By David Humphreys Miller. Colored pencil and crayon on tinted art paper, drawn from life c. 1941, not signed by Miller. 11"x8.5". High Bald Eagle, a Sichangu (Burnt Thigh) or Brule Sioux warrior nearly 30 years old in 1876, was a follower of Crow Dog at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. A nephew of Chief Iron Shell Necklace and a cousin of Chief Spotted Tail, High Bald Eagle had an envious war record which included a great battle between the Sioux and the Pawnees in August of 1873. He was a ghost dancer in 1890. David Miller met High Bald Eagle and sketched him in the summer of 1941, near St. Francis on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation.

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