Sitting Crow

[ladonna]

I found reference to goggles giving out at Fort Pierre to some of the Native leaders. I will looking though my record on Sitting Crow.

[gary]

I thought that Frank had been using photoshop again when I first saw the Sitting Bull photo. It was new to me. Fascinating.

Gary

[grahamew]

He was wearing them at Fort Randall when Alice Fletcher visited - no picture, alas.
www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/acf_oct_27-29.htm


A poster of the picture above is available from:

www.cafepress.com/oshishop/842899

[ladonna]

In October 1876, Standing Rock Agency census states that Sitting Crow had 46 people under him.

Sitting Crow
High Bear
Hawk Bear
Iron Horse
Black Crow
Lone Eagle
Kill The Enemy
Red Bear
White Face
Rushing Eagle
Scared at man
Black Lightning
Scarlet Eagle left the band to join under Kills Eagle who went to Greasy Grass.

[Dietmar]

If Scarlet Eagle was also called Sitting Crow, can I suggest he was the son (or nephew) of Chief Sitting Crow?

[grahamew]

Wasn't Iron Horse the brother of Rain in the Face, or was that Iron Horn?

[ladonna]

Iron Horn was Rain-in-face's brother

[grahamew]

Thanks. I just checked - you beat me to it!

[ephriam]

Unfortunately, I do not have much more to add to what Kingsley wrote above. Census records for the Standing Rock Agency show Sitting Crow as headman of a small Blackfoot Lakota band, usually ranging in size from about 40 to 60 people. In the Sitting Bull Surrender census, for example, in 1881, he has 16 families, totaling 62 people.

He last appears in the agency records in the 1885 census. By the 1886 census, his band is listed as being led by Iron Horse; in the 1888 census, this band is listed under Bull Head.

I suspect that Sitting Crow (born about 1822 or about 1825) died in late 1885 or early 1886. Strangely, he is not mentioned in the McLaughlin papers for the period; I do not have access to the Standing Rock Agency correspondence files for 1885-86.

ephriam

[Frank]

Thanks for all those details Kingsley, Ladonna and Ephriam.

[jboorn]

I am graduate student doing a project on the use of goggles by the plains Indians in the 1800s. The last post mentioned a reference to goggles being given out at Fort Peirre - do you have that refereence. Does anyone have the documentation for the Sitting Crow photo. Any additional information on the use of goggles on the plains will be greatly appreciated.

[grahamew]

The Sitting Bull photo is by Goff. Another was taken at the same time - but without the goggles.

There is a Goggles family among the Northern Arapaho. Not sure whether this is relevant.