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Iron Hail
Wasu Maza (“Iron Hail”), who died in 1955 at the age
of ninety six, was the last known Lakota Sioux survivor (and probably the last
veteran from either side) of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Iron Hail was seventeen or eighteen on June 25,
1876, the day of battle. After the
battle he followed Sitting Bull across the border into Canada, later returning
to South Dakota.
Iron Hail was present at the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890). He was shot three times, twice in the
back. His mother, father, wife and
infant child were all killed.
Iron Hail changed his
name to Dewey Beard when he converted to Christianity.
Custer’s Last Stand: Portraits in Time
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