Chief Blue Hors

Chief Blue Horse

(1820-), — Blue Horse – Oglala – 1872 Blue Horse was born in 1820; SHON-KEE-TOH.

"His principal object in life was to try to make others happy around him". Oglala Lakota Chief Blue Horse (1822-1908), Sunka Wakan To, was the second son of Old Chief Smoke and Burnt Her Woman, and the biological brother of Chief Big Mouth. Chief Red Cloud was the adopted brother of Chief Blue Horse. Red Cloud was adopted by Old Chief Smoke, his maternal uncle, around 1825 at the age of three after Red Cloud’s parents died. Blue Horse and Red Cloud were raised as brothers and mentored by Old Chi

He witnessed the meeting of Chief Dull Knife; The Treaty of Fort Laramie was an agreement between the United States and the Lakota nation, signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. The Powder River Country was to be henceforth closed to all whites. The treaty ended Red Cloud's War. The treaty included articles intended to "insure the civilisation" of the Lakota; financial incentives for them to farm land and become competitive - and stipulations that minors should be provided with an "English education" at a "mission building". To this end the US government included in the treaty that white teachers, blacksmiths and a farmer, a miller, a carpenter, an engineer and a government agent should take up residence within the reservation. Repeated violations of the otherwise exclusive rights to the land by gold prospectors led to the Black Hills War.