Cartes-de-visite photographs created by photographers in the United States and Canada of Indians of North America, ca. 1860-1875. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting men in traditional clothing, with a few examples of women and children. Tribal groups represented include Dakota, Fox, Navajo, Paiute, Paloos, Sauk, Shoshoni, Ute, and Yankton. Identified individuals include Spotted Tail, a Dakota chief; and Wolf Necklace (Harlish Washshomake), a Paloos chief. Another identified image consists of a copy photograph of a painting of Keokuk based on a daguerreotype made by Thomas Easterly in 1847 and Photographers and galleries represented include: A. W. Barker, Ottawa, Kansas; W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car; Charles Williams Carter, Salt Lake City, Utah; John N. Choate, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; William R. Cross, Niobrara, Nebraska; Duffin & Caswell, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Howard, Fort Bridger, Wyoming; Jackson Brothers Photography, Omaha, Nebraska; S. Park, Brantford, Ontario; Charles Roscoe Savage, Salt Lake City, Utah; Smith, Peabody, Kansas; A. W. Witherell, Keokuk, Iowa
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Barker, Anthony, 1930-, Bliss, W. P., Carter, Charles Williams., Choate, John N., Cross, W. R. (William R.), Hamilton, C. L., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., Keokuk, Sauk chief, 1780?-1848., Mautz, Carl., Savage, C. R. 1832-1909. (Charles Roscoe),, Spotted Tail, 1823-1881., Witherell, A. W., Duffin & Caswell., and Jackson Brothers Photography.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Fox Indians, Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Paiute Indians, Paloos Indians, Sauk Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Ute Indians, and Yankton Indians
Print shows the city square at Mankato, Minnesota on the day of the execution of thirty-eight Dakota Indians after the U.S. Army victory against the Dakota at the Battle of Wood Lake during the Dakota War of 1862; thirty-eight Dakota men stand on a common scaffold with nooses around their necks; rows of soldiers separate the Dakota men on the scaffold from the residents of Mankato, who gathered to watch the killings. Text below image describes the scene
Alternative Title:
Execution of the 38 Sioux Indians at Mankato, Min., December 26, 1862
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Names of the executed Dakota men: 1. Ta-he-do-ne-cha, (One who forbids his house.) 2. Plan-doo-ta, (Red Otter.) 3. Wy-a-tah-ta-wa, (His People.) 4. Hin-hau-shoon-ko-yag-ma-ne, (One who walks clothed in an Owl's Tail.) 5. Ma-za-bom-doo, (Iron Blower.) 6. Wak-pa-doo-ta, (Red Leaf.) 7. Wa-he-hua. 8. Sua-ma-ne, (Tinkling Walker.) 9. Rda-in-yan-ka, (Rattling Runner.) 10. Doo-wau-sa, (The Singer.) 11. Ha-pau, (Second child of a son.) 12. Shoon-ka-ska, (White Dog.) 13. Toon-kau-e-cha-tag-ma-ne, (One who walks by his Grandfather.) 14. E-tay-doo-tay, (Red Face.) 15. Am-da-cha, (Broken to Pieces.) 16. Hay-pe-pau, (Third child of a son.) 17. Mah-pe-o-ke-na-jui, (Who stands on the Clouds.) 18. Harry Milord, (of mixed race.) 19. Chas-kay-dau, (First born of a son.) 20. Baptiste Campbell (of mixed race.) 21. Ta-ta-ka-gay, (Wind Maker.) 22. Hay-pin-kpa, (The Tips of the Horn.) 23. Hypolite Auge, (of mixed race.) 24. Ka-pay-shue, (One who does not Flee.) 25. Wa-kau-tau-ka, (Great Spirit.) 26. Toon-kau-ko-yag-e-na-jui, (One who stands clothed with his Grandfather.) 27. Wa-ka-ta-e-na-jui, (One who stands on the earth.) 28. Pa-za-koo-tay-ma-ne, (One who walks prepared to shoot.) 29. Ta-tay-hde-dau, (Wind comes home.) 30. Wa-she-choon, (Frenchman.) 31. A-c-cha-ga, (To grow upon.) 32. Ho-tan-in-koo, (Voice that appears coming.) 33. Khay-tan-hoon-ka, (The Parent Hawk.) 34. Chau-ka-hda, (Near the Wood.) 35 Hda-hin-hday, (To make a rattling voice.) 36. O-ya-tay-a-kee, (The Coming People.) 37. Ma-hoo-way-ma, (He comes for me.) 38. Wa-kin-yan-wa, (Little Thunder.) And one, Ta-tay-me-ma (Round Wind), who was reprieved.
Publisher:
publisher not indentified
Subject (Geographic):
Minnesota and Mankato (Minn.)
