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Plenty Horses (Lakota: Tȟašúŋka or Tȟašúŋke Óta, lit. ' 'His-Horses-Are-Plentiful' ' ; 1869–1933) was a Sicangu (Brulé) Lakota from the Rosebud Indian Reservation .
On January 7, 1891, Lieutenant Edward Casey (1850–1891), while on a peace mission to one such group, was shot and killed by Plenty Horses (Tasunka) (1869–1933). Plenty Horses had been educated at the Carlisle Indian School, while Casey’s “good will toward the Indians had been manifested in many ways,” according to his West Point obituary.
For Plenty Horses, his killer, it was part of an ordeal that personalizes in one tragic figure the cultural disaster that befell the American Indians after dwindling land and game forced them to submit to the grim life of the reservation.
20 de sept. de 2018 · Plenty Horses’ Vengeance. The young Brulé Sioux, wanting to avenge the one-sided fight at Wounded Knee, shot down a veteran lieutenant. The U.S. Army touted the December 29, 1890, bloody incident on South Dakota’s Wounded Knee Creek as a battle of such magnitude that 21 of the troops were awarded the Medal of Honor.
Left-hand image: Full length portrait of Plenty Horses posing next to cannon while imprisoned at Fort Meade, South Dakota (near present day Sturgis) for murder of Lt. Edward W. Casey. Buildings and soldiers visible in background. / Right-hand image: Group portrait of Plenty Horses and three unidentified American soldiers holding rifles. Various buildings within grounds of Fort Meade visible in ...
29 de jun. de 2012 · Comments. Copyright 2007 by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Abstract. The U.S. Army excused the killing of one of its officers, Lt. Edward W. Casey, by Plenty Horses, an Oglala Lakota, to maintain its official position that the "incident" at Wounded Knee was a battle, not a massacre.
Portraits of American Indians and Euro-Americans involved in the murder trial of Plenty Horses, a Brulé Dakota Indian accused of killing Lieutenant Edward H. Casey near Pine Ridge Agency. Includes portraits of Plenty Horses alone, and with Living Bear (his father), Phillip H. Wells, and Chris Mathison; and two group portraits of these ...
