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At my second enlistment, we did not go together. He was already there at Ft. Lincolnwhen I reached there that time to enlist.I know that he was a U. S. Scout. He was called Sioux in the service. I called him Sennen-net.That was what we called him in the language of the Arikara.I am not related to him and have no financial interest in his pension claim.I have heard the foregoing deposition read and interpreted to me by Albert Simpsonand it is correct.HisAttest: Maggie W. RossAlbert H. SimpsonStrike-the-BearorRed-Star,Deponent.Thumb-MarkThe foregoing deposition is a true interpretation from the language of this witness byme under oath.Albert SimpsonSworn to and subscribed before me this 16 day of June, 1925, and I certify that the contentswere fully made known to deponent before signing.E. W. Young,Inspector.DEPOSITION BY RED STAR (STRIKES BEAR) IN SUPPORT OF RED BEAR’S DISABILITY CLAIM,AUGUST 23, 1911.Case of Red Bear, No., 1,328,131On this 23 day of August, 1911, at Armstrong, County of McLean State of N. Dak., beforeme, M. J. McGirr, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Strike Bear,now known as Red Star, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer all interrogatories46
propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes andsays:My age is 54, occupation none, P. O. Elbowoods, McLean Co., N. Dak.I served as Indian scout under General Custer. I was serving at the time he was killed. Idid not enlist at Fort Stevenson but was around there when Red Bear, this claimant, got his eyeinjured. I visited him two or three times a day while he was in bed with his eye bandaged. Iwas not right present when the eye was injured but his brother came and told me about it and Iwent to see red Bear the same day. From the time his eye was injured to the “muddy time” inthe spring he kept his eye covered. The eye was injured late in the fall – there was snow on theground. It was about the time that the green grass was coming up that I first saw him withouthaving his eye covered up; he then had green goggles on. When [sentence missing] over [his]eye and he then told me that he could not see with that eye at all. He was still in the service atthat time. I never knew him to be able to see with that eye since. He was very bashful aboutthat eye ever after. I have often tried to look at it but he would not let me. He used to go in around-about way to wash his face and only then would remove his goggles. Yes sir, he woregoggles at the time he served under General Custer. This the right eye that was injured.The first I heard him complain of his left eye was while we were out with GeneralCuster. We hardly knew what a good night’s rest was then – we used to have to be outscouting night and day and I noticed him complain of his good eye then. We used to havemedicine along for it. At first after we came back his left eye was a little better than while wewere in the service, but after a couple of years everybody began to notice how he wouldstumble over things and from that time on the eye has been growing worse until now he isalmost blind in that eye too.I must have been about 13 or 14 years of age when I first knew red bear and haveknown him ever since. I never knew or heard of his getting any injury of either eye other thanthe one he got while a scout. His brother told me that he (Red Bear) was hauling hay and that apiece of hay got in his eye.This claimant is my cousin; I have no interest in the pension claim.47
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Page 4 and 5: to almost zero. The scouts also car
Page 6 and 7: hostile Indians, the scouts carried
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Page 10 and 11: service while with the column.” 1
Page 12 and 13: end of their [lives].” Murphy als
Page 14 and 15: In 1919, the scouts organized a hom
Page 16 and 17: a new Pension act on March 3, 1927.
Page 18 and 19: the Custer battlefield where Gen. C
Page 20 and 21: I don’t know how he got his eye i
Page 22 and 23: Byron H. WildeAnother witness not a
Page 24 and 25: Pension Office, Little Sioux estima
Page 26 and 27: I enlisted a third time. After the
Page 28 and 29: Custer on a scouting expedition, an
Page 30 and 31: I have had only the name I use now,
Page 32 and 33: expected to tell the truth and that
Page 34 and 35: DEPOSITION BY LITTLE SIOUX IN SUPPO
Page 36 and 37: Yes I have known Handsome Elk ever
Page 38 and 39: seen as a blackened patch. Can not
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Page 42 and 43: party was expected to find a lone s
Page 44 and 45: Thumb-MarkI hereby certify that the
Page 48 and 49: I have heard this deposition read,
Page 50 and 51: DEPOSITION OF STRIKES THE BEAR OR R
Page 52 and 53: this section. - EWY, Spl. Exr). Tha
Page 54 and 55: At Ft. Lincoln I was given blankets
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Page 58 and 59: DEPOSITION BY RUNNING WOLF IN SUPPO

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