Also known as (?) Mato Wanahtaka.
3,5,6,7 The nationality of
Chief (?) Kicking Bear was Oyuhkpe Teton Lakota.
1 Chief (?) Kicking Bear was born in 1846; "He was an Uniapapa warrior that killed some of Reno's soldiers as they fled across the river at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. He was later a prophet of the Ghost Dance religion at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1890."
1,3 He was the son of
Chief (?) Black Fox and
(?) Iron Cedar Woman.
1,2 Another source states that his was also listed with a birthdate in 1852.
5,6,7 Chief (?) Kicking Bear was war in 1876 at Little Big Horn. He lived after 1890 at
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Wounded Knee District, Shannon Co., South Dakota, USA; "One of the major Oglala bands of the 19th Century was the Oyuhkpe, which settled on Pine Ridge Reservation in the Wounded Knee District. In the 19th Century its great leaders included such chiefs as Tobacco, White Plume, Black Fox, the latter’s son Kicking Bear, and Big Road – in every case men with strong links to the Northern Lakota divisions. The band has always had very strong Miniconjou connections. It is my belief that the Oyuhkpe band actually was part of the Miniconjou oyate for much of the period 1760-1830. Subsequently they shifted back to the Oglala circle, but continued to maintain very strong Northern Lakota links – especially Miniconjou, but also to the Itazipco and Hunkpapa – until the reservation system terminated the old migratory way of life. Crazy Horse had very strong ties to this band – indeed an agency document from 1874 states that he was an Oyuhkpe. One Oyuhkpe sub-band was known as the Wakan or Sacred band (it may be the outfit to which Kicking Bear’s family belonged). My reconstruction of early Lakota history suggests that this was a very conservative band, with strong links to the Calf Pipe Keepers; sister tiyospaye existed among the Itazipco and Hunkpapa."-[Bray].
1 He lived after 1891; "...Kicking Bear was chosen as the subject of a life mask because of his fame, for neither his prominence among the Sioux nor his personal religious quest ended with surrender in 1891. After several months as a prisoner at Fort Sheridan near Chicago, he was freed to tour Europe with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. When anthropologists fashioned his life mask in 1896, he happened to be in Washington, DC as one of three delegates taking Sioux grievances to the Office of Indian Affairs.
Transcripts from the Indian Affairs meetings the week of March 4, 1896, show that he respectfully chastised the commissioner about white traders who got "drunk and foolish" on the reservation, and asked that Indians have more leeway to make their own decisions.
Soon after his Washington visit, he turned up in Montana as a Presbyterian missionary, preaching, among other things, the story of Jonah and the Whale. But by 1902 he had abandoned Christianity and was teaching new converts the the ways of the Ghost Dance again."
3 He married
(?) Wood Pecker before 1892.
5,6,7 (?) was listed as the "Head of the Household" on the US Indian Census Rolls at
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, White Clay District, Shannon Co., South Dakota, USA, on July 1, 1892.
5 (?) was listed as the "Head of the Household" on the US Indian Census Rolls at
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, White Clay District, Shannon Co., South Dakota, USA, on July 1, 1894.
6 Chief Kicking Bear. [between 1891 and 1904?]. Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library.
(?) was listed as the "Head of the Household" on the US Indian Census Rolls at
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, White Clay District, Shannon Co., South Dakota, USA, on June 30, 1895.
7 He died on May 28, 1904 at
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Manderson, Shannon Co., South Dakota, USA; Before Kicking Bear died, he went out to the grave of his father, Black Fox, lifted Black Fox's skull from its resting place and dislodged the Crow arrowhead that had killed him. "When Kicking Bear, one of the last of the Sioux fighting men, died in 1904 at the age of 58, he was buried with this arrowhead, a symbol of the lost world he had longed so passionately to resurrect."[357]
"He died May 28, 1904 and he may be buried in the vicinity of Manderson, South Dakota. This would make his age at his death about fifty-one years."[358].
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