Indian Ghost Dance before Battle of Wounded Knee

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  [Indian Ghost Dance before Battle of Wounded Knee. 1890]

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  photCL 178, photDAG 94

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  Remains of an Indian camp after a battle -- possibly Wounded Knee

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  Photo of Lakota camp after Wounded Knee Massacre with Lakota bodies wrapped in blankets in the foreground.

  photCL 178 (3)

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  Sioux Indians Preparing for War Dance

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  Photo of gathered Sioux Indians in native dress with a few in Caucasian clothing.

  photCL 178 (6)

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  The Medicine Man, taken at the Battle of Wounded Knee S.D

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  Photo of a Lakota medicine man killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

  photCL 178 (1)

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  Snake Dance of the Hopi Indians at Oraibi. Painted Desert, Arizona

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  Hopi Indian men wearing dance regalia, performing Snake Dance. One man is holding a snake. Spectators watch from pueblo walls.

  photCL 312

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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.

  photPF 1150-1213