Subject (Name):
A state of the image with title "The Execution of 38 Sioux Indians by the U.S. Authorities, at Mankato, Minnesota, Friday, December 26." and with attribution "from a sketch by W.H. Childs. See page 279" was issued in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in Saturday, January 24, 1863, Volume: 15 , Issue: 382, page 285. Another state, a color lithograph with arched top border, by Hayes Litho. Co. of Buffalo N.Y. was entered for copyright in 1883 by John C. Wise for the twentieth anniversary of the event; another state with same copyright statement but with statement in lower right: Milwaukee Litho & Engr. Co.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Dakota War, Minnesota, 1862, and Executions and executioners
Photograph album of images created by Eugene Buechel of Oglala Lakota and Sicangu Lakota people and environs in southern South Dakota, ca. 1928-1931, Informal portraits include individuals, couples, and groups. Specific student groups including a group of young women from Holy Rosary Mission school, the St. Francis Mission marching band, the St. Francis Mission football team, a dance troupe of girls, and a student theatrical group at the St. Francis Mission in costume and wearing blackface makeup. Informal portraits also depict Lakota people wearing modern and traditional costumes, in addition to Anglo American people wearing traditional Lakota costumes. The only identified individual is Peter Scherer, who directed the St. Francis Mission marching band in 1930-1931, Events documented include horseback trips to the White River, a powwow with traditional Lakota costume and dancing, mourners at a cemetery, Lakota women on horseback, and games of football and basketball. Images documenting agricultural events include threshing wheat and castrating calves, and Other images include exterior views of the missions, homes, farms, and oil wells, while interiors views exist of a gymnasium and dining halls at the missions
Description:
A Jesuit priest, Eugene Buechel (1874-1954) served as a superior at the mission schools of Holy Rosary Mission (1908-1916), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and St. Francis Mission (1916-1923), Rosebud Indian Reservation, afterwards working to document Lakota language and culture in the region until his death., Title devised by cataloger., Photographs in album 8.7 x 14.8 cm. and smaller., and Manuscript captions in German on the verso of several photographs, which are available on photocopies provided with the album.
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota., Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.), Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.), and South Dakota
Subject (Name):
Buechel, Eugene., Scherer, Peter, band director., Catholic Church, and Jesuits
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Brulé Indians, Cemeteries, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Rites and ceremonies, Mission schools, Oglala Indians, and Teton Indians
Photographs of Dakota Indian camps and of St. Elizabeth Mission in South Dakota. Loose photographs depict camps and winter houses and families, their pets and livestock. There are several portraits of school children and students, perhaps at Hampton Institute. Some manuscript captions refer to ration distribution at Rock Creek sub-agency. One bears the caption "Tina [Lina?] Deloria St. Elizabeth's Mission." There are also views of the Grand River, the Winooskie River, and the Eagle's Nest Butte, The photograph album contains a series of images of the construction of a miniature tipi for a young child, snapshots of family groups, a tree burial, girls on horseback, and the "First Church of Flying-By.", Photographs attached to 10 leaves of lined paper are heavily annotated, and depict trips to Rosebud agency or the Rock Creek sub-agency for rations or meetings, with views of the camps made along the way, and There are two pamphlets concerning the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, one of which is from the Massachusetts Hampton Association. There is a single issue of "Talks and Thoughts of the Hampton Indian Students," dated December 1903. Two manuscript fragments appear to be notes on Indian history
Description:
Manuscript captions accompany many of the photographs. One card photograph, published by Seymour of Sioux City, Iowa, and one unmounted print of two children in cradleboards, copyright 1898 by Lee Morehouse, are present among the otherwise anonymous photographs. and With three publications concerning the Hampton Institute, ca. 1900, and two undated manuscript fragments.
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota, St. Elizabeth's Mission, Wakpala, and Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Deloria, Tina. and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Dakota Indians, and Indian reservations
Photographs of Dakota Indians, Chippewa Tribes in the Great Lakes area, Winnebago, Omaha, Santee Sioux, and Ponca Indians in Nebraska, Indian agents, and various other scenes documenting Charlotte Walkup's visits to the Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, Pine Ridge, and Rosebud Reservations in South Dakota, the Winnebago Reservation and Agency in Nebraska, and the Pipestone Indian Reservation in Minnesota. Accompanied by a publication by the Institute of the American West entitled Indian Self-Rule, Fifty Years Under the Indian Reorganization Act, reproducing some of Walkup's photographs
Description:
Charlotte Tuttle Westwood Lloyd Walkup was an attorney in the Solicitor's Office of the U.S. Interior Department assisting the Office of Indian Affairs in the administration of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Her assignment on the reservations was to work with the tribal councils in drafting tribal constitutions and subsequent charters for economic development as authorized by the Act, and on establishing voting procedures., Stored in 1 box and 1 portfolio., and Manuscript captions on versos of many photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation (S.D.), Lower Brule Indian Reservation (S.D.), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.), Pipestone Indian Reservation (Minn.), Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.), and Winnebago Reservation (Neb.)
Subject (Name):
Walkup, Charlotte Tuttle Westwood Lloyd. and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Winnebago Agency
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Legal status, laws, etc, Government relations, Dakota Indians, Ojibwa Indians, and Omaha Indians
Album of cabinet photographs and boudoir photographs on original mounts bound together that document the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, as well as identified Dakota Indians and officers of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, 1890-1891. Several images document the trial of Chief Plenty Horses. Photographers include Leroy T. Butterfield, John C. H. Grabill, George E. Trager, and the Northwestern Photographic Company
Description:
Binding title., Captions in negatives., Manuscript captions on some mounts., and Advertisements on the verso of some mounts.
