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White Swan

Miniconjou Lakota

 

 

White Swan: the chief of 1876 was at least the third of this name. His father was implicated in the planning for the Fetterman fight, 1866, and died that same year. White Swan III brought his band, counting approximately 20 lodges, to the just-established Cheyenne River Agency in the fall of 1868. His Glaglaheca band augmented the permanent peace faction of Miniconjous that had been based around Ft Sully for several years: the bands of headmen The Hard (Eat No Dogs band) and One Iron Horn (not to be confused with Lone Horn). Apart from a lengthy visit among the non-treaty bands or winter roamers in the winter of 1869-70, White Swan was a fixture at the agency from that time forward, a key proponent of peace and a delegate to Washington DC in 1870, 1875, and 1888.— Kingsley Bray

 

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