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Post by Diane Merkel on Feb 5, 2006 9:11:46 GMT -6
From a website visitor: Attached are some photos of an Indian Fair that my grandfather attended at Wood, SD on Sept. 29, 1915 (his birthday).
He said "to see and hear something like this is well worth traveling over 1,000 miles for".
He said the close-up is of an Indian Warrior.
I thought by looking at the age of the man that his age "might" put him in the LBH range. Just a thought though.
Would appreciate any information your "boarders" would have.
Thank you very much. Can anyone identify the Indian Warrior?   |
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Post by fred on Feb 5, 2006 16:42:27 GMT -6
Diane--
I'm surprised her (his) grandfather didn't sell these things to the NY Times. They could have run them w/ "Custer's troops" under a banner:
Indians Pilfer Custer Cannon![/b]
He'd'a Won If He Didn't Leave His Artillery Behind!
Nice pictures, though. Not someone I'd like to run into in a Brooklyn alley.
Best wishes,
Fred.
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Post by glenbow on Feb 12, 2006 9:57:18 GMT -6
My first impression of the man in your photo was that he looked something like Low Dog. Does anyone know if he was still alive in 1915? Where is Wood, SD, and what reservation is it located on? Maybe that would hold a clue. It is a wonderful photograph!
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Post by shatonska on Feb 12, 2006 10:11:05 GMT -6
My first impression of the man in your photo was that he looked something like Low Dog. Does anyone know if he was still alive in 1915? Where is Wood, SD, and what reservation is it located on? Maybe that would hold a clue. It is a wonderful photograph! he looks a bit like Low Dog but he doesn't seem a man about 70 years old |
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Post by shan on Feb 12, 2006 11:41:03 GMT -6
Whilst he does have a look of Low Dog, I'm pretty sure he was dead by then. Richard Hardroff gives two differing dates for his death, The first in 1894, the second 1910. I wrote asking him about these differing dates, but he never replied. I also have a note somewhere, can't lay my hand on it for the moment, that Ephriam has him still alive at Standing Rock as late as 1910.
Shan
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Post by Diane Merkel on Feb 12, 2006 13:01:13 GMT -6
Where is Wood, SD, and what reservation is it located on? Wikipedia.org reports that Wood, South Dakota, had all of 66 people living there in 2000! It apparently is near both the Rosebud and the Yankton reservations. |
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Post by kingsleybray on Feb 13, 2006 6:17:02 GMT -6
Wood was a small town on the Rosebud Reservation, although boundary changes mean that it is now off-reservation. Rosebud is the reservation of the Upper Brule tribal division, and Wood was in the Okreek (that's Oak Creek in full) community. Oak Creek community in turn is descended from a Brule band called Isanyati or Santee - probably descendants of Santee/Eastern Dakota families that joined the Brules in the 18th Century. The Black Bulls and Little Crows were prominent tiwahe (extended families) within the Isanyati band.
Regarding Little Bighorn connections, the numbers of Upper Brules in the Northern or 'hostile' village in summer 1876 was very low - maybe 50 or 60 lodges out of the 1000-or so lodges at Greasy Grass on June 25. Moreover the Isanyati band was part of the Brule Loafer village, people who were more or less fixtures at the Spotted Tail Agency in the 1870s. Fairs and celebrations of the sort illustrated attracted visitors from across the reservation and beyond, so it's impossible to say for sure whether the man in the picture was a local resident - but on the face of it I would doubt whether he was a LBH veteran.
Kingsley Bray
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