Subject (Geographic):
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Butterfield, L. T., Grabill, J. C. H. (John C. H.), Plenty Horses, d. 1933., Trager, George E., Northwestern Photographic Co., and United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians and Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
Photographs of the Fifth Cavalry resting in the Black Hills, including views of soldiers in camp, their supply trains, captured Sioux Indians, wounded soldiers, the butchering of horses for meat, and General Crook ordaining Spotted Tail chief of the Sioux at Red Cloud Agency
Description:
Printed captions pasted on mounts., 27 photographs from a series of 31 that Morrow originally photographed, lacking: #6 Bear Rock, from S., near Custer City; #7 Fifth Cavalry leaving Custer City; #23 Soldiers cutting up abandoned horse; #26 Soldiers fighting over horse meat., Stanley J. Morrow photographed General Crook's column shortly after the battle of Slim Buttes in the Sioux War of 1876., and Copy prints stored with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Crook, George, 1828-1890., United States. Cavalry. 5th Regiment, United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cloud Agency, and Spotted Tail, 1823-1881
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, and Dakota Indians
Images created by George Trager and distributed by the Northwestern Photographic Company of views of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, including portraits of Dakota Indians and United States Army personnel, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890-1891, Views of Dakota Indian encampments, include the Camp of Chief Fast Thunder and an overview of the United States Army disarming Dakota Indians on January 21, 1891. Other general views include Dakota Indians waiting to receive government rations on the platform of the reservation commissary and an interior of a frame house built for Chief Red Cloud in 1879, Portraits of Native Americans include a posed portrait of Little Chief, a Northern Cheyenne Indian, which depicts him giving his rifle to James H. Cook. Other discrete portraits of Dakota Indians include Young Man Afraid and Big Road in front of tipis, and an undernourished Dakota Indian woman recuperating in a tipi. Group portraits of Dakota Indians on horseback include Big Talk, Crazy Bear, Good Lance, High Hawk, Hollow Wood, Stinking Bear, and Two Strike, Views of United States Army encampments include the Second Infantry, the Sixth Cavalry, and the Seventh Cavalry, Images related to the Wounded Knee Massacre Include views the battlefield that show frozen bodies of Dakota Indians on the snow covered ground with the civilian burial party in January 1891, A group portrait of General Nelson A. Miles and his staff on January 13, 1891, includes Dallas Bache, Frank D. Baldwin, Sydney A. Cloman, Henry C. Corbin, Ezra P. Ewers, Charles F. Humphrey, Francis J. Ives, Jacob Ford Kent, John S. Mallory, Marion P. Maus, and Francis E. Pierce, and A group portrait of ten men in March 1891 includes five Dakota Indians, consisting of Big Talk, Good Lance, Kicking Bear, Short Bull, and Two Strike, as well as Major John Burke, the press manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; Frank Grouard, an Indian Scout in the United States Army; and John A. McDonough, a reporter for the New York World newspaper
Description:
George E. Trager began photographing army officers and Dakota Indians at the Pine Ridge Reservation in March, 1890. He later formed a partnership with Joseph Ford to sell photographs of Pine Ridge, including images following the Wounded Knee Massacre, and founded the Northwestern Photographic Company in January, 1891. In March 1891 they gained a half interest in Wilbur Springs, a source of mineral water, which they advertised as a cure for epilepsy on the verso of their photographs., Verso of two photographs carry advertisements for the Northwestern Photographic Co., Verso of six photographs carry advertisements for the Northwestern Photographic Co. and Trager & Ford's epilepsy cure., and Captions inscribed in negatives.
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota, Pine Ridge, and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Ford, Joseph, fl. 1890-1892., Trager, George E., Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company, Northwestern Photographic Co., and United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Indian reservations, and Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
Watercolor, oil and sepia paintings of Indians and western scenery, including one of William Drummond Stewart and Antoine Clement
Description:
WA MSS 341 container 1: empty album; container 2: paintings. WA MSS 342 container 1: unframed paintings; containers 2-3: framed paintings (numbers 14 and 15 on detailed list). and 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 (Geographic):
Fort Laramie (Wyo.) and Wind River Range (Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Clement, Antoine., Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874., and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871.
Subject (Topic):
Buffaloes, Chinook Indians, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Nez Percé Indians, Pawnee Indians, Shoshonean Indians, Shoshoni Indians, and Siksika Indians
Watercolor, oil and sepia paintings of Indians and western scenery, including one of William Drummond Stewart and Antoine Clement
Description:
WA MSS 341 container 1: empty album; container 2: paintings. WA MSS 342 container 1: unframed paintings; containers 2-3: framed paintings (numbers 14 and 15 on detailed list). and 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 (Geographic):
Fort Laramie (Wyo.) and Wind River Range (Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Clement, Antoine., Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874., and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871.
Subject (Topic):
Buffaloes, Chinook Indians, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Nez Percé Indians, Pawnee Indians, Shoshonean Indians, Shoshoni Indians, and Siksika Indians
