Frank Benjamin Grouard (also known as Frank Gruard and Benjamin
Franklin Grouard) (20 September 1850 â€" 15 August 1905) was a Scout
and interpreter for General George Crook during the American Indian
War of 1876. For the better part of a decade he lived with the Sioux
tribe before returning to the society of people of the U.S.A. He was
present at the immediate aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
and several other historical fights of the 1800s including the Wounded
Knee Massacre.Grouard was born in the Society Islands in the south
Pacific Ocean, the second of three sons born to Benjamin Franklin
Grouard, an American missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, and a Polynesian woman.He moved to Utah with his
parents and two brothers in 1852, later moving to San Bernardino in
California. After a year in California, Grouard's wife returned to the
South Pacific with two of the children, leaving Benjamin with the
middle son, Frank. In 1855 he was adopted into the family of Addison
and Louisa Barnes Pratt, fellow missionaries for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints with his father. Grouard moved with the
Pratt family to Beaver, Utah, from where he ran away at age 15, moving
to Helena, Montana and becoming an express rider and stage driver.In
about 1869, while working as a mail carrier, Grouard was captured near
the mouth of the Milk River in Montana by Crow Indians who took all
his possessions and abandoned him in a forest where he was found by
Sioux Indians and later adopted as a brother by Chief Sitting Bull. He
was probably accepted by them as an Indian because his Polynesian
features resembled those of the Sioux. Grouard married a Sioux woman
and learned to speak the Sioux language fluently, taking the Indian
names 'Sitting-with-Upraised-Hands' and 'Standing Bear', (Yugata), as
he had been captured wearing a bearskin coat. For seven to eight years
he lived in the camps of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse until he managed
to escape, becoming an emissary of the Indian Peace Commission at Red
Cloud Agency in Nebraska. In 1876, Grouard became a Chief Indian Scout
in the United States Army under General George Crook, fighting Sioux
Indians. By February 1876, many Indians were leaving the reservations
in search of food, refusing to return when ordered to by the United
States government. General Crook began his winter march from Fort
Fetterman on March 1, 1876 with many companies of troops and with
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