Chief Hollow Horn Bear Story

Item #5021

(November, 1987) After a skirmish with the Brule Sioux Indians in 1855, an army lieutenant found a child alone on the battlefield. He returned it to the Brules. This child was Hollow Horn Bear, the son of Chief Iron Shell. Chief Hollow Horn Bear became a great orator, and was interested in the plight of the Brule Sioux people. He was present at the inaugurations of President Theodore Roosevelt and President Woodrow Wilson. While in Washington he contracted pneumonia and died. His body was shipped back to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota in 1913. His portrait is on the old 14¢ U.S. postage stamp and the old $5.00 currency bill. I worked from three photographs of Chief Hollow Horn Bear taken by pioneer photographer John Anderson, and published in Brule, The Sioux People of the Rosebud by Paul Dyck.

Dr. Thomas F. Clark