Gall (chief)
Pizi , also Matohinshdar , better known as Gall (* around 1840 on the Moreau River, South Dakota ; † December 5, 1894 in Oak Creek , South Dakota), was a war chief of the Hunkpapa - Lakota - Sioux who played a leading role in the war against the United States had.
Gall, who was orphaned early , is said to have got his name after eating the bile of an animal that a neighbor had previously killed. He grew up with Sitting Bull.
From 1866 to 1868 he fought alongside Red Cloud . On 26 and 27 June 1876, he drove with his warriors in the Battle of the Little Bighorn out the troops under Major Marcus Reno from the camp of the Hunkpapa, from where he then Crazy Horse joined in the fight against Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer . They besieged Reno's group and the Benteen battalion that had meanwhile moved up until the following day. In the afternoon the Indians surprisingly withdrew.
After the battle, Gall fled to Canada with Sitting Bull . After disagreements with Sitting Bull, he returned to the United States with his group in 1880. He surrendered to the US Army on January 1, 1881 and moved to the Standing Rock Reservation (Dakota Territory). In 1889 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Indian Offenses on the Standing Rock Reservation. He died on December 5, 1894 at his home in Oak Creek.
literature
- Larson, Robert W .: GALL - Lakota War Chief, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007, ISBN 0-8061-4036-4
- Dee Brown : Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee"). Knaur Verlag, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-426-62804-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Gall" , The West: The People , PBS, 2001, accessed Oct 24, 2009
- ^ A b Gall in Frederick Webb Hodge (Ed.): Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico . United States Government Printing Office , Washington 1907-1910
This article is based on the article Gall ( memento of July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the free encyclopedia Indianer-Wiki ( Memento of March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and is under Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 . A list of the authors was available in the Indian Wiki ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gall |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pizi; Matohinshdar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian war chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Dakota , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1894 |
| Place of death | Oak Creek (South Dakota) , South Dakota , United States |