Yellow Bear, Mato Ǧí (c. 1844â€"1913), was an Oglala Lakota
leader.The first Yellow Bear was a prominent headman among the
Tapisleca Tiyospaye (translated as the Spleen or Melt Band), one of
the major divisions of the southern Oglala Lakota. He accompanied the
first Oglala delegation to Washington, D.C. in 1870. By the following
year, Colonel John E. Smith rated the size of this leader's village at
about 40 lodges, one of the largest family groups within the Tapisleca
Band. Yellow Bear was murdered in 1872 near Fort Laramie during a
fight with the controversial white trader John Richard Jr.As the
Lakota reservations were being established following the Fort Laramie
Treaty of 1868, the majority of the Tapisleca gave up their buffalo
hunting way of life and settled at the Red Cloud Agency. By 1874,
leadership of Yellow Bear's band appears to have passed to his younger
brother, Black Hawk. At about this same time, another Oglala named
Yellow Bear began to emerge among the Tapisleca, perhaps another
"brother" (in the widest Lakota sense).Born about 1844 or 1845, Yellow
Bear was one of several younger Oglala leaders who came into
prominence among the Lakota during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77.
With the traditional avenues of a warrior no longer available, he is
an example of how a new generation of leaders found success as an
intermediary between the U.S. government and the Lakota people. Yellow
Bear enlisted as a scout in General George Crook's Indian Scouts in
the fall of 1876 and he participated in the Powder River Expedition,
fighting alongside the Army against the Northern Cheyenne in the Dull
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