In this black and white photograph, Crow Dog (Sunka Kangi) sits on a horse in a grassy field. He is holding a rifle, and there are two feathers in his hair. There is a blanket across the horse's back. Several trees can be seen in the distance. The photograph was taken at the Rosebud Reservation.
In 1881, Crow Dog shot and killed Spotted Tail. He was convicted of murder, but the conviction was overturned in a U.S. Supreme Court case that determined that the federal government did not have jurisdictions over crimes involving Indians committed on Indian land. Crow Dog was also a leader in the Ghost Dance Uprising of 1890. The Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation is located nine miles north of Valentine, Nebraska, in South Dakota.
