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Martina Blue Earth

Hunkpapa

Last Wife of Chief Gall

 

 

Chief Gall fell in love with Martina, who had been the wife of his comrade Iron Cloud, in 1885. Gall was already married with Stand in Center, a woman older than him, but would have taken Martina as second wife. He then sought advice from agent McLaughlin, telling him that "his heart was good, but sad because he was in love." McLaughlin, however, discouraged him from marrying Martina and Gall apparently gave up his project. He and Martina eventually got officially married on November 12, 1894, two months before Gall 's death. At the time, they had a 9 year old daughter, the evidence that, even without the authorities' consent, they were already married according the Lakota custom.

— jinlian

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