Chief Mad Bear is Lower Yanktonais and
recorded on all the census as Lower Yanktonais. His wife
was Santee. His family is as follows:
In
the 1889 Standing Rock Census
Mad Bear- 51 years old
First Woman-51 years old
Cow Walking Woman-23 years old
Helper-18 years old
Pretty Girl-15 years old
Handsome-11 years old
No Help-8 years old
Catherine Mad Bear-4 years old
— LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
Donovin
Sprague has some information about him: “Mad Bear was born
in Minnesota near the Mississippi in 1836. (…) Mad Bear´s
father was Loud Thunder and his mother was Black Lightning
Woman. His brothers include Elk, Crazy Bear, Walks In The
Wind [ ! ], Bobtail Bear, Crow Feather and Black Cloud.
His sister was Refina Mad Bear.” (See Donovin Sprague,
Standing Rock Sioux, Arcadia Publishing, page 11) —
Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
1889
Standing Rock census, I found:
Mad
Bear-Lower Yanktonais age 51
Bear
Paw -Lower Yanktonais age 25
Mad
Bear 2-Lower Yanktonaid age 30
Walks
in the Wind-Lower Yanktonais age 28
Bobtail
Tiger-Lower Yanktonais age 33
— LaDonna Brave Bull Allard