Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Description:
Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874, Shoshoni Indians--Pictorial works, and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Subject (Topic):
Dogs in art, Indian women--North America--Pictorial works, and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Photographs of the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Photographs created by Owen Luck of individuals and events surrounding the armed occupation by Oglala Dakota Indians, American Indian Movement, and their allies of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota, 1973. Images document ceremonies and gatherings, men holding rifles and manning roadblocks, the arrival of negotiators from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America and the federal government, and government military forces. Other images shows a group in the doorway of the courthouse during the arraignment of prisoners and Tom Bad Cobb in the street outside the jail, both in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Description:
Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2001. and Signed by the photographer on verso, often with accompanying manuscript captions.
Subject (Geographic):
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works and Wounded Knee (S.D.)--History--Indian occupation, 1973
Subject (Name):
American Indian Movement
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works and Oglala Indians--Government relations
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952 Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Published / Created:
1924
Call Number:
Zc12 +907cu
Image Count:
2
Description:
"This edition is limited to five hundred sets.", BEIN Zc12 +907cu: This set numbered 50 (volume 5 is unnumbered). Reviewed in the Mentor, March 1921, p. 34. Copy in Zc12 921gr. Supplement classed as ZZc12 907cua., Contains vocabularies., Vols. 6-20 printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass., Vols. 9-20 have title: The North American Indian; being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada and Alaska ..., and XIV. The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts.
Publisher:
The Plimpton Press],
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Indians of North America--Languages, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Pomo Indians.
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 1796-1871