SPOTTED TAIL
(Siŋté Glešká)
The meeting included several Indians, President Grant, and the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Indians had been offered $25,000 and land in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in exchange for moving from their traditional lands.
The Indians did not have the wheel when the whites came, but soon there were wagons, stage coaches and railroads.
For giving such wise counsel, he was killed by a young militant.
Spotted Tail was a Brulé Lakota tribal chief. Although a great warrior in his youth, and having taken part in the Grattan massacre, he declined to participate in Red Cloud's War. He had become convinced of the futility of opposing the white incursions into his homeland; he became a statesman, speaking for peace and defending the rights of his tribe.
