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