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Short Bull married Good Hawk about 1875. During the early reservation period, she became known as
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Short Bull lived the remainder of his life on the Pine Ridge
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Tragically, Grant Short Bull and his son
Charlie were killed in an automobile accident north of Oglala, South Dakota, on August 20, 1935. The family was en route to a memorial dinner for Henry Young Skunk. With that single tragedy, much of the family oral history was lost. His daughter Kate Blue
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where they remained for the next three years. Short Bull surrendered with other Oglala at Fort Keogh in 1880-81 and was transferred to the
Standing Rock Agency in the summer of 1881. He and other members of the Soreback band were transferred to the
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Company A Indian scouts that fall, but then left with the other northern bands when they fled the agency. These families cross the border into Canada to join
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Soreback band on the Tongue River in January 1876 when the government's ultimatum was delivered to the northern bands. Short Bull later recalled that they agreed they would go in to the
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Horse Owner was also injured in the accident. She and her husband Arthur Blue Horse Owner subsequently took in
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the frontiersman James Cook. Short Bull was among the elder Oglala who attended the dedication of the Crazy Horse marker at Fort Robinson in 1934.
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