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Gall, approximately 1840-1894

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Personal name headingGall, approximately 1840-1894
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Variant(s)Bear Shedding His Hair, approximately 1840-1894
Gall, ca. 1840-1894
Man Who Goes in the Middle, approximately 1840-1894
Matohinsda, approximately 1840-1894
Pizi, approximately 1840-1894
Birth date1840~
Death date1894
Found inP&P data from LOT 12940 for Goff, O.S. Portraits of Sitting Bull and Chief Gall [graphic] c1881, c1885.
Dockstader, F.J. Great North Am. Indians, c1977: p. 88 (Gall; ca. 1840-1895; Pizí; Man Who Goes in the Middle; Hunkpapa Sioux chief; one of major Indian field commanders at Battle of Little Big Horn; Matohinsda; Bear Shedding His Hair)
Dict. of Indians of N. Amer., c1978: v. 1, p. 266 (Gall (Hunkpapa Sioux; 1840-Dec. 5, 1894); war chief; Indian name Pizi; with Sitting Bull in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876)
Acad. Amer. encyc., 1989 (Gall, b. c.1840, d. Dec. 5, 1894, called Pizi in the Lakota Siouan language, was a famous Sioux warrior who fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876; a leader in the Hunkpapa section of the Sioux encampment)