(1820-), #16477 — Blue Horse – Oglala – 1872 Blue Horse was born in 1820; SHON-KEE-TOH.
(1820-), #16477 — Blue Horse – Oglala – 1872 Blue Horse was born in 1820; SHON-KEE-TOH. "His principal object in life was to try to make others happy around him". Oglala Lakota Chief Blue Horse (1822-1908), Sunka Wakan To, was the second son of Old Chief Smoke and Burnt Her Woman, and the biological brother of Chief Big Mouth. Chief Red Cloud was the adopted brother of Chief Blue Horse. Red Cloud was adopted by Old Chief Smoke, his maternal uncle, around 1825 at the age of three after Red Cloud’s parents died. Blue Horse and Red Cloud were raised as brothers and mentored by Old Chi He witnessed the meeting of Chief Dull Knife; The Treaty of Fort Laramie was an agreement between the United States and the Lakota nation, signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. The Powder River Country was to be henceforth closed to all whites. The t...