Spotted Tail
Americannoun
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"We'd like to see that land back," said Rosebud Sioux Chief John Spotted Tail during a 2018 speech at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
From Salon • Aug. 30, 2023
Last fall, Weiden published an award-winning middle-school biography of Chief Spotted Tail, a peace-loving Lakota chief who refused to fight in an 1860s Indian war against the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2020
Public buildings across the reservation were locked down at about 1:30 or 2 p.m. while the search for the suspect took place, tribal representative Donald Spotted Tail said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2011
Spotted Tail said students were released Monday evening and told to stay home until the suspect is arrested.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2011
“So the Lakota leaders, like Spotted Tail, knew the odds were against us. It was like one cricket trying to fight off a thousand hungry ants.”
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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