Yellow Breast Lakota (abt. 1860)

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Biography

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Yellow Breast was born about 1860. This birth date is a guess.

“(1889) Strange news had come from the west, and people had been talking and talking about it. . . There was a scared man among the Paiutes who had talked to Great Spirit in a vision . . . Good Thunder, Brave Bear, and Yellow Breast were sent to see this sacred man with their own eyes. . . And there they saw the Wanekia (One Who Makes Live) . . . And they talked to him. Wasichus called him Jack Wilson, but his name was Wovoka. . . The people must put this paint on their faces and they must dance a ghost dance that the sacred man taught to Good Thunder, Yellow Breast, and Brave Bear.” Black Elk.

Associated Profiles

John G. Neihardt (1881 - 1973), author of Black Elk Speaks.

Black Elk, was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicine man, holy man"), heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people and educator about his culture. He was a second cousin of the war leader Crazy Horse and fought with Crazy Horse in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Now, December 26, 2017, Black Elk is being considered for Catholic sainthood.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Elk

Wovoka, the Paiute medicine man whose vision became the Ghost Dance Movement.

Good Thunder , Brave Bear , and Yellow Breast , who were taught the Ghost Dance by medicine man Wovoka.

Crazy Horse , Lakota war leader of the Oglala band.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse

Sources

• John G. Neihardt , Black Elk Speaks, [University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1932.], pages 232, 233.