Hollow Horn Bear

thumb Hollow Horn Bear (Lakota, Matȟó Héȟloǧeča) (March 1850 – March 15, 1913) was a Brulé Lakota leader during the Indian Wars on the Great Plains of the United States. 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 [Speaking to a crowd regarding the sale of tribal land to the US Government] My friends, you have all heard what my father-in-law says, but I do not think he is right. He believes what the white people tell him; but this is only another trick of the whites to take our land away from us, and they have played these tricks before. We do not want to trust the white people. They come to use with sweet talk, but they do not mean it. We will not sign any more papers for these white men. Standing Bear Luther My People the Sioux November 1, 2006 University of Nebraska Press 9780803293328 211-12 https://books.google.com/books?id=ltSXg-abnU4C 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 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 About the hides I will ask you. Those that are killed on the block. That ought to go to the poor people and the old women. The Great Father [US Government] when we went down there said he would agree to take all our hides at $3 apiece, but we don’t get that and I wish you would fix that again. I would rather get $4 for my hides. There are a good many poor people and old women that have no one to look out for them, and they ought to get those hides. 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 64 Quotes about Hollow Horn Bear One of the handsomest men in his race. His profile ... reminds one of Alexander the Great, so strong and chaste it is outline ... a good type of intellectual and progressive man. The biographer of Frederick Cummins, in Dodge Richard Irving Rogers Will The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge 2000 University of Oklahoma Press 9780806182131 https://books.google.com/books?id=fV83-1F8-bkC 1 March 2018 62 Talking to you through an interpreter is a good deal like a man trying to kiss his wife through a pane of glass. A weary William Warner during negations with Hollow Horn Bear over the sale of Sioux lands, in Burnham Philip Indian Country, God's Country: Native Americans And The National Parks 2000 Island Press 9781475959024 https://books.google.com/books?id=V41_zxAzoWsC 1 March 2018 34 Captain Cragie U. S. A. arrived from the Rosebud agency. He says that Hollow Horn Bear is inciting the Indians. The hostiles will permit no freight to be handled until the old rate is restored. The captain looks for trouble very soon. News report in Inciting Indians to Hostility https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50413231/?terms=%22Hollow+Horn+Bear%22 2 March 2018 The Brooklyn Eagle September 11, 1895 Hollow Horn Bear was a friend of the white people and a Christian. He had few equals among his people. Father W. H. Ketcham, speaking at the funeral service in Washington D.C., in Christian Rites for Big Chief, Impressive Services Held at Washington for Chief Hollow Horn Bear, After Ceremonies Body was Taken west to its Last Resting Place https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042242/1913-03-21/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1789&index=0&rows=20&words=Bear+Hollow+Horn&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=%22Hollow+Horn+Bear%22&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 2 March 2018 The Bismarck Tribune March 21, 1913 Hollow Horn Bear hopes to take home about 50,000 copies of his picture on the $5 certificates. On his travel to the Indian Bureau in an attempt to secure around $300,000 in payment to his tribe, in Hollow Horn Bear at Indian Bureau https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn98069055/1909-02-05/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1789&index=1&rows=20&words=Bear+Hollow+Horn&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=%22Hollow+Horn+Bear%22&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 2 March 2018 The Aberdeen Democrat February 05, 1909 Misattributed Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you too will die. Attributed to John Hollow Horn, 1932, in Wilson James The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America December 1, 2007 Grove/Atlantic, Inc 9780802136800 https://books.google.com/books?id=IKm9XRhws0kC 3 March 2018 External links Hollow Horn Bear Hollow Horn Bear Category:People from Nebraska Category:Native American military leaders Category:1913 deaths Category:1850 births Category:Lakota Category:Orators from the United States