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Label, R. H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

Tasunka Kokipapi was a prominent Oglala Lakota leader who participated in Red Cloud’s War, later serving as a negotiator for the Sioux Nation following the Wounded Knee Massacre and as a member of delegations to Washington, D.C. His name is properly translated as They Fear Even His Horses, signifying a warrior so formidable that even the sight of his horse inspired fear. American sources during and after his lifetime mistranslated his name as Young Man Afraid of His Horses.