He Dog

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He Dog (Lakota :? ÃÆ'º? ka BlokÃÆ'¡) (about 1840-1936). A member of Lakota Oglala, He Dog was closely associated with Crazy Horse during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77.

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Biography

Born in the spring of 1840 on the headwaters of the Cheyenne River near the Black Hills, He Dog is the son of a village head named Black Stone and his wife, Blue Day, Red Cloud's sister. His younger brother is Grant Short Bull. In the 1860s, He Dog and his brothers have formed a small Oglala Lakota band known as Cankahuhan or Soreback Band that is closely related to the band Bad Face Red Cloud of Oglala.

He Dog and his relatives participated in the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. After the treaty commission failed to persuade the Lakota people to leave the Black Hills, the President requested an ultimatum sent in January 1876 to the northern bands to come to agents or be forced by the army. He Dog camped with the Soreback band on the Tongue River when the message was delivered. He's Dog's brother, Short Bull, later recalls that the majority of northern Oglala decided to go to the Red Cloud Agency in the spring, after their last big buffalo hunt. In March 1876, He Dog married a young woman named Rock ( Inyan ) and with part of the Soreback Band, pausing briefly with the Northern Cheyenne camped on the Powder River in Wyoming County. On the morning of March 17, 1876, a line of troops under Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds was attacked. "This attack is the turning point of the situation," Short Bull said later. "Had it not been for the Crook attack on the Powder River, we'd go to the emerging agency, and there would be no Sioux war."

During the summer of 1876, He Dog participated in the Battle of the Rosebud and the Battle of Little Bighorn. He also fought at Slim Buttes in September 1876 and Wolf Mountain in January 1877. He finally surrendered at the Red Cloud Agency with Crazy Horse in May 1877. After the Crazy Horse killing, He Dog accompanied Oglala to Washington, DC as a delegate. to meet the President.

He Dog and other members of the Soreback Band escaped from the Red Cloud Agency after his transfer to the Missouri River during the winter of 1877-78. Crossing into Canada, they join Sitting Bull in exile for the next two years. Most of the northern Oglala surrendered in Fort Keogh in 1880 and then moved to the Standing Rock Agency in the summer of 1881. He Dog and all of northern Oglala eventually transferred to Pine Ridge Reserves to join their families in the spring of 1882..

He Dog lives the rest of his life in Pine Ridge Reservation. He served as a respected and later Indian judge, interviewed by a number of historians, including Walter Mason Camp, Eleanor Hinman and Mari Sandoz. He died in 1936.

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Portrait

• By D. S. Mitchell, 1877.
• By Mathew Brady, Washington, D.C., 1877. Library of Congress
• By Charles M. Bell, Washington, D.C., 1877. Smithsonian Institution and Oglala Lakota College.
• By Charles M. Bell, Washington, D.C., 1877. Smithsonian Institution and Oglala Lakota College.
• By Alexander Gardner, Washington, D.C., 1877. Smithsonian Institution and Oglala Lakota College.
• By L. T. Butterfield, Sioux Fall, SD, 1891. The Denver Public Library and Yale University and the New York Public Library.
• The photographer and date are unknown, around the year. 1928. Oglala Lakota College.
• The photographer and date are unknown, around the year. 1928. Oglala Lakota College.
• He Dog House, Pine Ridge Reservation, 1928. Unknown photographer. Oglala Lakota College.

Unknown Portrait

• By John A. Anderson, around the year. 1900. Library of Congress. This portrait is actually from a school principal Brulà © also named He Dog.

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Interview

• He Dog interview, July 13, 1910, with Walter Mason Camp, at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
• He Dog Interview, August 1920, with General H. L. Scott.
• He's a Dog Interview with Eleanor Hinman, 1930

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Note

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Bibliography

• Dickson, Ephriam. 2006. "Reconstruction of Indian Village in Little Bighorn: The Cankahuhan or Soreback Band, Oglala" Greasy Grass , vol. 22 no. 1: 2-14

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