Red Eagle Helps Chiefettes

[Diane Merkel]

Do any of our Indian genealogists know who Red Eagle's great grandfather was?

That's when Wrenn and Chiefettes parents went to the Wagon Wheel Flea Market and found Red Eagle, a 59-year-old Native American Indian from the Lakota Sioux tribe, and that's when Red Eagle's hands went to work on hundreds of white turkey feathers (yes there are white turkeys) and thousands of beads.

A few months later, 35 Chiefette color guard members, dancers and drum majors had 30 white feathers and 2,500 beads in each of their headdresses. In four floor-length versions, there were 90 feathers and 3,500 beads.

Red Eagle, whose great grandfather fought at Little Big Horn and was killed in the massacre at Wounded Knee, said it made him as happy as could be. No, he saw no problem with helping a high school whose mascot is the Chiefs. "I see it as an honor," he said.

Article: www.tbo.com/sports/MGBNAT6788F.html

["Hunk" Papa]

Goddess, there is an Elk Head AKA Red Eagle listed as at LBH in Friends of LBH website. He is shown as a Sans Arc born in 1825 who died at the Green Grass Cheyenne River Reservation, no date given.
If your Red Eagle is Sans Arc, it might be a place to start.

Hunk

[Diane Merkel]

One of your tribe (Hunkpapa) named Red Eagle signed the Laramie Treaty (www.littlebighorn.info/Articles/lara68.htm). I'm not sure how the nomenclature and genealogy works and if the name would have crossed the bands.

I thought it was a sweet story.

[ladonna]

There are no Red Eagle today here at least as a family.
If they were in Chamberlin SD you have to look to those
Southern tribes

[Diane Merkel]

Thank you, LaDonna.

[ladonna]

That would be Lower burle, Crow Creek, Pine Ridge and Rosebud, Yankton, Flandeau