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Bull Bear

Oglala

 

 

Bull Bear was the ranking leader of the Oglala Kuhinyan band, whose hunting range had shifted south of the North Platte River. The Kuhinyan band probably counted 130 or more lodges in 1840-41, comprising a number of sub-bands; e.g., Kiyuksa, Tasnahecha, Red Water, and so on. The feud that resulted in the killing of Bull Bear was within the Kuhinyan, dissension focussing on the faction led by Smoke. Bull Bear was killed probably in early December 1841. Smoke's adherents fled north from the Kuhinyan winter camp on Chugwater Creek and joined the Hunkpatila band on the South Fork of Cheyenne River, trader David Adams noting their arrival. Ultimately the Smoke faction, crystalising as the Bad Face band, became part of the greater Hunkpatila band. Growing in strength, by the 1860s, the Bad Face name was often extended to cover the whole of the larger grouping. — Kingsley Bray

 

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