Stranger Horse

 

    Brule/Sicangu Sioux, was a warrior in his youth. However, during the turbulent years of 1876 and 1877, he served as a scout in the U.S. Army forces under General Crook.

During the early reservation period, he settled in the Butte Creek District of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation near Wood, South Dakota. He made several trips to Washington, D.C. In 1921, he was a guest of President Harding. He was the recipient of two Washington Peace Medals which are now in the Anderson Collection at the Sioux Indian Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota.

Stranger Horse died in 1922 at the age of 78.

 

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