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
