Post by Diane Merkel on Sept 15, 2006 10:44:38 GMT -6
American Heritage online offers a daily photo that can be saved to your desktop as wallpaper. They occasionally offer one that is related to our studies here. Today's photo is of Joseph Bird Head, circa 1898. His very expressive face will be looking at me in the days to come. Below is the description of the photo, and here's the link: www.americanheritage.com/picture/?page=viewPicture&pictureID=321
A very young Sioux warrior, circa 1898.This posed portrait of Joseph Bird Head, holding a handcrafted club, was probably part of a series of 400 pictures taken of Sioux men, women, and children who had been shipped to the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska, as living artifacts. The Sioux had once dominated the Northern Plains from the upper Missouri River down to the Platte River. They had fought the white man longer than any other Plains tribe, until the struggle ended before a battery of Hotchkiss guns at Wounded Knee. The 19,000 survivors from the Sioux Nation were now on South Dakota reservations.