His only child a daughter, had recently died of the same disease. This was merely a trick in order to capture him and send him to exile in Florida September 6, 1877 while under U.S. Army protection he was stabbed in the back by an American soldier while pinned from behind by a tribal policeman, Little Big Man.
Over a hundred years ago, one day in the early 1900s, Claude Hopkins a well-known advertising executive was approached by an old friend, who wanted a business idea for a toothpaste he created, Pepsodent. He believed that the marketing opportunity was huge and requested Hopkins to help him design a national promotional campaign.
Mr. and Mrs. Alderson Muncy of Paynesville, West Virginia, were the first food stamp recipients on May 29, 1961. They purchased $95 in food stamps for their 15-person household. In the first food stamp transaction, they bought a can of pork and beans at Henderson's Supermarket. By January 1964, the pilot programs had expanded from eight areas to 43 (40 counties, Detroit, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh) in 22 States with 380,000 participants.