Native American Indian, Medicine Man and Ghost Dancer. Born into the Oglala band of the Lakota or Teton Sioux. First wife was a Cheyenne. He was highly respected within the Cheyenne Nation. Married into the Miniconjou band of the Lakota or Teton Sioux. Became a Miniconjou band chief. Mother's name: Wood Pecker, Father's name: Black Fox. Nephew of Sitting Bull and cousin of Crazy Horse. Indian council appointed him along with his brother-in-law Short Bull to attend a religious ghost dance ceremony in Utah, held by Wovoka, a Piute Indian. After learning the ghost dance Kicking Bear along with Short Bull taught the ritual to the Sioux Nation. He delivered a persuasive speech to the Sioux Nation assuring and sealing their belief in the ghost dance ritual. This movement led indirectly to the Wounded Knee Massacre. After the Wounded Knee Massacre he was arrested and sent to Fort Sheridan, Illinois and served a year in prison. After agreeing to join Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show his sentence was commuted. He toured with Cody's Wild West Show for a year in Europe. Humiliated, he returned to his family on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Kicking Bear fought honorably in the Black Hills Wars, specifically, in the Battle of the Little Big Horn along side Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Rain In The Face, against Custer and his 7th Calvary. Twenty years later he painted a scene of the battlefield. After painting this depiction it seems that Kicking Bear slowly faded away into the history of the old west.

Native American Indian, Medicine Man and Ghost Dancer. Born into the Oglala band of the Lakota or Teton Sioux. First wife was a Cheyenne. He was highly respected within the Cheyenne Nation. Married into the Miniconjou band of the Lakota or Teton Sioux. Became a Miniconjou band chief. Mother's name: Wood Pecker, Father's name: Black Fox. Nephew of Sitting Bull and cousin of Crazy Horse. Indian council appointed him along with his brother-in-law Short Bull to attend a religious ghost dance ceremony in Utah, held by Wovoka, a Piute Indian. After learning the ghost dance Kicking Bear along with Short Bull taught the ritual to the Sioux Nation. He delivered a persuasive speech to the Sioux Nation assuring and sealing their belief in the ghost dance ritual. This movement led indirectly to the Wounded Knee Massacre. After the Wounded Knee Massacre he was arrested and sent to Fort Sheridan, Illinois and served a year in prison. After agreeing to join Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show his sentence was commuted. He toured with Cody's Wild West Show for a year in Europe. Humiliated, he returned to his family on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Kicking Bear fought honorably in the Black Hills Wars, specifically, in the Battle of the Little Big Horn along side Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Rain In The Face, against Custer and his 7th Calvary. Twenty years later he painted a scene of the battlefield. After painting this depiction it seems that Kicking Bear slowly faded away into the history of the old west.

Bio by: Bedford W. Sipes