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O C E T I S A K O W I N

THESE WERE THE SIOUX
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Yellow Horse--Yanktonai, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, with long braids, two eagle feathers in hair, wrapped in buffalo skin. Edward S. Curtis photographer. Created / Published c.1908. LOC.
Spotted Cow in buckskin with beadwork, 1947. Photographer Tennelly, Reverend John B., S.S. Pine Ridge -- Holy Rosary Mission. Ethnic Group: Oglala Lakota. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Cabinet Card - Field photograph entitled "War Party" Circa 1890. The photo depicts five Hunkpapa Sioux dancers posed in front of a log cabin at Standing Rock Agency. The dancers are wearing breechcloths, leather belts studded with brass tacks, dance bells around their calves, etc. Photograph by D. F. Barry with his imprint on the front. Heritage Auctions Sep 2006.

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Iron Cloud. Creator(s): Unidentified (Author). Culture: Native American, Sioux. Date: 1850 - 1900. Gilcrease Museum.
John Otherday. Carte-de-visite printed description reads as follows: Anpetu-tokeca (Other Day), who rescued sixty-two persons from the Indian Massacre of 1862, in Minnesota. Whitney & Zimmerman, Photographers, St. Paul, Minn. NMAI-AC-098-ref; Date: circa 1864-1865; Dakota War cartes-de-visite, Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Note the word "WILD" and the two American flags visible on the beaded blanket strip. No Neck traveled for many seasons with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. He appeared in "The Indian Wars" filmed by Buffalo Bill on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1913. Photograph by George E. Spencer, Fort Sheridan (Illinois) bearing his studio imprint on the front of the card. Heritage Auctions September 2006.

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Dakota girl standing at doorway of tipi. Curtis, Edward S. Curtis photographer Created / Published c. 1905. LOC.
Last Horse, Sioux. Date Created: 1899. Creator: Frank A. Rinehart. Portrait of Native American man wearing feather bonnet, beaded buckskin shirt, and holding a pipe stem and bowl. Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. Frank Albert Rinehart Indian Photographs Collection. McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
A portrait of Standing Bear taken outside his house at White Horse Creek near Manderson, SD, in 1919, by Bostwick of Omaha, Nebraska. Standing Bear was a respected Lakota artist and leader at Pine Ridge Reservation. He fought in the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn at the age of 17; and later traveled with Buffalo Bill Wild West Show in Europe (1887, 1890-1891). According to family tradition, the rifle Standing Bear holds in the photograph was purportedly from the Little Bighorn Battle. Cowans 2019

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Frank A. Rinehart. Heritage Auctions Oct 2023.
Black Crow, Brule Sioux. From Michael Ward Collection of Western Americana. Heritage Auctions Jun 2021.
Creator: Charles H. Carpenter. Date: 1904. Wife and young daughter. This photograph illustrates many costume features: beaded moccasins and leggings, an elk tooth decorated dress, a dentalium shell decorated dress, belt of silver disks and bone breastplates. Photograph probably taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis. Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

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Creator: John N. Choate of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Date: 1879. Photo lot 81-12, John N. Choate photographs of Carlisle Indian School, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
C.C. Stotz Cabinet Card. Cowan’s June 2019.
Oglala Lakota Chief American Horse and Family, as identified on mount verso, on mount with blindstamp of C.C. Stotz, El Reno, Oklahoma. Cowan’s December 2019.

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Alexander Gardner Cabinet Card of Big Foot and Wife, Oglala Sioux. Big Foot and wife White Hawk Oglala Lakota, 1872. Photo by Alexander M. Gardner; compare the individual portraits by Gardner, same sitting, National Anthropological Archives, Neg. Nos. gn_03223a & b; gn_03206a & b. Pencil inscription, verso: Big foot, Che tankeah. White Hawk, squar, Tachonka ska. Cowan's December 2007.
Portrait (Front) of Si-Ha-Tan-Ka (Big Foot). Culture: Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou) (Doubts? Oglala? DA). Creator: Alexander Gardner. Date: 1872. Washington DC. National Anthropological Archives.
Portrait (Profile) of Si-Ha-Tan-Ka (Big Foot). Culture: Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux) (Doubts? Oglala? DA). Creator: Alexander Gardner. Date: May 1872. Washington DC. National Anthropological Archives.

