Iron Tail

Iron Tail (Oglala Lakota: Sinté Mazá in Standard Lakota Orthography) (1842-May 29, 1916) was an Oglala Lakota Chief and a star performer with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Iron Tail was one of the most famous Native American celebrities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a popular subject for professional photographers who circulated his image across the continents. Iron Tail is notable in American history for his distinctive profile on the Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel of 1913 to 1938.

Read more about Iron Tail:  Early Life and Family, Iron Tail and Iron Hail, Iron Tail and Buffalo Bill, The Indian On The Nickel, Iron Tail and Major Israel McCreight, Final Days

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