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Bear's Head

Hunkpapa

 

 

FORT WALSH, October 17, 1877.

The commission assembled at 3 o'clock p. m. in Major Walsh's quarters. Present: General Terry, General Lawrence, Capt. H. C. Corbin, and Mr. Jay Stone, a stenographer. Lieutenant-Colonel McLeod, Major Walsh, and other officers of the mounted police were also present.

The Indian chiefs were then brought is and their names announced, as follows: Bear's Head, head chief of the Uncapapas; Sitting Bull, The Spotted Eagle, The Flying Bird, The Whirlwind Bear, The Medicine-turns-around, The Iron, Dog, The-man-that-scatters-the-Bear, Little Knife, The Crow, and Yellow Dog. — Dietmar Schulte-Möhring

I was reminded of the prominence of Bear's Head in that period; the document actually calls him the head chief of the Hunkpapa. Perhaps he was one of the Deciders (Wakicunze) appointed for that year in the non-treaty Hunkpapa village once it reconstituted in Canada? I think Pretty Bear is also accorded prominence in this period too; again, he seems to fall into relative obscurity. — Kingsley Bray

 

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