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He died in a foreign land—but one stranger refused to let him be forgotten. In 1892, Sioux Chief Long Wolf, a member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, passed away in London from pneumonia. Far from the Great Plains of his ancestors, he was buried quietly in Brompton Cemetery—under a stone marked with a howling wolf and a name few in England remembered. And there he stayed for over 100 years… until a British homemaker named Elizabeth Knight found his story in a dusty market book in 1991. She wasn’t a historian. Not a journalist. Just someone with a good heart and a deep sense of right and wrong. Moved by the idea of a Native American warrior lying forgotten beneath London’s gray skies, she turned researcher, advocate, and, finally, hero. Elizabeth wrote letters, stirred local officials, and connected with Lakota descendants. And in 1997, after more than a century, Long Wolf finally came home—laid to rest with honor on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Some legacies are carried by warriors. Others by quiet souls with determined hearts. #LongWolf #ElizabethKnight ~Old Photo Club