The PINE RIDGE Issued Forms List Over 1300 Ogalalla Sioux Indians

Rare unissued form for subsistence allowances issued to "individual and heads of families of OGALALLA SIOUX tribe Indians…at the Pine Ridge Agency South Dakota", 22 pp. large folio, c. 1890, and lists over 1300 Indians by "Indian Name" and "English Name". Listed among the recipients is "Mahpiyainta" with his English name "Red Cloud" listed beside; Hehakagleska "Spotted Elk"; Matociqala "Little Bear"; Matosapa "Black Bear"; Matonajin "Standing Bear"; Pizi "Gall"; Robert Wasicuntasunke "Robert American Horse" and many more. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, when soldiers of the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry attempted to disarm a band of Lakota Sioux led by Spotted Elk. During the tense encounter, a shot was fired and the soldiers opened fire on the Lakota camp. The resulting massacre left an estimated 150-300 Lakota men, women, and children dead, while 25 U.S. soldiers were killed, many likely by friendly fire. The tragedy is widely regarded as the final major event of the American Indian Wars and remains one of the most infamous episodes in the history of U.S.-Native American relations. Included in those Natives was Hehakagleska "Spotted Elk", killed at wounded knee; Robert American Horse, killed at Wounded Knee; Matonajin "Standing Bear" was touring with Buffalo Bill at the time of the massacre, but his wife and children were victims. This is a researchers playground.