Grant Short Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Ptéčela ) (ca. 1851-1935). Member of Soreback Band, Oglala Lakota, and participant in Battle of the Little Bighorn. Became a headman during the early twentieth century on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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