Chief Gall
b 1840 d?

Chief Gall was born in  South Dakota in 1840.  His people were the Lakota Hunkpapa Sioux.  He got the name Pizia or Gall from an incident involving his eating the gall bladder of an animal.  Prior to this, his youth name had been Matohinsda or Bear Shedding His Hair.

Gall was a master strategist and excellent war leader.  He felt that his people had a right to their buffalo plains and that they should hold the government strictly to it's treaties with them.  When the treaty of 1868 was disregarded, he agreed with Sitting Bull in defending the last of their lands.  After the battle of Little Big Horn, he entered Canada with Sitting Bull, hoping to bring their lost cause before the English government. 

When Gall finally reported at Fort Peck, Montana, in 1881, he brought half of the Hunkpapa band with him, and was soon followed by Sitting Bull. Although they had been promised by the United States commission who went to Canada to treat with them that they would not be punished if they returned, no sooner had Gall come down than a part of his people were attacked.  In the spring they were all brought to Fort Randall and held as military prisoners and returned to Standing Rock agency.

When "Buffalo Bill" successfully launched his first show, he tried very hard to get both Sitting Bull and Gall for his leading attractions. Fearing the influence of the two chiefs, the military was in favor of both joining the "Wild West Show."   While Sitting Bull eventually agreed, Gall haughtily said: "I am not an animal to be exhibited before the crowd," and retired to his teepee. He died a few years later.

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