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Sioux

Description

Studio portraits of Sioux leaders and scenes on the Sioux Agency in North Dakota: a schoolhouse, U. S. Agent's house; trade store; Devil's Lake; an Indian farm; Fort Totten and soldiers; native camps and views of dances.

People identified: Red Cloud; Running Antelope; Sitting Bull; family of Sitting Bull in front of his tepee; American Horse; Spotted Tail. Photographers/publishers: Portrait of Red Cloud by Mathew Brady, 1872. Also D. F. Barry; unidentified.

Type

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Production date

approximately 1869-approximately 1915.

Call number

photCL 275

Creator

Ingalls, George W (1838-1921)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Purchased from Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ingalls, 1923.

Restrictions

Advance arrangements for viewing negatives must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs. The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.

Pawnee

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Photographs by John K. Hillers. Portraits of Big Spotted Horse and Lone Chief, near Okmulgee, Oklahoma, 1875.

photCL 275

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Photographs related to the Sioux and Battle of Wounded Knee

Visual Materials

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

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Sac and Fox

Visual Materials

Portraits; camp of Grey Eyes; bark houses; women with babies in cradleboards. Views of U. S. Agent's house and family, with croquet game in progress; school house and Indian schoolchildren. People identified: Big Walker; Growing Horn and family; Keokuk Jr.; interpreters Robert Thrift and Mrs. McCoy; camp of Grey Eyes. Photographers: Charles M. Bell; John K. Hillers; unidentified.

photCL 275

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Ely Samuel Parker letters to Robert Campbell

Manuscripts

Two letters from Ely Parker to frontiersman and fur trader Robert Campbell (1804-1879), written during Parker's time as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The first letter regards instructions for establishing agencies for Red Cloud and Spotted Tail's Sioux bands. Parker writes that Red Cloud has requested an agency at Fort Laramie or Fort Fetterman, but Parker instead recommends that the agency be kept on existing Indian land at Raw Hide Buttes rather than being moved to government land. He gives similar instructions for Spotted Tail, also stipulating that the locations selected by suitable for agriculture and have supplies of water and timber. The second letter accompanied payment for Campbell's purchase of "articles" for Navajo Indians. Both letters are on Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs letterhead.

mssHM 74522-74523

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Crow

Visual Materials

Studio portraits and candid photographs of families, dances and school children, mostly in Montana. Views of Indians and whites at Baptist Mission. Two photographs of Crow delegates in Washington D.C. by Charles M. Bell. People identified: Plenty Coups; Bull Tail, White Mouth and families; Shows-a-Fish and Theodore White Mouth; White Arm and family; Rebecca Flathead; Pretty Shell and Pretty Beads (mother and child); Good Eye. Photographers: Charles M. Bell; Huffman, Montana; unidentified.

photCL 275

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Walter Scribner Schuyler letters

Manuscripts

These six letters document aspects of Lieutenant Schuyler's service on the Northern Great Plains in 1870-1871 (Wyoming and Nebraska), followed by his involvement in the 1877 campaign that brought the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 to a conclusion. Schuyler mentions: George Crook, Thomas Duncan, John Gregory Bourke, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Spotted Tail. The letters were written to Schuyler's father, mother and Albert C. Snyder. There is also a receipt and five newspaper clippings.

mssHM 83593-83599

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