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I have the Diary of Lt. J. G. Bourke, for 1881, when he attended the Pine Ridge Sun Dance.​​
He met Young Man Afraid of His Horse, and he remarks that YMA was the half-brother of Spotted Eagle, who was a war-leader of the “hostile” Sans Arcs who had been in exile in Canada, 1877-81, with Sitting Bull. From that I deduce that YMA’s mother was also the mother of Spotted Eagle, presumably by another marriage. Possibly she was a Sans Arc (ItazipcoI, or one of the orther Northern divisions of the Lakota.

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Kingsley Bray

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