Yellow Horse, who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pi-rates in this 1921 or 1922 pho-to, was kind to a then-12-year-old Dee Brown. Of the Southern Association who played at Kavanaugh Field in Little Rock. By 1920, he was pitching professionally for the Arkansas Travelers Pitching for the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma in 1917, he won 17 games and lost none.

He attended the schools the Indian Agency prescribed in order to acculturate him into white society. Thomas and Clara had a son named Moses, born on Jan. They were assimilated into Euro-American ways. They spoke mostly English in their daily lives. By the 1890s, most Skidi dressed more like their white neighbors than their Pawnee ancestors. We know little about Thomas and Clara, but like a lot of relocated Pawnee, they eventually established a family farm. Thomas Yellow Horse (sometimes Yellowhorse) and his future wife, Clara, were among the children led by Chief Baptiste Bayhylle to the new reservation on what had been on Cherokee land, between the forks of the Arkansas and Cimarron rivers, south of the Osage Reservation in what today is Pawnee County. Telling the story of 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,' Dee Brown's poetic history of American westward expansion as told from the perspective of American Indians, requires going back before Brown was born in 1908, in a little sawmill town called Alberta, La., that no longer exists.Ī convenient starting place may be 1875 when the Skidi (Wolf) band of the Pawnee were removed from Nebraska to the Oklahoma Territory.

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