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Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La, photograph taken by Charles Milton Bell (1875)

Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La (born 1847)[1] was an Oglala Lakota[2] law enforcement officer and judge. Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La was also called George Sword.[3][4][5][6]

Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La was a police captain[7][8] and a judge in a Native American court.[4][9]

Stories told by Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La are the subject of George Sword's Warrior Narratives, a book by Delphine Red Shirt and published by the University of Nebraska Press.[10][11]

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  1. ^ "Fourth World Journal Volume 15 Number 2" (PDF). www.cwis.org.
  2. ^ "Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La". ictnews.org.
  3. ^ "American-Tribes.com". www.american-tribes.com.
  4. ^ a b "Lakota Iapi and Memory | Native American Sites of Memory". December 18, 2014.
  5. ^ Red Shirt, Delphine (November 2016). George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition (PDF). U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803284395. LCCN 2016039400.
  6. ^ "George "Mi-Wakan Yu-Ha-La" Sword (1847-1910) -..." www.findagrave.com.
  7. ^ "Mi-wa-kan yu-ha-la or He Who Has a Sword, also Captain George Sword". www.cartermuseum.org.
  8. ^ Cross, W. R. (William R. ) (October 20, 1891). "Capt. Geo Sword, chief of police with Buffalo Bill's Indians, Pine Ridge Agency, S.D." www.loc.gov.
  9. ^ Lamar, Walter (March 26, 2015). "George Sword: First Native Police Captain".
  10. ^ "George Sword's Warrior Narratives - Nebraska Press".
  11. ^ "Delphine Red Shirt | Nebraska Authors". nebraskaauthors.org.
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