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Bare Foot
Si Chola
Blackfoot Lakota
1790s-1850s

Son: Used As A Shield (Grass I)

 

Bear Foot is a mistake for Bare Foot, Si Chola, the paternal grandfather of John Grass. He was probably born in the 1790s, and was a prominent Sihasapa headman in the 1840s and 1850s. F. V. Hayden's band list (ca. 1857) lists him as chief of the Jawbone (Che Hupa) band. Unfortunately, this is the only mention of that band. According to the Welch papers, Bare Foot was born an Oglala, and married into the Sihasapa. In 1823 he was one of the war-leaders in the Lakota force enlisted by Col. Leavenworth to fight the Arikaras. In 1851 he attended the Horse Creek Treaty councils. At some point in the 1850s his son Used As A Shield (or Grass I, father of John Grass) succeeded him as chief. Used As A Shield was prominent Sihasapa leader from ca. 1855 through 1872 (when he was part of the Grand River Agency delegation to Washington). He must have died in 1873 or '74, because his son John Grass starts to appear as chief in 1875. Grass senior's widows are listed in the Standing Rock Agency censuses (my run begins in 1876).

— Kingsley Bray

 

 

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