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Spotted Tail

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Spotted Tail (b. Sinte Gleska) (?1833–81) Brûlé Sioux leader; born along the White River in present-day South Dakota or near present-day Laramie, Wyo. A signer of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868—in which the U.S. government accepted the territorial claims of the Sioux in exchange for peace—he traveled often to Washington, D.C., as the government-appointed chief of the agency Sioux.
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Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, leaders who had earlier adopted white ways, were jealous and spread rumors that Crazy Horse would betray the army and that he only wanted his own freedom.
Crazy Horse remains an enigma by Meili, Dianne / Windspeaker
In the famous Gardner photo of the Sioux chiefs standing in a line, the young Spotted Tail is standing at far left wearing a set of large hairplates.
1868 Sioux at Fort Laramie: photographs from the Smithsonian ... by Chronister, Allen / Whispering Wind
The attention paid Crazy Horse was offensive to Spotted Tail and the Indian scouts, who planned a conspiracy against him.
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