Sihasapa (Blackfeet Lakota) at LBH

[nativeeyes]

Ladonna

Yes, his brothers are Chief Mad Bear, Walks In The Wind and Tiger, but I know somewhere I read that Tiger was changed to Bobtail. They seems so similiar. Might be a connection. I did contact Donovan Sprague and mentioned to him my earlier post.

[ladonna]

What do you mean "he"

Saswe the Yankton chief of mixed blood. He was the father of Tipi Sapa, destined to become the famous Philip Deloria.
married Black Foot woman, Siha Sapewin, daughter of Chief Bear Foot.
The father of Saswe was a French trapper, so Saswe decided his own name should be Francois des Lauriers.

[ladonna]

1889 Standing Rock census
I found

Mad Bear-Lower Yanktonais age 51

Bear Paw -Lower Yanktonais age 25

Mad Bear 2-Lower Yanktonaid age 30

Walks in the Wind-Lower Yanktonais age 28

Bobtail Tiger-Lower Yanktonais age 33

I can't find a Bear Foot on the rolls here on Standing Rock
all the names seem to be Lower yanktonais.
Chief Mad Bear is 51 on the rolls here, so maybe these other names come from a different family. None from the Blackfeet list

[ladonna]

Check as far back as i can go 1873 no Bear foot under Blackfeet

[ladonna]

I found a picture of Chief Bear Foot taken by Heyn in 1899
Bear Foot Chief
by Heyn Photo.
Publisher: 1899

[kingsleybray]

Bear Foot is a mistake for Bare Foot, Si Chola, the paternal grandfather of John Grass. He was probably born in the 1790s, and a prominent Sihasapa headman in the 1840's and 1850s. F. V. Hayden's band list (ca. 1857) lists him as chief of the Jawbone (Che Hupa) band. Unfortunately this is the only mention of that band. According to the Welch papers Bare Foot was born an Oglala, and married into the Sihasapa. In 1823 he was one of the war-leaders in the Lakota force enlisted by Col. Leavenworth to fight the Arikaras. In 1851 he attended the Horse Creek Treaty councils. At some point in the 1850s his son Used As A Shield (or Grass I, father of John Grass) succeeded him as chief. Used As A Shield was prominent Sihasapa leader from ca. 1855 through 1872 (when he was part of the Grand River Agency delegation to Washington). He must have died in 1873 or '74, because his son John Grass starts to appear as chief in 1875. Grass senior's widows are listed in the Standing Rock Agency censuses (my run begins in 1876).

Maybe LaDonna can help with Grass senior's date of death??

Hope this helps

Kingsley