The Complete Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger from May 6, 1877

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The Complete
Crazy Horse
Surrender Ledger
The U.S. Army's surrender census of Crazy Horse's band

From the official Red Cloud Agency records for May 6, 1877.

Note

Sioux warrior Red Shirt, who surrendered with Crazy Horse in May 1877 HERE IS THE complete Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, the census of Crazy Horse's band compiled by the U.S. Army on May 6, 1877, the day Crazy Horse and his nearly 900 followers surrendered at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

Astonisher.com is pleased to present the complete Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger here -- in an accessible, easily studied form -- for the first time ever.

Access to the full list and the data on lodge composition and children is both fascinating and immediately illuminating.

For instance, it reveals that Crazy Horse shared a lodge with Tall Bull and his family, that Little Big Man was apparently not captured at the Battle of Slim Buttes (as Short Bull recalled 54 years later), that powerful warriors White Twin and Knife Chief were with Crazy Horse when he surrendered, as was Charging Hawk (one of the prime nominees to be Custer's killer -- see Who Killed Custer? for more info).

An amusing sidelight of the Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger is the presence of many scatological names like Shits On His Hand, Pisses In The Horn, Soft Prick, Snatch Stealer, Makes Widows Cry, Tanned Nuts, and the woman, Bull Proof. These names may reflect the Sioux habit of enlisting a winkte (a male transvestite, whom the Sioux believed had the power of prophesy) to give children "joke names."

It has also been suggested that members of Crazy Horse's band may have used these names when they surrendered as a tacit, passive form of disrespect for the surrender process. Another obvious possibility is that these scatological Sioux names were intended to disguise the true identity of the individuals. Who were the last three members of Crazy Horse's band to surrender -- really? We'll never know for sure, but I'll bet they were better known by names other than the ones they gave the gullible Americans: Singing Prick, Stinking Tie, Dog Nothing.

Finally, we are pleased to return one member of Crazy Horse's band -- Scabby Place -- to the list. Somehow, Scabby Place was entirely omitted from the Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger in the difficult and frustrating version published by the Nebraska State Historical Society in 1994. (Scabby Face, page 165 line 1, was on the Nebraska Historical Society's version of the list, but Scabby Place, page 165 line 13, was left out.)

There is also a great deal more information for those who wish to study. So here is the complete Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, as it was taken down in longhand on May 6, 1877 by Lt. Charles A. Johnson and Charles P. Jordan, the chief clerk for the Red Cloud Agency, in globally-searchable form for the first time ever...

-- Bruce Brown
May 6, 2007
Updated April 6, 2011

[Red Cloud Agency] Register May 6, 1877
Crazy Horse Band Sioux

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
1	Thunder Tail White Twin	2	5	1		8
1	Whistler The Bud	2	3		2	7
1	Heap Bear Lays Down One Kills at Eight Steps	2	3			5
1	Crazy Heart Living Bear Hoarse	3	5	3		11
1	Bear Star	1	1			2
1	White Hair White Bear Big Eater	3	4	1	2	10
1	Pretty Legs Iron Magpie	2	4		5	11
1	Bear Bird Wrinkler	2	3	2	1	8
1	War Shanty White Face	2	2		1	5
1	Don't get out of the Way Fat Rump Dry Lake	3	1	2	1	7
1	One brings shit far away	1	3	2	3	9
1	Black Eye Lid	1	1	1	3	6
1	The Last Bull Man White Rabbit Sitting Horse	4	1	3	3	11
1	Likes to Fight	1	2		2	5

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
14	Brought forward from page 163	24	38	15	23	105
1	Widow (W)		1	2	1	4
1	Skunk Head	1	2		1	4
1	Gets Married (W)		2	2	1	5
1	Thunder Hawk	1	1	1		3
1	Crossways	1	1	1		3
1	Brings News (W)		3	2	1	6
1	Big Belly Mule Top Lodge Iroquois Imitation Yellow Left	2	2	1	3	8
1	Belly Inside	1	2	2	3	8
1	Gets Together	1	1	2	2	6
1	Pisses in the Horn Moccasin Hide	2	3	2		7
1	Four Bullets Comes from War Wood Boat	3	3	1	4	11
1	Long Name	1	2			3
1	Big Lodge Chimney	1	1	2	2	6
1	Torn Belly Red Crane White Bull	3	2		1	6
1	Crazy Bear Skunk Guts	2	1	1	3	7
1	Widow #2 (W)		2	2		4
1	The Chief	1	2	1	1	5
1	Hollow Sunflower	1	2		1	4
1	Blackbird	1	1	1	3	6
1	Fills the Pipe	1	1		3	5
1	Three Hawks	1	2	1		4

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
36	Brought forward from page 164	55	78	41	54	228
1	Scabby Face	1	3		3	7
1	Water Snake Tanned Nuts Long Handle	3	2			5
1	Saddle Clown	2	2	2	1	7
1	Charging Hawk Red Tail	2	4	3		9
1	Warms his Blanket Feather Moon Black Elk	3	6	1		10
1	Looks Yellow	1	2			3
1	Scabby Place *	1	2		2	5
1	Soft Prick	1	3	2		6
1	Makes Widows Cry	1	1			2
1	Hairy	1	2		2	5
1	Black Elk	1	1	3		5
1	Red Hawk Good Boy	2	1		4	7
1	Bad Partisan Plenty Shells Lone Elk Crazy Head	4	4	2	1	11
1	Comes in Day Grandfather	2	2	4	1	9
1	White Bear	1	2	1	1	5
1	Grey Head (W)		1			1
1	Runner	1	1	1	1	4
1	Bad Hand	1	2	1	1	5
1	Walks in Mud	1	1	1		3

