George Sword
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: George Sword was an important Oglala political and religious leader who aided his people's transition to reservation life and who helped record information on traditional Lakota social and religious life for posterity.
A member of the Oglala branch of the Lakota or Teton Sioux, George Sword (Miwakan) was born around 1847 in what is now western South Dakota. As a boy, he distinguished himself in buffalo hunting and warfare—the two most important activities of Lakota men before they were put on reservations. While he was still a young man, the...
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