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Post by jinlian on Jul 31, 2009 15:53:42 GMT -6
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Post by wolfgang911 on Aug 1, 2009 6:43:55 GMT -6
Years later, painter Elbridge Bourbank said that at the beginning he had a very hard time in persuading Chief Red Cloud to pose for him and then he " discovered that at Red Cloud's home, his wife was the boss. Any time the Indian agent or officials wanted something of Red Cloud, they went to his wife." and remarked "Had I known this, I might have secured his portrait much sooner." It was also true that Pretty Owl had quite an influence on her husband in political matters: Jeffrey Ostler reports that in 1888 Pine Ridge Gallagher, believing that Red Cloud was reluctant to sign the Sioux bill because his wife opposed it, had W.J. Godfrey paid more a visit to the couple in the attempt of persuading them to accept that resolution, but failed. When Red Cloud, in the Ghost Dance's final days (January 1891) was abducted by Two Strike's band, rumors said that it was Pretty Owl who decided to join the hostiles "declaring that she would take the warpath alone, even if her husband wouldn't join her", but this seems to be a groundless story. thanks jinlian, and here another DC myth goes down the drain  even their greatest chiefs did not hold their women as slaves.. |
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Post by Dark Cloud on Aug 1, 2009 11:08:33 GMT -6
I want to say again, those photos are just beautiful and haunting. Thank you for sharing, at what must be some time and energy.
Regarding the names, as I understand it names could be handed down ad infinatum so that the event which inspired the initial name might have small meaning to the last individual to claim it. Crazy Horse received the name from his father, who ceased being called that and exchanged it for Worm, as I recall. The point being, CH himself had no known event in his life that generated the name Crazy Horse. Is this true?
Also, the name 'Crazy', I read in Connell, has a lascivious connotation lost to English. This, in connection to Crazy Woman Creek's namesake.
Seneca, either from the Roman or the Iroquois tribe way East, still interests.
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Post by newn on Aug 1, 2009 17:11:55 GMT -6
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