Auguste Lucien was a bad choice as translator when U.S. troops confronted Sioux leaders in August 1854. He was drunk, didn’t speak Sioux languages...
Cross Talk A bad translator may have led to a massacre.
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A Leader Of His People Spotted Tail led the Sioux by example.
Spotted Tail was a Brule chief in Wyoming Territory. He was involved in the Grattan Massacre, in which 29 soldiers were killed. Spotted Tail then...