Article: After crow dog shot spotted tail, Brule law did not end the matter: Crow Dog's attorney appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.(INDIAN LIFE)

Bad blood boiled between Brule Sioux leaders Spotted Tail (Sinte Gleska) and Crow Dog (Kangi Sunka). On the afternoon of August 5, 1881, Crow Dog left a tribal council at the Rosebud Agency and--with wife Pretty Camp and a child--started by wagon on the nine-mile drive home. The meeting had not resolved the men's long-running political and personal disputes. In fact, Crow Dog and other council members had voiced their displeasure with Spotted Tail for taking a female relative of Crow Dog away from her disabled husband. It was their opinion Spotted Tail must return the woman to her husband.

Crow Dog's route home would take him past Spotted Tail's new ...

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