Find A Grave - Shannon County

Big Foot, Chief b. 1823 d. December 29, 1890
Native American Chief. Big Foot and his people lived on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota and were among the strongest belivers in the Ghost Dance ceremony when it arrived among the Lakota in the spring of 1890. The hunger and misery that had followed the final break-up of the reservation in 1889 made the Lakota keenly receptive to the Ghost Dance message of messianic renewal, and the movement swept rapidly through their encampments, causing local Indian Agents to react with alarm...[Read More] (Bio by: Mongoose)
Wounded Knee Monument, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Plot: Mass Grave
Knife, Bloody b. 1840 d. June 25, 1876
American Indian Scout. Born in or around 1840 near the present day Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota Territory, his father was Hunkpapa and his mother was Arikara. Ridiculed in his childhood by other Indians because of his mixed blood, after the Civil War he served as an Indian Scout for General Alfred Sully's 4th United States Cavalry. In 1868 he enlisted as an Indian scout at Fort Stevenson, and in 1872, after the establishment of Fort Lincoln, and the arrival of the 7th United States...[Read More] (Bio by: Maverick1862)
Red Cloud Cemetery, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Little Sky, Eddie b. August 15, 1926 d. September 5, 1997
Actor. Born Edsel Wallace Little Sky in South Dakota, he was noted for playing Indian Chiefs, and native warriors, in several Western films and classic television shows. He is most remembered for his role as 'Black Eagle' in the 1970 film, "A Man Called Horse." Little Sky's other roles include the films, "Tomahawk Trail" (1957), "Apache Warrior" (1957), "Gun Fever" (1958), "Tonka" (1958), "Heller In Pink Tights" (1960), "Buffalo Gun" (1961), "7 Faces Of Dr. Lao" (1964), "The Hallelujah Trail" (...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Little Cemetery, Oglala, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Lost Bird, Zintkala Nuni b. May, 1890 d. February 14, 1919

Lost Bird Story Summary

In the spring or summer of 1890, Lost Bird was born somewhere on the prairies of South Dakota. Fate took her to Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation on Dec. 29, 1890.

On that tragic day, hundreds of Lakota men, women and children died in a confrontation with U.S. troops and the woman who likely was the child's mother was among them. But as she was dying, she and her baby found some scanty shelter from the bitter...[Read More] (Bio by: DanaD.)
Wounded Knee Monument, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Pourier, Baptiste 'Big Bat' b. July 16, 1843 d. September 17, 1928
Western Frontiersman. He was a Frenchman who left home on an expedition at the age of 15 to trade with the Indians, and it was this early contact that made him into one of the most acclaimed scout guides and interpreter of the times. During these trading trips, he met Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud and their friendship endured until Red Cloud's death. He was called "Big Bat" to distinguish him from Baptiste Garnier, another scout for the military. On his first trip to Wyoming he met John...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Red Cloud Cemetery, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Red Cloud (Makhpiya-Luta) b. 1822 d. 1909
Red Cloud, chief of the Oglala Lakota, for years frustrated efforts of the United States government to open up the West. From 1859 on he and his warriors, living near Fort Laramie, Wyoming attacked whites encroaching on Indian Territory along the North Platte River. By 1865 he was effectively discouraging white intrusion by way of the Bozeman trail. Red Cloud led the 1866 massacre of 80 troops from Fort Kearney, one of the posts built to protect the trail, an event that led to the abandonment...[Read More]
Red Cloud Cemetery, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Wolf, Long b. 1833 d. June, 1892
Lakota. Long Wolf (Sungmanitu Haska) was born about 1833 but little is known of his early years except that he took in the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Long Wolf joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show, and with his wife, and 12 year old daughter Lizzie, he traveled with the show on its European tour. In 1892 the troupe was in England where Long Wolf contracted bronchial pneumonia and died aged about 59. An autopsy was carried out in a West London Hospital, where the report described a...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Wolf Creek Cemetery, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Wounded Knee Monument
Wounded Knee monument on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. On December 29, 1890, the Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. They were surrounded by US troops who were to disarm and arrest them. Sitting Bull had been murdered just days before. During a meeting to try and come to a truce, a shot from an unknown party was fired; this anonymous shot started the massacre. Indians ran to get their guns and defend themselves, but the...[Read More]
Wounded Knee Monument, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Chief (Tasunka Kopipapi) b. 1830 d. 1900
Oglala Chief. Born Tasunka Kokipapi which roughly translates to ‘the man of whose horse we are afraid' meaning that the bearer of the name was so feared in battle that the mere sight of his horse inspired fear. During the Red Cloud War of 1866, he was one of the leading lieutenants for Red Cloud. After the peace of 1868, however, he lived at the Oglala agency and strongly advocated peace with the Americans. He was made President of the Pine Ridge Indian Council and made several trips to...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Makasan Presbyterian Cemetery, Oglala, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA

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