Lone Horn

One Horn
Chief
Painting by George Catlin of the Honorable Chief Ha-wón-je-tah, 1832
SuccessorChief Spotted Elk
Bornx. 1790
Died1877 (aged 86–87)
Bear Butte
SpouseSand Bar
IssueSpotted Elk
FatherBlack Buffalo
MotherWhite Cow Woman

Lone Horn (Lakota: Hewáŋžiča, or in historical spelling "Heh-won-ge-chat" or "Ha-wón-je-tah"), also called One Horn (c. 1790 –1877), born in present-day South Dakota, was chief of the Wakpokinyan (Flies Along the Stream) band of the Minneconjou Lakota.

Lone Horn's sons were Spotted Elk (later known as Big Foot) and Touch the Clouds, Rattling Blanket Woman was his sister, and Crazy Horse was his nephew.[1] He participated in the signing of the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, which reads "Heh-won-ge-chat, his x mark, One Horn".[2] Old Chief Smoke (1774–1864) 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 eventually became chief of the Minneconjou and was later killed along with his people at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.

  1. ^ Sundstrom, Linea. "The Thin Elk/Steamboat Winter Count". Saint Francis Mission. Archived from the original on February 24, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2007.
  2. ^ "Fort Laramie Treaty". Creighton.edu. Archived from the original on December 16, 2010.

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