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
55	Brought forward from page 165	84	120	62	71	337
1	Red Rock	1	1	1		3
1	One Teet Enemy	2	2			4
1	Spotted Hand Runs on	2	6	2	1	11
1	Wrinkled Face	1	1			2
1	Robe Hair Outside	1	1		2	4
1	Duck Belly Sleeps There Around the Quiver	3	1			4
1	Woman Bone	1	2	4	4	11
1	Looks White Slow White Cow	2	2		2	6
1	Kills the Married	1	2			3
1	Rider Short	2	2			4
1	Dog Ear Melter	2	1	3	2	8
1	The Bugger	1	1	3		5
1	Bear Paw	1	1			2
1	Pumkin Hill	1	2	3	1	7
1	Face Turner	1	4			5
1	Man on Top Lives Out	2	2	1		5
1	Circled Lodge (W)		2			2
1	The Bull Shits on his Hand	2	1			3
1	Cockeyed Woman (W)		2	2	1	5
1	The Hill	1	1			2
1	Neck Prick Belly	2	2	3	1	8

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
76	Brought forward from page 166	113	154	84	85	441
1	Shits on the Eagle	1	1	2	2	5
1	Gone Again	1	1		1	3
1	Knife Chief	1	3	7	8	19
1	The Hand	1	2	2		5
1	One that Searches (W)		3		1	4
1	Little Prick Sits Up Above The Rump	2	3	2	2	10
1	No Neck	1	1	3	1	6
1	Little Back Gopher	2	3	2	1	8
1	Wood Root Bad Warrior	2	1	1		4
1	Tobacco	1	1	4	2	8
1	Horned Horse At the End Sees the Cow	3	3	1		7
1	Dancing Arrow Sitting Bear	2	3	22	9
1	Hole in Face	1	1	2		4
1	Blue Horse #2	1	1		1	3
1	Ree (W)		1	1	1	3
1	Hangs His Head One Grass Ree Soldier	4	3	1	4	12
1	Green Blanket (W)		1		1	2
1	Bull Proof (W)		3	1	1	5
1	Singing Bear Loafer	2	1	1	2	6

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
95	Brought forward from page 167	139	195	116	114	564
1	Belly Full	1	2	3		6
1	Poor Dog Soaring Bear	2	1	2	2	7
1	Fills Up	1	2		1	4
1	Grass Prick Iron White Man	2	4	2	1	9
1	Crazy Horse Tall Bull	2	3	2		7
1	Thick Face Little Boy	2		1	1	4
1	Little Hawk Snatch Stealer	2	3	2	3	10
1	Bad Minneconjou Plenty Dogs	2	3		2	7
1	Laugher (W)		1	1	1	3
1	Little Bull Horse Bear	2	4	2	3	11
1	War Club Owns Arrow	2	2	2	3	9
1	Little Big Man	1	1		1	3
1	Side Rib	1	1	2		4
1	One That Steals	1	2	1	3	7
1	Runs in Sight (W)		3	2		5
1	Lightning Killer	1	2		1	4
1	Crooked Mouth (W)		2			2
1	Strong Fox	1	2	1		4
1	Lays Laughing Short Brule Fat Rump	3	4		1	8
1	Leggings	1	2	3	1	7

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
115	Brought forward from page 168	166	239	142	138	685
1	The Whore	1	1	3		5
1	Pulls Out	1	2	2	3	8
1	Two Face Greases his Arm	2	2	1	2	7
1	Poor Bear	1	1	1	1	4
1	Blind Woman (W)		2		1	3
1	Tripe Fold	1	3	1		5
1	Runs Close to Camp	1	2		2	5
1	Yellow Robe Snatch Loser	2	1	2		5
1	Big Bend Snake Creek	2	2	2	1	7
1	Chief Man	1	2		1	4
1	Ear Ring Prick Butt Horn	2	1		1	4
1	Whistler	1	4		1	6
1	Bloody Knife The Shield	2	6	3	5	16
1	Dried Prick	1	2	3		6
1	Blind Woman #2 (W)		2			2
1	Nose in Sight	1	2	2	2	7
1	Asshole American Horse Old	3	4	1		8
1	White Cloud	1	4	1	2	8
1	Undone Kills at Night	2	1	1	1	5
1	Long Visitor Spunker	2	2	2	5	11
1	Four Crows Bluff	2	2	1		5

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
136	Brought forward from page 169	195	284	165	166	816
1	He Dog The Lights Clown #2 Wound in Back	5	3	3		11
1	Spotted Half**	1	2		2	5
1	The ?**	1	4		1	6
1	lllegible Illegible	2	2	2	2	8
1	Spread Pine** Don't Amount to Anything Looks like a Dog	3	3	4	4	14
1	Brave Wolf Bad Horse Red Shirt	3	3	5	3	14
1	Bad Sucker	1	3	2	1	7
1	Contrary Mountain Big Owl	3	2	2	1	8
1	Singing Prick Stinking Tie Dog Nothing	3	3		4	10

Lodges	Heads of Households	Adult Males	Adult Females	Children Male	Children Female	Total People
145	Grand Totals	217	312	186	184	899

* Omitted from The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger as published by the Nebraska State Historical Society in 1994.

** A portion or all of these names are illegible.

The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, edited by Thomas Bueker and R. Eli Paul, Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE 1994, p 157 - 165

NOTE:

.For more information on Crazy Horse, please see Crazy Horse in Action at the Rosebud and the Little Bighorn, Indian Battlefield Tactics, Bogus Crazy Horse Photos, the Chicago Times' coverage of Crazy Horse's surrender and the Winter Count of Crazy Horse's Life.

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