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Mato Wayuhi piletid
Teave
Matȟó Wayúhi was a Brulé Lakota chief known for signing the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851. In 1854, he was killed when military troops from Fort Laramie entered his encampment to arrest a Sioux individual involved in shooting a cow owned by a Mormon emigrant. The resulting engagement led to the death of all 30 troopers in the army detachment, an event referred to as the Grattan massacre or the Mormon Cow War by Army Historian S.L.A. Marshall in his book Crimsoned Prairie. Following his death, leadership passed to Little Thunder.
