Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La

Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La (ca. 1847 – 1910)^[2] was an Oglala Lakota law enforcement officer and judge.^[3] He was also a ledger artist whose work is in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian.^[1]

George Sword
Miwakan Yuhala
Mi-Wa-Kan Yu-Ha-La, photograph taken by Charles Milton Bell (1875)
Born	ca. 1847
Died	1910 South Dakota
Resting place	Saint Matthews Episcopal Cemetery, Slim Butte, South Dakota
Nationality	Oglala Sioux Tribe
Other names	George Sword, Man Who Carries the Sword[1]
Occupation(s)	police captain, judge
Style	Ledger art[1]

Name

Miwakan Yuhala is a Lakota name, translating to "Man Who Carries the Sword."^[1] He is also known as George Sword.^[1][4][5][6]

Career

Miwakan Yuhala served as caption of the police at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota.^[7][8] and a judge in a Native American court.^[5][9]

Legacy

Delphine Red Shirt (Oglala Lakota) published stories told by Miwakan Yuhala in George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition (University of Nebraska Press, 2016).^[10]