Rose Hill Cemetery

Chief Red Fox (Lakota: Tokalu Luta, also known as Chief William Red Fox; 1870 – 1976)
was a Oglala Lakota Sioux performer, actor, and Sioux Indian rights advocate, born on the Pine
Ridge Reservation in the Dakota Territory. He was a nephew of famed Sioux war leader, Crazy Horse.

In 1893, Colonel William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, visited Pine Ridge
Reservation to recruit Native Americans as performers in his "Wild West Show," and asked Chief Red
Fox to join the troupe of performers who were about to make an appearance at the 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition (better known as the Chicago World's Fair). Buffalo Bill also asked Chief Red
Fox to serve as a translator and "have charge" of the Native Americans that were in the show. Red
Fox agreed to join the traveling show and worked for Buffalo Bill for many years. In 1905, Chief
Red Fox "scalped" King Edward VII in a stagecoach robbery scene in a Wild West show performance in
London.

Chief Red Fox appeared in many early silent westerns shown in Nickelodeon movie theaters, most
notably The Round Up.

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