Chloe Eagle Boy

Chloe Eagle Boy keeps cultural connections
By Richie Richards
Native Sun News Staff Writer

RAPID CITY ––  When Minnicoujou Chief Si Tanka (Big Foot) fled with his people to the Pine Ridge Agency in December 1890, only to be intercepted and massacred near the Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, little did he know that 125 years later, his descendant Chloe Eagle Boy would make that same journey to honor him.

Born to Wayne Eagle Boy and Colette Broken Nose-Eagle Boy at Regional Hospital as a premature birth in 1999, Chloe Eagle Boy (Oglala Lakota) has grown up both in Rapid City and on the Pine Ridge Reservation; having spent much of her summers in Oglala.

Chloe can trace her ancestors back 10 generations to Buffalo Horn War Bonnet. Her Great-Grandmother, Flossy Pipe On Head, has beadwork in the Smithsonian Institute. Her Great-Grandfather, Edward Adelbert Doisy, won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943.  Chloe attended Knollwood Elementary, North Middle School and currently attends Rapid City Central High School. She is an “A/B student” who excels at playing the violin in Central’s Orchestra.

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