Joseph M. Marshall III (42 page)

My grandfather Charles was tall and very distinguished. He and my maternal grandfather, Albert, had a deep mutual respect. Grandpa Charles, in his life, was a rancher, a gold miner (having worked in the Homestake Gold Mine in the Black Hills), and an ordained Episcopalian deacon. I remember watching him play baseball when he was fifty-five years old. He was the son of a Frenchman, Joseph Marshall (probably originally Marichale). (Joseph and his brother, Francis [François] had an interesting journey that eventually led them to the Pine Ridge Reservation, via Fort Yankton and Fort Laramie, among other places. They both married Lakota women and raised large families.)

Many of these people from Rosebud and Pine Ridge were related to me, or took me as a relative. Each of them gave me a piece of themselves because of a story or stories they told me, or because they taught me something. My grandfather Albert taught me to make bows and arrows, for example. Grandpa Isaac Knife taught his son, Israel (my cousin), and me to weave fish traps out of sandbar willows. I can’t remember who it was that taught me how to play the Snow Snake game first, sliding willow rods on the river ice. All my grandmothers showed me about beading and quilling, and hide tanning. The list goes on and on. Most of all they all taught me to be aware of who and what I am, and always to be proud of it.

Suggested Reading

Andrist, Ralph K.,
The Long Death.
Macmillan, 1964.

Brown, Dee A.,
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
Bantam, 1970.

Buecher, Thomas R., ed.,
The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger.
Nebraska Historical Society, 1994.

Hardoff, Richard G.,
The Oglala Lakota Crazy Horse: A Preliminary Genealogical Study and an Annotated Listing of Primary Sources.
J.M. Carroll and Company, 1985.

Kadlecek, Edward, and Mabel Kadlecek,
To Kill an Eagle: Indian Views on the Last Days of Crazy Horse.
Johnson Books, 1995.

Sandoz, Mari,
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas.
University of Nebraska Press, 1942.

Scott, Douglas D., Richard A. Fox, Jr., Melissa A. Conner, and Dick Harmon,
Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
University of Oklahoma, 2000.

Index

Adventure

Afghanistan

Agencies

Crazy Horse offered

Lakota disarmed on

order to report to

of Red Cloud

of Spotted Tail

Allotment (Dawes) Act of 1887

Ambrose, Stephen

American Horse (Long Knife Horse)

Annuities

Antelope

Apache

Arikara

Arrows, crafting of

Ash Creek

 

Backbone.
See
High Back Bone

Badger, grizzly bear and

Bad Heart Bull

Bad Wound

Battle of the Hundred in the Hand (Fetterman Battle)

Battle of the Little Bighorn (Greasy Grass Fight)

Battle of the Rosebud

Bear Butte

Bear Coat (Nelson Miles)

Beaver Creek

Beaver Mountain

Big Horn (Shining) Mountains

Big Horn River

Big Nose

Big Road

Bird Ash

Black Buffalo Woman

Black Crow

Blackfeet

Fort Laramie Treaty Council and

Black Hills (the heart of all things)

Crazy Horse in

government’s offer to buy

whites in

whites’ supposed ownership of

Black Kettle

Black Moon

Black Shawl

Crazy Horse’s second wife and

daughter of

daughter’s death and

Black Shield

Black Twin

Blind Wolf

Blue Clouds

Blue Water River

Bordeaux, Jim

Bordeaux, Louie

Bows, crafting of

“The Lightning Bow,”

Bozeman Trail (Powder River Road)

Bozeman Trail (Powder River) War

Broken Hand (Thomas Fitzpatrick)

Buffalo (bison)

lodges made from hides of

whites and

Buffalo Calf Road

Buffalo Creek

Bureau of Indian Affairs

 

Calendar, Lakota

Camp Robinson

Canada (Grandmother’s Land)

Canvas lodges

Carrington, Henry

Chalk Buttes

Chips

Chiracahua Apache

Christianity

Clark, White Hat

Comanche

Comes in Sight

Conquering Bear

Cottonwood Creek

Councils at Horse Creek:

Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851

Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868

Cow incident.
See
Grattan incident

Crane, Stephen

Crazy Horse (
Tasunke Witko;
Light Hair;
Jiji
):

agencies and

agency offered to

in Battle of the Little Bighorn (Greasy Grass Fight)

birth of

Black Buffalo Woman and

in Black Hills

bows of

boyhood of

brother of.
See
Little Hawk (Little Cloud; Crazy Horse’s brother)

Camp Robinson journey of

daughter of.
See
They Are Afraid of Her

death of

dream of

Elk River ambush and

father of.
See
Worm

in Fetterman Battle (Battle of the Hundred in the Hand)

as fighting man

Gathering the Warriors ritual invoked by

Grattan incident and

hair of

Hollywood portrayals of

horses of

as hunter

leadership of

Little Thunder camp attack and

mentors of.
See also
High Back Bone

mothers of ;
See also
Rattling Blanket Woman

myths and legends surrounding

names of

No Water’s shooting of

petroglyph carved by

photographs of

on raids

in Rosebud Fight

as Shirt Wearer

sister of

surrender of

in sweat lodge

turning points in life of

weapons of

whites as viewed by

whites battled by

wives of.
See also
Black Shawl

worries of

Crazy Horse (Worm; father of Crazy Horse).
See
Worm

Crazy Horse and Custer
(Ambrose)

