Question: Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza is often mistaken by historians for a star performer with what?

Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century.  For a while he was a history professor at Columbia University but his influence came from hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science.  His works included a radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States, who he believed were motivated more by economics than by philosophical principles.  Beard's most influential book, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States "(1913), has been the subject of great controversy ever since its publication.  While frequently criticized for its methodology and conclusions, it was responsible for a wide-ranging reinterpretation of American history of the founding era.  He was also the co-author with his wife Mary Beard of "The Rise of American Civilization" (1927), which had a major influence on American historians. <SEP>  After George Armstrong Custer's defeat, Wasu Maza followed Sitting Bull into exile in Canada and then back to South Dakota where he lived on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.  Chief Iron Hail is often mistaken by historians for Chief Iron Tail, being Lakota contemporaries with similar-sounding names. Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza ("Iron Hail", 1858–1955) was a Minneconjou Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager.  Most biographies incorrectly report that Chief Iron Tail fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and that his family was killed in 1890 at Wounded Knee, when in truth it was Chief Iron Hail who suffered the loss. <SEP> Joseph Horn Cloud born 1873 and died September 18, 1920.  His father was Horn Cloud and mother Nest, both parents died at the Wounded Knee Massacre along with two brothers William Horn Cloud (1876-1890), Sherman Horn Cloud (1865-1890) and a niece.  Joseph was a survivor of the massacre as well as his brother Daniel and half brother Dewey Beard [p. 89-95].  Dewey's mother was Yellow Leaf who also died during the massacre.  In the early 1900s a writer named Eli S. Ricker began research for a book he was going to call "The Final Conflict between the Red Men and the Palefaces."  He gathered sources and interviews about conditions and battles on the Plains during the last half of the 1800s.  He recorded the interviews in small note pads known to historians as the "Ricker Tablets."  One such interview was with Joseph telling Ricker what he witnessed at the Wounded Knee Massacre, "When the shooting began the women ran to the ravine.  The shooting was in every direction.  Soldiers shot into one another... Many of the Indians in the circle were killed.  Many of them mingled with the soldiers behind them, picking up guns from dead soldiers and taking cartridge belts." <SEP>  Iron Tail was one of the most famous Native American celebrities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a popular subject for professional photographers who circulated his image across the continents. Iron Tail (Oglala Lakota: "Siŋté Máza" in Standard Lakota Orthography) (1842-May 29, 1916) was an Oglala Lakota Chief and a star performer with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.  Iron Tail is notable in American history for his distinctive profile on the Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel of 1913 to 1938.