Lone Horn
Tribal chief, Deceased Person
1790 – 1877
Who was Lone Horn?
Lone Horn, also called One Horn, born in present day South Dakota, was chief of the Minneconjou Lakota.
Lone Horn's sons were Spotted Elk and Touch the Clouds, and Crazy Horse was his nephew. He participated in the signing of the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, which reads "Heh-won-ge-chat, his x mark, One Horn" Old Chief Smoke was Lone Horn's maternal uncle.
Lone Horn died near Bear Butte in 1877 from old age. After Lone Horn's death, his adopted son Spotted Elk, who eventually became chief of the Minneconjou and was killed along with his people at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.
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- Born
- 1790
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Sioux
- Profession
- Died
- 1877
Bear Butte
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on July 23, 2013
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