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Carlisle Student William C. Brill; Chief Little Wagon, Chief Big Road Another Visiting Chief and Male Students In School Uniform. Pennsylvania - Carlisle. (Little Wound). John N. Choate photographs of Carlisle Indian School. Date: 1879. National Anthropological Archives.
Pictorial census of heads of families of Big Road's band of Oglala, with name glyphs. MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography / Series 3: Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs / 3.3: Correspondence, drawings, and photographs filed by Native American tribe or subject / Dakota / Pictorial census of Chief Big Road's band of Oglala Dakota. Date: 1883. National Anthropological Archives.
Photograph of Big Road, an Oglala Sioux delegate to a conference of Sioux chiefs with the Secretary of the Interior, Washington D.C., January 29-February 11, 1891. The Autry Museum of the American West’s Collections.

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Hilda Neihardt, Black Elk, Chase In The Morning, John Neihardt with hoops and spears. neihardt.com.
Black Elk and John Neihardt, 1945. Neihardt's Epic America.

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Born about 1830. He led five war-parties against Ute, Shoshoni, Bannock, and Piegan. A prominent chief for many years, who boasts that he has always been opposed to war with the white people. Valley Fine Art.
Creator: Frank A. Rinehart. Date: 1900. Studio portrait (sitting) of Blue Horse, an elderly Native American (Sioux) man. He holds a calumet and staff and wears a fringed shirt with quill work and a beaded feather headdress. Denver Public Library Special Collections.
Chief Blue Horse. Cowan’s 2007, Western & Historic Americana, 6 Dec 2007.

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"COPYRIGHT 1899 HEYN PHOTO OMAHA NO. 340 'BROKEN ARM' Chief - is an old Sioux warrior having a fight-ing record. Took active and prominent part in the Custer Massacre. Has a large collection of scalps which he prizes most highly." Reverse face has a green one-cent Franklin stamp. A sample of the note reads: "The Indian Chief on other side of card looks about as I feel lately." Outgoing address: "Miss Ella.R.Voightonau, Goehner, Nebr." Date: 1899. NSHS.
Date: 1899. Studio portrait of Broken Arm [Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)], wearing a feather headdress, a bone breastplate, and a beaded hide shirt. Photographed by Herman Heyn and James Matzen at the Greater America Exposition in Omaha in 1899. NMAI.AC.119, Item P27508. Date: 1898; Byron Harvey, III Collection of Exposition and Portrait photographs, National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Creator: Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934. Date: 188? David F. Barry Collection. Denver Public Library Special Collections, B-284.
Creator: Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934. Date: 188? John Grass, Dakota Chief, and James McLaughlin, Indian Agent, full length studio portrait with painted backdrop; John Grass wears feather headdress, breastplate, fringed leather jacket, blanket around waist, and moccasins; McLaughlin in suit jacket, vest and pants. David F. Barry Collection. Denver Public Library Special Collections, B-556.
Creator: Charles Milton Bell. Date: 1888. Date obtained from S.I. Negative 43563, a Dakota delegation photograph, in which Gall and John Grass are wearing the same clothing. "Gov. W. M. Guy and 2 Indians" written on label pasted to negative. Gall's (Hunkpapa Dakota) identified from BAE Negative 3190-a,-b. John Grass (Blackfoot Dakota) identified from BAE 3113-a,-b. Washington D.C. ? National Anthropological Archives.

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Crow Dog - Brule. Photographed in 1907 by Edward S. Curtis, Crow Dog was a Brule sub-chief who is noted to have once murdered Spotted Tail as the result of a feud involving jealousy and politics. Valley Fine Art.
Crow Dog. Sioux Indian, full-length portrait, facing left, holding rifle, in front of horse. Anderson, J. A. (John Alvin), 1869-1948, photographer Created / Published c1900. LOC.

