Chief Stranger Horse a Sicangu Lakota Warrior, also served in the U.S. Army under General Crook from 1876-1877. He settled on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in the Butte Creek District of Wood, South Dakota. During the early reservation period Chief Stranger Horse traveled to Washington D.C.. Where he was a guest of President Harding, and received two Washington Peace Medals.
Chief Stranger Horse's first born son: Norris Stranger Horse (my great-grandfather). At the age of seven years, in traditional naming ceremony, was given the Lakota name Waha chun kala (Shield). He legally changed his last name from Stranger Horse to Shields. Norris Shields only surviving son Raymond Shields (my grandfather), graduated from Haskell Indian College.
Raymond Shields first born daughter: Lucinda Shields-Ellert's Lakota name is Wakia Winyan (Thunder Woman). My grandmother told me, "There was quite a thunder storm the night your mom was born, that is what inspired her name." My mother was born in Wood, South Dakota, in the same house where Chief Stranger Horse passed away in 1922.
My name is Martha Fast Horse: The first born daughter of Harvey Fast Horse Jr. & Lucinda Shields-Ellert. In a traditional naming ceremony some 5 years ago, I was given the Lakota name Maka Wakan Winyan (Sacred Ground Woman).
I am a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. I am my paternal grandmother's namesake. By my birthright a lineal descendant of tribal royalty, and just like my great-great grandfather before me a true and faithful " Sicangu Lakota Warrior."
