Early Life and Family
Sinta Muzza (Sinté Mazá) was the chief’s tribal name. Asked why the white people call him Iron Tail, he said that when he was a babe his mother saw a band of warriors chasing a herd of buffalo, in one of their periodic grand hunts, their tails standing upright as if shafts of steel, and she thereafter called his name Sinta Muzza as something new and novel.
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