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Young Man Afraid of his Horses at Oglala camp, Pine Ridge, SD, Jan. 17, 1891.

1. Chief Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses

The white man never understood.

On their best days, when they thought they were being generous, they sought only to placate him.

And they even got his name wrong.

Tȟašúŋke Kȟokípȟapi means they fear his horse, as in, the mere sight of his h…

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