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The Medicine Man, taken at the Battle of Wounded Knee S.D
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Burial of the Dead at the Battlefield at Wounded Knee, S.D
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Photo of mass Lakota burial after the Wounded Knee Massacre.
photCL 178 (2)
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Photographs related to the Sioux and Battle of Wounded Knee
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Consists of 63 copy prints of annotated and edited copies of photographs by photographers including George Trager, Frederick Kuhn, Henry R. Lock, and W. W. Hayword. The majority of this collection indicates that the original images were published by H. G. Johnson of New York and Nebraska. Photographs are of the American Indian Wars, focusing mainly on the Pine Ridge Campaign and Wounded Knee, and include images of Ghost Dances. They were taken primarily in South Dakota at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (also referred to as Pine Ridge Agency), the Great Sioux Reservation, Wounded Knee, and Deadwood. Members of various native peoples are depicted, including the Oglala Lakota, Sicangu (Brulé) Lakota, Dakota Yankton (Dakota Sioux) and Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Notable individuals include chiefs and leaders such as Two Strike (Numpkahapa/Nomkahpa), Jerome Crow Dog (Kȟaŋǧí Šúŋka), High Hawk, Young Man Afraid of His Horses (Tasunka Kokipapi), Kicking Bear, Red Cloud (Maȟpíya Lúta), Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake), Standing Elk, and Spotted Elk (Uŋpȟáŋ Glešká, also referred to by Americans as Big Foot). Members of the American military depicted include: General Eugene A. Carr, John M. Burke, Captain Charles W. Taylor, Frank Grouard, and members of the 7th and 9th calvaries. Please note that many of these photographs were taken in the aftermath of the Massacre at Wounded Knee and contain images of human remains. Other photographs within this collection contain racist, harmful, offensive, or inappropriate language.
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The Medicine Man, taken at the Battle of Wounded Knee S.D
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Chief Young Man Afraid of his Horses and his Tepee taken at Pine Ridge Agency, S.D. Jan. 17, 1891
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photCL 178 (10)
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Florence Barclay Hyatt photograph collection
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This collection mainly shows people involved in and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre from 1890 to 1891, including Buffalo Bill, Captain Frank Dwight Baldwin, General Nelson Appleton Miles, and Chief Kicking Bear. Other images include nature scenes in the mid-Western United States and portraits of Florence Barclay Hyatt's extended family members.
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