# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/big-eagle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:32:03.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/big-eagle"
name: "Big Eagle"
slug: "big-eagle"
description: "Big Eagle was the chief of a band of Mdewakanton Dakota in Minnesota. He played an important role as a military leader in the Dakota War of 1862. Big Eagle surrendered soon after the Battle of Wood Lake and was sentenced to death and imprisoned, but was pardoned by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Big Eagle's narrative, \"A Sioux Story of the War\" was first published in 1894, and is one of the most widely cited first-person accounts of the 1862 war in Minnesota from a Dakota point of view."
tagline: "Native American leader (1827–1906)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wambditanka_c1864.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1827"
deathDate: "1906"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.687258666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Eagle"
    title: "Big Eagle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%BA_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%84"
    title: "بيغ إيغل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Eagle"
    title: "Big Eagle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa%C5%8Bbd%C3%AD_Th%C3%A1%C5%8Bka"
    title: "Waŋbdí Tháŋka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutte_Earn"
    title: "Grutte Earn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Eagle"
    title: "Big Eagle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4905610"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump