Spotted Tail


Spotted Tail (b. Sinte Gleska)

(?1833–81) Brûlé Sioux leader; born along the White River in present-day South Dakota or near present-day Laramie, Wyo. A signer of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868—in which the U.S. government accepted the territorial claims of the Sioux in exchange for peace—he traveled often to Washington, D.C., as the government-appointed chief of the agency Sioux.