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Records Relating to Spotted Tail's Murder & Wanda Spotted Tail, 1879-1882; 1919-1922.
Arranged chronologically by date of correspondence. This series consists of records of the murder of Spotted Tail in 1881 by Crow Dog, and the later attempt by a Wanda Spotted Tail to prove that she was Spotted Tail's daughter and therefore gain an allotment on the Rosebud Reservation. The murder correspondence includes narratives of the events of the murder, attempt to secure funding for the appeal of Crow Dog's death sentence, and a copy of the Abstract of Plaintiff in Error. The Wanda Spotted Tail correspondence contains her letters to the superintendent at Rosebud and copies of his replies, as well as other correspondence in her campaign to be acknowledged as the daughter of Spotted Tail. The testimony of Spotted Tail's son William to the effect that Wanda Spotted Tail is not his sister and he knows nothing about her is also included. |
