page_title: Spotted Elk
section_title: Death at Wounded Knee Massacre
hierarchical_section_title: Spotted Elk / Death at Wounded Knee Massacre
caption_attribution_description: English: Miniconjou chief Spotted Elk (aka. Bigfoot) lies dead in the snow after massacre at Wounded Knee. Dead Bigfoot Lakotas leader Spotted Elk, (called by soldiers Bigfoot), after the massacre of Wounded Knee (photo of January 1, 1891). Carl Smith described him as January 7, 1891 in the "Chicago Inter-Ocean ': Big Foot lay as if in dignified seclusion ... Clad in civilian clothes decent, his head wrapped in a shawl. He wore a woolen underwear and pointed to the overall look of someone fairly well cared. He had several gunshot wounds, and if he could realize what hurt him, the signs have quite disappeared. Itinerant photographer propped the old man, and when he lay helpless, his portrait done ... But he spared the usual treatment for a nice appearance. ---- Polski: Martwy wódz Lakotów Wielka Stopa (ang. Big Foot) po masakrze nad Wounded Knee (zdjęcie z 1 stycznia 1891). Carl Smith tak opisywał go 7 stycznia 1891 w "Chicago Inter-Ocean": Wielka Stopa spoczywał jakby w godnym odosobnieniu... Odziany w przyzwoite cywilne ubranie, głowę miał owiniętą szalem. Nosił wełnianą bieliznę a ogólny wygląd wskazywał na kogoś dość dobrze zadbanego. Miał kilka ran postrzałowych i jeśli zdążył zdać sobie sprawę z tego, co go raniło, to oznaki tego całkiem zniknęły. Wędrowny fotograf podparł starca, a gdy leżał bezbronny, zrobiono mu portret... Oszczędzono mu jednak zwyczajowych zabiegów o miły wygląd.
context_page_description: Spotted Elk, was the name of a chief of the Miniconjou, Lakota Sioux. He was a son of Miniconjou chief Lone Horn and became a chief upon his father's death. He was a highly renowned chief with skills in war and negotiations. A United States Army soldier, at Fort Bennett, coined the nickname Big Foot – not to be confused with Oglala Big Foot.
  In 1890, he was killed by the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA with at least 150 members of his tribe, in what became known as the Wounded Knee Massacre.
caption: Native American Chief Spotted Elk lies dead after the massacre of Wounded Knee, 1890
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