Hollow Horn Bear Quotes

Hollow Horn Bear was a Brulé Lakota leader. He fought in many of the battles of the Sioux Wars, including the Battle of Little Big Horn. As police chief of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, he arrested Crow Dog for the murder of Spotted Tail, and later testified in the case of Ex parte Crow Dog, argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the chief orator and negotiator for the Lakota, making multiple trips to Washington, D.C. to advocate on their behalf, and later taking part in the inaugural parades for both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. He died of pneumonia in Washington after the last of these trips.

He was featured on a 1922 US postage stamp and a 1970 $10 Military Payment Certificate. Some sources record him as the basis for the image on the 1899 US five-dollar silver certificate and other depictions of Native Americans. A historical marker was erected in his honor in South Dakota in 1962. Wikipedia  

✵ 1850 – 15. March 1913
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Famous Hollow Horn Bear Quotes

“The bullets bursted [sic] at the time of the war, and we used to die with bullets, but now let us die quietly.”

During negotiations with Crook and others, in [Books on Google Play Congressional Serial Set, 1890, U.S. Government Printing Office, https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ0ZAAAAYAAJ, 1 March 2018, 59]

“Mr. Lelar gave me a paper for the arrest of Crow Dog. Found defendant on a hill between White River and Rosebud Creek, where I made the arrest. Defendant had no clothes at the time, except a blanket, breechclout, and leggings and was on horseback. I did as I was ordered and took defendant to Fort Niobara.”

On the arrest of Crow Dog, in [Harring, Sidney L., Crow Dog's Case: A Chapter in the Legal History of Tribal Sovereignty Harring, American Indian Law Review, 1989, 14, 2, 191-240, http://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/aind14&i=202, 1 March 2018]

“Just a few minutes.”

Response to Walter Mason Camp when asked how long the fighting took on Custer Hill, in [Fox, Richard A., Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined, February 16, 2015, University of Oklahoma Press, 9780806129983, 195, https://books.google.com/books?id=5tazBgAAQBAJ, 1 March 2018]

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