Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike (Primeaux & Mike)
Primeaux & Mike are best known for their Native American Church and Peyote songs. In 2002 Bless the People won the Grammy for Best Native American Album and the Nammy for Best Traditional Recording.
Red Cloud
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Red Cloud’s last words to his people
Red Cloud gave this farewell address to the Lakota people on July 4, 1903, as he anticipated death approaching.
Red Cloud (Mahpiya Luta), Oglalla Sioux
Red Cloud was born about 1819 near the forks of the Platte River. He was one of a family of nine children whose father, an able and respected warrior, reared his son under the old Spartan regime.
Crazy Horse (Tashunkewitko), Oglala Sioux
Crazy Horse (Tashunkewitko) was born on the Republican River about 1845. He was killed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, in 1877, so that he lived barely thirty-three years.
American Horse (Oglalla Sioux)
One of the wittiest and shrewdest of the Sioux chiefs was American Horse, who succeeded to the name and position of an uncle, killed in the battle of Slim Buttes in 1876. The younger American Horse was born a little…
Rain-in-the-Face (Itonagaju), Hunkpapa Sioux
Hits: 5557 The noted Hunkpapa Sioux warrior, Rain-in-the-Face, (Ité Omáǧažu or Itonagaju), whose name once carried terror to every part of the frontier, died at his home on the Standing Rock reserve in North Dakota on September 14, 1905. About two…