The Brulé are one of the seven branches or bands (sometimes called "sub-tribes") of the Teton (Titonwan) Lakota Sioux American Indian nation. They are known as Sičháŋǧu Oyáte (in Lakota), or "Burnt Thighs Nation," and so, were called Brulé (lit. "burnt") by the French. (The name may have derived from an incident where they were fleeing through a grass fire on the plains.) Many Sicangu people live on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Southwestern South Dakota, with a small population living on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation, on the west bank of the Missouri River. The two tribes are completely independent of each other, politically.
Famous Sicangu (Brulé)
- Mary Brave Bird, author
- Short Bull was a well-known Sicangu holy man, who brought the Ghost Dance to the Lakota in South Dakota in 1890
- Spotted Tail or "Sinte Gleska", Chief
- Standing Elk (Brulé) (to be distinguished from Standing Elk (Cheyenne), Chief
- Moses Stranger Horse, artist
- Michael Spears, actor
- Eddie Spears, actor
Spotted Tail and Standing Elk were Brulé chiefs at the time of Red Cloud's War[1]
References
- ^ *Brown, Dee (1970). Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, ch. 6. Bantam Books. ISBN 0-5531-1979-6.
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