Originally named Jumping Badger, he was known as Hunkesni, or "Slow", until he counted his first coup against the Crows at age fourteen.
Originally named Jumping Badger, he was known as Hunkesni, or "Slow", until he counted his first coup against the Crows at age fourteen. As chieftain of the Hunkpapa he participated at the battle of Killdeer Mountain during the Minnesota uprising of 1863 and performed the cut-flesh sun sacrifice to ensure his people's victory at Rosebud Creek, though this left him too weak to play an active role at the battle with which he is most often associated. FTP name this Sioux and one-time member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show known by the English equivalent of Tatanka-Iyotanka, who helped encourage his tribe to defeat Custer at Little Big Horn.
Originally named Jumping Badger, he was known as Hunkesni, or "Slow", until he counted his first coup against the Crows at age fourteen.
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