Running Antelope
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Running Antelope was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, orator, and diplomat. He was one of four Hunkpapa "shirt-wearers", acting as a close advisor to Sitting Bull during the Plains Indian Wars. He believed t
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1899 United States five-dollar Silver Certificate with an image of Running Antelope wearing an Indian peace medal depicting President Andrew Johnson
Sioux
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The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America. The Sioux have two major linguistic divisions: the Dakota and Lakota pe
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…societies. By the time he reached manhood, white people were more numerous, and the Native Americans were forced to adapt to the new conditions. Many Sioux took up arms and became strong in warfare; the Hunkpapas, one of the smaller bands of the Tetons, became one of the strongest. Running Antelope, however…
Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man, c. 1831 – December 15, 1890.
Chief Black Tail Deer and his family at the 1904 World's Fair
Thiyóšpaye at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, c. 1890
Ledger artwork by Lakota artist Black Hawk representing a heyókȟa, (dreamer of a Wakíŋyaŋ, thunder being), c.1880