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4 unusual facts about Dewey Beard


Dewey Beard

He recounted his experiences in an in depth interview with Eli S. Ricker, for a book Ricker planned to write.

Chief Iron Hail is often mistaken by historians for Chief Iron Tail, being Lakota contemporaries with similar sounding names.

Iron Hail joined the Ghost Dance movement and was in Spotted Elk's band along with his parents, siblings, wife and child.

Most biographies incorrectly report that Chief Iron Tail fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and that family was killed at in 1890 at Wounded Knee, when it truth it was Chief Iron Hail who suffered the loss.



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