Gall (c. 1840 – 1895) (tribal name Pizi) was a battle leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota and was one of the commanders who took part in the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Born in present day South Dakota around 1840, Gall was recognized as an accomplished warrior during his late teens and became a chief in his twenties. He served under Sitting Bull during the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, and later fled to Canada with him until his surrender. Gall settled down in the Dakotas as a farmer and Judge of the Court of Indian Affairs on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, and became friendly with local settlers in his later years. Eventually he turned against Sitting Bull, who had become involved with the Ghost Dance movement, and whom he called a coward and a fraud.

Gall lived on the Standing Rock Agency until his death December 5, 1895.

Resources

• Grant, Bruce. The Concise Encyclopedia of the American Indian, 3rd ed., Wings Books: New York, 2000.

1840s births 1894 deaths | Native American leaders | George Armstrong Custer | People from North Dakota | People from South Dakota | Lakota tribe

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