1. Running Antelope is the only Native American depicted on US paper money, but the picture caused ill will as the Series 1899 $5 Silver Certificate pictured Running Antelope as a chief wearing a Pawnee head dress as the original Sioux head dress was too tall for the engraving.
When Running Antelope was born near the Grand River, presently South Dakota, in 1821, few white men were in the area.
Running Antelope learned to ride and hunt, and later went on horse-stealing expeditions and war parties and joined the secret societies.
Running Antelope was one of the first Hunkpapas to reject the warpath and become a friend of the whites.
Running Antelope signed the Treaty of 1868 at Fort Rice.
Running Antelope attended the Fort Laramie, Fort Rice and Fort Peck treaty councils.
Running Antelope was enrolled in 1868 at Grand River Agency, later part of Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota.
Running Antelope established a settlement of about sixty families in the Grand River valley and opened a store.
Late in 1880, the followers of Sitting Bull began to return from exile in Canada and in the spring of 1881, Running Antelope was enlisted as a scout in the army to go to Fort Buford to escort Gall and his followers to Standing Rock.
Running Antelope was chosen to lead the last great Sioux buffalo hunt in June 1882.
Running Antelope died between June 30,1896, and June 30,1897.
Running Antelope is buried at the Long Hill Cemetery east of Little Eagle, South Dakota.
Running Antelope was pictured on the 1899 United States five-dollar Silver Certificate.