Dewey Beard
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Dewey Beard (Iron Hail) | |
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Wasú Máza | |
Minneconjou , Lakota leader | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1858 |
Died | 1955 | (aged 96–97)
Military service | |
Battles/wars | Battle of the Little Bighorn |
Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza ("Iron Hail", 1858–1955) was a
Iron Hail joined the
Dewey Beard changed his name from Iron Hail when he converted to
In the early 1940s Beard and his wife Alice were raising horses on their land on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In 1942 the Department of War annexed 341,725 acres (138,291 ha) of the reservation for use as an aerial gunnery and bombing range. Beard's family was among the 125 Lakota families uprooted from their homes. They were compensated by the government for their land in installments which were too low to enable them to afford more property, and as a result they both moved into a poor section of Rapid City.
When he died in 1955 at the age of ninety six, Dewey Beard was the last known Lakota survivor of the
References
- ^ Voices of Wounded Knee(p.46-48) http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Voices-of-Wounded-Knee,673530.aspx
- ^ Burnham, Philip (2014). Song of Dewey Beard: last survivor of the Little Bighorn. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803269361
- ^ Voices of the American West: The Indian interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 By Eli Seavey Ricker p. 208-226
- ^ Library of Congress: Dewey Beard interview (audio recordings) https://lccn.loc.gov/2009655342
- Burnham, Philip (2014). Song of Dewey Beard: last survivor of the Little Bighorn. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803269361.
External links
- Works by Dewey Beard at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)