Chief Blue Horse (Oglala Lakota)
Charcoal
18 x 14
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“Chief Blue Horse”
“Sunkawakan To”
Tribe: Oglala Lakota
1822- 1908
Lakota warrior, statesman, educator and leader of the Oglala Lakota. He is notable in American history as one of the first Lakota U.S. Army Indian scouts, and signatory of the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868. He lost his right eye sometime after 1880 while splitting wood, and wrote to President Chester A. Arthur to respectfully request a glass eye. Noted artist E.A. Burbank, who befriended Blue Horse in 1898, stated, “He was a thorough Indian, and extremely kind-hearted. His principal object in life was to try to make others happy around him." Blue Horse and Red Cloud (who was adopted into his family) fought for over 50 years to deflect the worst effects of white rule, and feed, clothe and educate their people and preserve sacred Oglala Lakota land and heritage.
