Person:Mary Unknown (2892)

BURIAL: Buried in the cemetary at the old Cheyenne Agency. During the construction of the Oahe Dam on the Missouri River the cemetary was relocated to a site just northeast of La Plant, Dewey, SD.

BIOGRAPHY: According to family information, Mary Little Thunder (wife of Antoine Lebeau, Sr.) was a sister of Mary Walking Eagle Feather. Her Indian name was Sicunguwin, the English translation: Brule Woman or Burnt Thigh Woman. Her brothers were Chief Four Bears (Mahto-Topah) Two Lances (Tohoka-Za-Numpub) and Black Spotted Horse (Shonka-Wakon). There has been no record found indicating who the parents of the five were. The Two Kettle band occupied the Missouri River valley from the mouth of the Bad River to the mouth of the Cheyenne River, and the Bad River valley southwest of the Missouri in present day Stanley County.

BIOGRAPHY: Following the death of Hodgkiss at Fort Union on March 15, 1864, she returned to the home of her family on the Missouri river with her family.

BIOGRAPHY: Some time in the ensuing years she married a full blood Indian man from the Crow Creek tribe named Yellow Man. This caused a problem, her mother told her she could not take her children with her because they were children of a prominent white man and should not be raised in an all indian environment. Her mother took the children to raise and when her health failed, she asked her daughter, Mrs. Antoine Le Beau to take the children and raise them, which she did. The 1886 Crow Creek census of the Indians shows Mary as entry 9649. The 1901 census of Indians on the Cheyenne River Reservation, entry 9645, show Mary as a resident there.

Mary is also known as Mary, sister of Chief Four Bears of the Two Kettle Band of the Lakota Sioux (this is the way she was enrolled in the government records according to Emma Claynmore Kessler. She was also known as Eagle Feather Walks (Wanbli-sun-mani), Walks Forward ( Umaniwe), or Walks on It.

1. ↑ Death Date taken from Funeral Card in possession of Pamela Patterson.
2.   Letter to Department of the Interior, dated 28 Feb 1915 regarding the estate of Yellow Man.
3.   Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II (Treaties) (compiled and edited by Charles, J. Kappler, LL.M., Clerk to the Senate Committee on
   pp. 896-897.
4.   Kingsbury, George W., (i)History of Dakota Territory(/i).
5.   (i)South Dakota, Its History and Its People(/i) (edited by George Martin Smith, B.A., M.A.)
   Vol. 1, pp. 256-257.

   Mary's brothers gained fame as members of the Fool Soldiers, the small group who rescued 2 white women and 6 children from the Santees near the Grand River in 1862. This account also notes that FourBears was born in 1833.