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Crow Eagle. Creator: D. F. Barry. Date: 188? Studio portrait, head and shoulders, of Crow Eagle, Dakota male, wearing war bonnet and blanket, and holding peace pipe. David F. Barry Collection. Denver Public Library Special Collections, B-461.
Crow Eagle, Fool Thunder, Iron Thunder, Slow White Buffalo, Dakota group, seated, Iron Thunder, holding peace pipe. Creator: D. F. Barry. Date: 188? Studio photograph, full length, of four Dakota men, Crow Eagle, Fool Thunder, Iron Thunder and Slow White Buffalo, seated on a bench in front of painted backdrop. Crow Eagle, Iron Thunder, and Slow White Buffalo hold peace pipes. David F. Barry Collection. Denver Public Library Special Collections, B-111.
Creator: D. F. Barry. Date: 188? Full length group portrait of Iron Thunder, seated in front of group, Crow Eagle, Fool Thunder and Slow White Buffalo left to right, all seated and unidentified white man, standing, in front of painted backdrop. Fool Thunder wears feathered headdress and holds peace pipe, Slow White Buffalo wears feathers in hair and fur cap. Crow Eagle and Iron Thunder also hold pipes. David F. Barry Collection. Denver Public Library Special Collections, B-377.

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Crow King, Dakota Chief, standing, holding peace pipe, 3/4 length. Creator: David Francis Barry. Date: 188? Crow King, Dakota Chief, standing 3/4 length studio portrait with painted backdrop; wearing one feather in hair, breastplate, military jacket, blanket wrapped around lower torso, and holding peace pipe. Denver Public Library.
Crow King (Kangi-yatapi/Ka-Ge-Tou-Cha) Hunkpapa Lakota, taken at David F. Barry's studio in Fort Buford, North Dakota. Crow King was photographed along with several other Lakota leaders who surrendered to the Unites States Army with Sitting Bull in 1881. P17002; Date: 1881; Arthur Billings Hunt photograph collection, NMAI.AC.159; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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According to the Lakota Legend they were a people with little knowledge of how to live or worship before the coming of a divine messenger named “White Buffalo Woman”. White Buffalo Woman left with her people along with her teachings a sacred calf pipe. At the time of Edward S. Curtis’ photograph Elk Head had been the keeper and protector of the pipe for 31 years with 6 other keepers prior to him. Aspen Art Gallery - Valley Fine Art.

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Fire Lightning in Partial Native Dress with Breastplate and Holding Pipe. Creator: Charles Milton Bell. Undated. Washington DC. NAA INV.06634600. Photo Lot 80, Charles Milton Bell photographs of Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Photograph of Fire Lightning, an Oglala Sioux delegate to a conference of Sioux chiefs with the Secretary of the Interior, Washington D.C., January 29-February 11, 1891. The Autry Museum of the American West’s Collections.
Photograph of Fire Lightning, Oglala Sioux, member of the Sioux Delegation to Washington, D.C., 1891. Caption on verso: J.N. CHOATE, 17 W. MAIN ST., CARLISLE, PA. The Autry Museum of the American West’s Collections.

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Photograph of Fire Thunder, Sioux, member of the Sioux Delegation to Washington, D.C., 1891. Caption on verso: J.N. CHOATE, 17 W. MAIN ST., CARLISLE, PA. The Autry Museum of the American West’s Collections.

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F L Y I N G H A W K

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This collection contains photographs shot by amateur photographer Bird Carson (1842-1925) depicting daily life on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, circa 1890-1920. Bird worked as a housekeeper for the local school and her husband John Franklin Carson worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a teacher at Cherry Creek Day School on the Reservation. NMAI-425-002-007-002.
This collection contains photographs shot by amateur photographer Bird Carson (1842-1925) depicting daily life on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, circa 1890-1920. Bird worked as a housekeeper for the local school and her husband John Franklin Carson worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a teacher at Cherry Creek Day School on the Reservation. NMAI-425-002-010-003.
This collection contains photographs shot by amateur photographer Bird Carson (1842-1925) depicting daily life on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, circa 1890-1920. Bird worked as a housekeeper for the local school and her husband John Franklin Carson worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a teacher at Cherry Creek Day School on the Reservation. NMAI-425-001-000-048.

From Bird Carson photographs of Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Culture: Minneconjou Lakota; Oohenonpa Lakota; Itazipacola Lakota; Hunkpapa Lakota.

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D.F. Barry Cabinet Card of Chief Gall and Family, with Barry's West Superior, Wisconsin imprint on recto below image. Provenance: Ex Kramer Gallery. Cowan’s Sept 2007.
Apparently belonged to Chief Gall, Hunkpapa (Sioux). Quilled and beaded hide, horsehair, tin. Miles City, Montana. Date: possibly c. 1875. Dimensions: 33 × 51 cm. ROM.
Creator: Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934. Date: 188? Studio portrait, 3/4 length, of Gall, Dakota Chief, wearing leather jacket and crucifix, seated on bench. David F. Barry Collection. Denver Public Library Special Collections, B-91.

