Spotted Tail

American  

noun

1. Sinte-galeshka, 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.

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Example Sentences

"We'd like to see that land back," said Rosebud Sioux Chief John Spotted Tail during a 2018 speech at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

From Salon

It was the prosecution of Spotted Tail’s murderer, and the ensuing jurisdictional battle between the Lakota and the federal government, that led to the passage of the Major Crimes Act in 1885, which to this day limits Native people from prosecuting serious felonies on their own lands.

From Los Angeles Times

Last fall, Weiden published an award-winning middle-school biography of Chief Spotted Tail, a peace-loving Lakota chief who refused to fight in an 1860s Indian war against the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

Besides assering an earlier start to Ogallala’s trailhead period, he said, it suggests the Texas Trail supplied not only eastern markets but also the Oglala and Brulé Lakota bands being supplied by federal cattle buyers at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies in northern Nebraska.

From Washington Times

Light Hair was glad to find Spotted Tail, his uncle, among them.

From Literature