On March 8, 1866, Sinte Gleska, or Spotted Tail, head chief of the Brule Sioux and a major leader of the Sicangu Lakota, arrived at Fort Laramie carrying the remains of his daughter, Mni Akuwin, who had died of tuberculosis in the Powder River Country while traveling with him to meet commissioners and negotiate an honorable peace with the U.S. Government amid the mid-19th century struggle between Plains Indian nations and the United States over land and resources. Colonel Henry Maynadier received him with honor, escorted him to the fort, and joined a funeral at sunset in which the chaplain, officers, soldiers, Indians, and Mni Akuwin’s family took part. Following custom, four posts about twelve feet long were set in the ground and a scaffold laid on top, and four Indian women placed her there with a buffalo robe, her clothing, and her possessions, while Maynadier added a pair of gauntlets; a red blanket covered the coffin, and the heads and tails of her two white ponies were fastened to the posts to prepare her, according to the faith, for her journey to the hunting grounds. The meeting and burial became a poignant expression of grief, respect, and hopes for peaceful coexistence between Native and white nations. Sinte Gleska, born in the winter of 1823-1824, was a noted warrior who later sought to secure his people’s rights through peaceful means before his assassination on August 5, 1881. Maynadier, a Virginian who stayed loyal to the Union in the Civil War, sympathized deeply with the injustices suffered by Plains tribes and remained a trusted friend of Spotted Tail. Mni Akuwin, born in 1848, had witnessed major conflicts on the plains, wished to be buried near Chief Smoke at Fort Laramie, and urged her father to work for lasting peace; her remains stayed at the fort until June 20, 1876, were later taken near the Black Hills, and were returned to Fort Laramie on June 25, 2005, where she now rests near her ancestors.