Shell Boy (Pankeska Hoksila)
was born about 1836 (the 1900 census says Jan. 1937) and
belonged to the Oyuhpe band of the Oglala (Big
Road's band).
Shell
Boy probably surrendered with Crazy Horse at the Red Cloud
Agency in May 1877 and fled to Canada with the other northern
bands in late 1877 or early 1878. He surrendered with the
Oglala at Fort Keogh in 1880 and was transferred to the
Standing Rock Agency in June 1881. He is recorded in the
census that September. In the Big Road Roster (1881), his
name is mis-recorded as "Shield Boy". He was transferred
with the other Oglala to the Pine Ridge Agency in May 1882.
Shell
Boy married about 1857 to Horse Stands (also known as Horse
Stops or Woman Singer). They had six children, all but one
of which had died by 1900. Their son, Right in the Camp
(later known as Joshua Shell Boy) was born in 1866 and had
a family on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1900.
Shell
is listed in Big Road's band in three different sources:
Big Road roster, the 1881 Standing Rock Agency census and
in the 1890 Pine Ridge Agency census (the Rosetta Stone
for understanding Oglala bands).
Incidentally,
this Shell Boy should not be confused with another northern
Indian by the same name. This other Shell Boy (born c1841)
was a Brule and was transferred from the Standing Rock Agency
to the Rosebud Agency with Bull Dog's band in May 1882.
— Ephriam Dickson
According
to W. Garnett on Sept. 4 1877 Crazy Horse had fled to Spotted
Tail agency with his wife, Kicking Bear and Shell Boy. He
is also mentioned by Utley, organizing one of the ghost
dances on Wounded Knee Creek together with Big Road and
Good Thunder. — Karl
From
the Big Road Roster it seems that Shell Boy was among the
4 akicitas in Big Road's camp with Bear-Looking-Behind,
Dog Eagle and Red-Horn-Bull.
I read somewhere that John Colhoff recorded in 1949 that
in the White Clay District the leader of Siksicela band
was Red Horned Bull. Perhaps he is same with the akicita
Red-Horn-Bull. — Agnes