"About the hides I will ask you. Those that are killed on the block. That ought to go to the poor people and the old women. The Great Father [US Government] when we went down there said he would agree to take all our hides at $3 apiece, but we don’t get that and I wish you would fix that again. I would rather get $4 for my hides. There are a good many poor people and old women that have no one to look out for them, and they ought to get those hides."
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Hollow Horn Bear
Hollow Horn Bear (Lakota, Matȟó Héȟloǧeča) (March 1850 – March 15, 1913) was a Brulé Lakota leader during the Indian Wars on the Great Plains of the United States.
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