Wagluhe

The seven Bands of the Oglala Lakota are the Wágluȟe (Loafers), Ite Sica (Bad Face), Oyukpe (Broken Off), Wazaza (Shred Into Strips), Tapisleca (Split Liver), Payabaya (Shove Aside) and Kiyaksa (Little Wound).

In 1849, Old Chief Smoke moved his Wágluȟe camp to Ft. Laramie, Wyoming when the U.S. Army first garrisoned the old trading post to protect and supply wagon trains of white migrants along the Oregon Trail.

Wágluȟe from the Great Plains Wars chose to offer their services to Colonel "Buffalo Bill" Cody and appreciated that Wild West shows preserved Oglala Lakota heritage during a time when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was intent on promoting Native assimilation.

On his appearance, he was seized by two warriors, who held him fast, while Spotted Tail drew a pistol, placed it against his body, and shot Chief Big Mouth dead.

He had a rifle in one hand and a strung bow and a bunch of arrows in the other, and when he dropped his blanket, two navy Colts and a big scalping knife could be seen in their sheaths at his belt.

Some hours later, Blue Horse came to agent Poole's office and told he that he felt so sad over the death of his great and good brother that he would have to wash off the paint he had put on his face for the feast the day before and begin mourning.

"[5] Poole later reported that Chief Spotted Tail made a prompt payment of a stipulated number of ponies to Blue Horse and that aboriginal law had been vindicated.

Some Wágluȟe went north to the Powder River country fight in Red Cloud's War and became closely tied to militant Minneconjou, Sans Arc and Hunkpappa.

[8] In 1890, Native American historian Charles Alexander Eastman recorded his first meeting with Chief Blue Horse at Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota.

Eastman recorded that "Blue Horse had been, as he claimed, a friend to the white man, for he was one of the first Sioux U.S. Army Indian Scouts, and also one of the first to cross the ocean with Buffalo Bill."

Wágluȟe U.S. Army Indian Scouts from the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, were the first Oglala Lakota to travel with Col. William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his Wild West throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Veterans from the Great Plains Wars chose to offer their services to Colonel "Buffalo Bill" Cody and appreciated that Wild Westing preserved Oglala Lakota heritage during a time when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was intent on promoting Native assimilation.

In 1849, Old Chief Smoke moved his Wágluȟe camp to Ft. Laramie, Wyoming .
Chief Blue Horse , left, and Chief Big Mouth , Wágluȟe Band, Oglala Lakota . Twin sons of Old Chief Smoke .
In 1864, Old Chief Smoke died and was placed on a scaffold near sight of his beloved Ft. Laramie .
The Murder of Chief Big Mouth by Chief Spotted Tail , 1869
Children of Wágluȟe leaders attended the first class at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, PA in 1879.
Wágluȟe leaders after the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. Left to right: American Horse , Three Bears and Red Shirt .
Charles Alexander Eastman (February 19, 1858 – January 8, 1939) was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer and reformer. " Blue Horse had been as he claimed, a friend to the white man."