Amos Bad Heart Bull
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Education, Arts
- Subcategories: Painting, Painters, Drawing, Native Americans, American Indians, Historians
- Curriculum: American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: Amos Bad Heart Bull kept an extensive pictographic history of the Oglala Lakota that spanned the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Amos Bad Heart Bull was born into a noted Oglala family. His father, also called Bad Heart Bull, was a band historian who kept a historic record in pictographic form. His uncles, He Dog and Short Bull, and his cousin Crazy Horse were noted warriors active in opposing U.S. encroachments on Lakota lands. Born around 1869, during the final years of the traditional Lakota...
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