While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Little Thunder.
A Brule Sioux chief during the middle of the 19th century.
He was present at the Grattan massacre near Ft Laramie
in 1854, and assumed command when chief Singing Pear was killed; he
also took part in the battle of Ash Hollow, Nebr., with Gen. Harney,
in 1855, and continued chief until his death some years later.
Physically Little Thunder was a giant, fully six feet
six inches tall and large in proportion, and is spoken of as of
superior intelligence.
Big Mouth.
A chief of the Brute Sioux, though all Oglala by descent.
A contemporary of
Spotted Tail, and as highly regarded
by his tribe for his manly and warlike qualities as the latter,
though of less historical
note. He is spoken of (Ind. Aff. Rep., 316, 1869) as one
of the principal chiefs at
Whetstone agency on the
Missouri, where most of the Brute and Oglala bands had gathered.
The stand
taken by Big Mouth in reference to the relations of the Sioux with the
whites caused him to gain
steadily in influence and
power. Spotted Tail, having visited Washington and other cities, where
he was much feted, returned
with changed views as to the
Indian policy, a fact seized upon by Big Mouth to disparage his
rival.
Realizing that the tide was turning against him,
Spotted Tail, in 1873 or
1874, called at the lodge of Big Mouth, who on appearing at the entrance was
seized by two warriors and held by them while Spotted Tail shot him dead.
