Dakota
Place of death: South Dakota
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: politician
Positions held: traditional leader or chief
Languages spoken, written or signed: Lakota

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Spotted Tail was a Sichangu Lakota tribal chief. Famed as a great warrior since his youth, warring on Ute, Pawnee and Absaroke ('Crow'), and having taken a leading part in the Grattan Massacre, he led his warriors in the Colorado and Platte River uprising after the massacre perpetrated by John M. Chivington's Colorado Volunteers on the peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho camping on Sand Creek, but declined to participate in Red Cloud's War.

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SSinte Gleska University1970 · American Indian tribal college

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Sex or gender: male
Place of burial: Spotted Tail Gravesite
Name in native language: Siŋté Glešká
Cause of death: gunshot wound
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1.sdhspress.com/journal/south-dakota-history-28-4/the-anatomy-of-a-lakota-shooting-crow-dog-and-spotted-tail-1879-1881/vol-28-no-4-the-anatomy-of-a-lakota-shooting.pdf
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Manner of death: homicide
Killed by: Crow Dog
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1.nativepartnership.org/spotted-tail-1823-1881/
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