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Shooting Pieces, Sioux Indian. Maker: Gertrude Kasebier. Date: 1898. Related Publication: Delaney, Michelle. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Kasebier. National Museum of American History.
Sioux Indians on the Dakota Plains. Maker: Gertrude Kasebier. Date: 1898. National Museum of American History.
The Red Man. Maker: Gertrude Kasebier. New York, New York City. Date: 1902. National Museum of American History.

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Goes to War. Creator: Jesse Hastings Bratley. Culture: Sioux. Date: 1898. National Anthropological Archives.
Date: 1898. Author: Frank Rinehart (1861–1928). Boston Public Library BPLDC no.: 09_06_000057. Rinehart no.: 1151.
Studio portrait of Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux) delegate Chief Zuya Hiyaya (Goes To War or Pretty Bird, ca. 1855-ca. 1930) wearing a beaded hide shirt and a bone breastplate. Photographed by Frank Rinehart or his assistant Adolph Muhr at the U.S. Indian Congress of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, 1898. NMAI.AC.119, Date: 1898; Byron Harvey, III Collection of Exposition and Portrait photographs, P27486, NMAI Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Culture: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux), Brule Sioux, Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux). Joseph Merriville, Interpreter, Touch the Clouds, Pawnee Killer, William Garnett, Mixed Blood Interpreter, Good Voice (front row third from R), Spotted Tail Jr, Spotted Tail, Young Man Afraid of His Horses ?, and Swift Bear, All in Native Dress. MS 4605, James E. Taylor scrapbook of the American West, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Good Voice, best trailer in Sioux tribe. Creator: Cross. Date: 1878? Gilcrease Museum Good Voice (Ho Waste) a Wazhazha Brule leader; member of delegation to Washington in 1877; enlisted in the U.S. Indian Scouts in 1877.

G O O D V O I C E

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Portrait of Man, "Goose", in Partial Native Dress, with Beaver Pelt Hanging from Hair, Ornaments, Pipe, and Pipe Bag (Profile). Creator: David Francis Barry. Collector: James E. Taylor(Artist). Culture: Sioux. Undated. NAA INV.01605308 NAA MS.MS 4605 OPPS NEG.36714. North Dakota ? Bismark ? Yanktonnai Nakota (Yankton Sioux). MS 4605, James E. Taylor scrapbook of the American West, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Date: 1851-1852. Maker: John Fitzgibbon. Missouri, Saint Louis. The photograph is one of a series a of portrait daguerreotypes made of Native American chiefs while they crossed the country to meet with US Government officials in Washington, DC. When passing through St. Louis, Missouri, in 1851-52 these chiefs were photographed by photographers Thomas Easterly and John Fitzgibbons. Each portrait was a unique image. National Museum of American History.
Portrait of Man, "Goose", in Partial Native Dress, with Beaver Pelt Hanging from Hair, Ornaments, Pipe and Pipe Bag. Creator: David Francis Barry. Collector: James E. Taylor(Artist). Culture: Sioux. Undated. NAA INV.01605304 NAA MS.MS 4605 OPPS NEG.3671B3. North Dakota ? -- Bismark ? MS 4605, James E. Taylor scrapbook of the American West, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

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Photograph of He Dog, Oglala Sioux, member of the Sioux Delegation to Washington, D.C., 1891. Caption on verso: J.N. CHOATE, 17 W. MAIN ST., CARLISLE, PA. The Autry Museum of the American West’s Collections.
Portrait of Group of Native and Non-Native Men, and One Native Woman in Inner Court of Patent Office Building (now the National Portrait Gallery). Sioux Delegation 4 Jun 1875. Washington, DC. NAA INV.00523200 NAA MS.4392 OPPS NEG.3307C. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. (He Dog, possibly the man in the middle of the three feather bonnet).
He Dog. Date Created/Published: c.1900. Half lgth., facing right; holding wing of large bird. Sioux chief. Library of Congress. J.A. Anderson No. 918.

H E D O G

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