Crazy Woman Creek

Crook, George.
See
Three Stars

Crow (Absaroka)

Fort Laramie Treaty Council and

Crow (Absaroka) (
cont.
)

raids on

soldiers and

Crow King

Custer, George (Long Hair)

 

Dakota

Dawes (Allotment) Act of 1887

Death

Decoy actions

Deer

Deer Creek

Denver

Dull Knife

 

Eastern Shoshoni.
See
Snakes

Elk

Elk Mountain

Elk (Yellowstone) River

ambush at

Euro-Americans.
See
Whites

 

Fast Thunder

Fetterman, William

Fetterman Battle (Battle of the Hundred in the Hand)

Fitzpatrick, Thomas (Broken Hand)

Fleming, Commander

Fort Caspar

Fort Fetterman

Fort Laramie

cow incident and.
See
Grattan incident

Fort Laramie (Horse Creek) treaties:

of 1851

of 1868

Fort Phil Kearny

Fort Reno

Fouts, Captain William D

 

Gall

Gathering the Warriors

Geronimo

Gold

in Black Hills

Good Weasel

Goose Creek

Grabber

Grandmother’s Land (Canada)

Grasshoppers

Grattan, John

Grattan incident (cow incident)

Greasy Grass Fight (Battle of the Little Bighorn)

Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) River

Great Muddy (Missouri) River

Great Sioux Reservation

Grizzly bear, badger and

Gros Ventures

 

Harney, Woman Killer

Harney Peak

He Dog

in Battle of the Little Bighorn

on Camp Robinson journey

on raids

as Shirt Wearer

Hero stories

Heyoka

Hidatsa

High Back Bone (Hump; Backbone)

ash stave given to Crazy Horse by

death of

Fort Phil Kearny and

Grattan incident and

in raid in Snake country

High Back Wolf

High Bear

His Enemies Are Afraid of His Horses.
See
Young Man Whose Enemies Are Afraid of His Horses

Holy Road (Shell River trail)

Honoring songs

Horse Creek (Fort Laramie) treaties:

of 1851

of 1868

Horses

taken from Lakota

Hump.
See
High Back Bone

Hunkpapa Lakota

Hunkpatila

Hunting

crafting bows for

by Crazy Horse

See also
Buffalo; Deer; Elk

 

Ihanktunwan Dakota

Indian Nation

Iron Plume

Iron Shell

Itazipacola Lakota

 

Jipala

Joseph, Chief

Julesburg

 

Kiowa

 

Lakota

at agencies.
See
Agencies

Black Hills and.
See
Black Hills

calendar of

childrearing among

Fort Laramie and.
See
Fort Laramie

Lakota (
cont.
)

Grattan incident (cow incident) and

honoring songs of

as hunters ;
See also
Hunting

land ownership by

Loafers

oral tradition among

on reservations

subgroups of

Sun Dance ceremonies of

territory of

warriors.
See
Warriors

whites as viewed by ;
See also
Whites

L’Amour, Louis

Land ownership

Larrabee, Joe

Laramie.
See
Fort Laramie

La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de

Leadership

of Crazy Horse

of Sitting Bull

Lee, Lieutenant

Lewis and Clark

“Lightning Bow, The,”

Little Bighorn, Battle of the (Greasy Grass Fight)

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

Little Bighorn River (Greasy Grass River)

Little Big Man

Little Hawk (Crazy Horse’s uncle)

Little Hawk (Little Cloud; Crazy Horse’s brother)

death of

gold seekers and

hunting by

new name given to

in Red Cloud’s band

Little Shield

Little Thunder

attack on camp of

Little White River (Smoking Earth River)

Loafers (Loaf About the Forts)

Lodge coverings

Lodge Trail Ridge

Lone Bear

death of

gold seekers and

Grattan incident and

Lone Horns

Long Face

Long Hair (George Custer)

Long Knife Horse (American Horse)

Long Knives.
See
Soldiers

Loup River

 

Man Afraid.
See
Young Man Whose Enemies Are Afraid of His Horses

Mandan

Man Whose Enemies Are Afraid of His Horses,
See
Young Man Whose Enemies Are Afraid of His Horses

Marshall, Joseph M., III:

boyhood of

grandparents of

McMurtry, Larry

Medicine Bow Mountains

Medicine men

Crazy Horse’s father as

Medicine Tail Coulee

Medicine Water

Miles, Nelson (Bear Coat)

Miners.
See
Gold

Mniconju Lakota

Montana

Moonlight

 

Nakota

Nebraska