Not Lineal Descendants of Spotted Elk

This page documents public claims of lineal descent and compares them to contemporaneous records (probate, heirship, enrollment, census/rolls, agency correspondence).
 

A) What counts as evidence (short)

Probate-era heirship records

Individual history cards / agency documentation

Enrollment correspondence

Census/roll context

Why self-reported trees and compensation narratives require cross-checking
 

B) The contradictions timeline 
Contradictions in Congressional Record by Pipe on Head family
Sworn testimony of Pipe on Head

Sworn testimony (Lucinda)

Contested correspondence (Medicine Woman / claimant conflicts)

Later secondary narrative (McGregor/McLaughlin-era retrospective claims)

“Grandsons” framing and compensation context
 

Result: public narrative diverged from probate-era record
 

C) Claim-by-claim tables 

Yellow Horse / Little Finger / Her Horse

Pipe on Head / Broken Nose

He Crow lines and step-relationship

Blue Legs (and why descendant-of-band ≠ lineal)
 

 D) Verified lineal Spotted Elk documentation 
In the treaty
in winter counts
in probate reords
in permits (primary sources)