![]() ![]() Yellow Robe's elementary education took place in a one-room school close to her home. Her father's mother, Tahcawin (Fawn), was a niece of Sitting Bull-considered to be one of the Sioux's most celebrated leaders. ![]() Their loving, inter-racial marriage was both a foundation and an inspiration for Yellow Robe's highly-developed tolerance and temperance. Her father was educator Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe, and her mother, Lillian Belle Springer-of Swiss-German ancestry-was a volunteer nurse at the Rapid City Indian School. The first of three daughters, Yellow Robe's father named her in honor of the Lakota (Teton Sioux) Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota where her extended family was enrolled as members of the Sioux Nation. Yellow Robe was born on February 26, 1907, in Rapid City, South Dakota. ![]() She spent her life fighting prejudice and ignorance with patience, talent and pride-leaving a lasting impression on everyone she met. Lakota Sioux educator Rosebud Yellow Robe (1907–1992) used storytelling and performance to provide numerous generations of children with an enthusiastic inside look at the folklore and culture of Native Americans. ![]()
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