Spotted Tail

Spotted Tail
(Sinte-galeshka)
1833?-81, Brulé Sioux leader.

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▪ Sioux leader
also called  Sinte-galeshka  
born c. 1833, , Ft. Laramie [Wyoming], U.S.
died Aug. 5, 1881, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota

      chief of the Brule Teton Indians and, briefly, the Oglala Sioux who sought compromise and accommodation with the invading whites.

      Spotted Tail was not a member of a ruling family, but he won the chieftainship over the hereditary claimant on the basis of his prowess as a warrior. In 1855 he, along with two other warriors, surrendered to white authorities to prevent punishment of the tribe in the wake of an attack on a military detachment. Spotted Tail spent two years in prison and was regarded as a hero among his people upon release.

      In 1865 Spotted Tail, in opposition to fellow Sioux chief Red Cloud, favoured allowing white gold-seekers to travel through Indian lands to reach the mines of Montana. In 1868 he signed a treaty confining his people to a reservation in South Dakota and conceding the right of way for a railroad to be built on Indian land. When gold was discovered in the Black Hills, Spotted Tail attempted to negotiate sale of the mineral rights to the U.S. government. But his price ($60,000,000) was too high, and U.S. officials allowed miners to seek gold in the Black Hills without compensation to the Sioux.

      Recognizing the futility of resistance, Spotted Tail refused to go on the warpath even when prospectors swarmed over Indian lands. He kept his followers out of the conflicts of 1876—including Little Big Horn—and he helped persuade Crazy Horse to surrender in 1877.

      Spotted Tail assumed leadership of the Oglala as well as the Brule Teton Sioux when Red Cloud was deposed in 1881. Shortly thereafter he was assassinated as he left a council meeting by a fellow tribesman named Crow Dog.

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