Henri
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Post by Henri on Sept 11, 2008 7:58:42 GMT -5
I have more to share.
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Post by jinlian on Sept 11, 2008 9:28:40 GMT -5
Henri has sent those beautiful Spotted Horse pictures to share - thank you very much! This, according to the Smithsonian records, should be a 1900 Rinehart picture, taken two years before Spotted Horse's death (SH was born in 1848) A Goff cabinet. This should have been taken in the early-middle 1890s Still, I doubt Spotted Horse is in fact the man photographed with Pretty Eagle, especially the mouth detail (Spotted Horse's plump lips are quite a trademark!). Any other opinions?
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Post by jinlian on Sept 26, 2008 5:48:30 GMT -5
Pretty Eagle as remembered by painter Elbridge Burbank: "The Crows were the traditional friends of the white men, and I was surprised when I invaded their reservation, that none of them would pose for me, no matter what inducements I held out.Hugh Campbell, the Indian trader with whom I was stopping, offered to make an investigation and find out what was the matter. After he had talked. to them he came back to my room laughing. "They say that when you get back to Chicago you put poison on their pictures and that the Indians who posed for them drop dead...We found that the "poisoned picture" story had been started by Chief Pretty Eagle. He was one of the head chiefs and was a fine man. After the meeting, he was the first Crow to pose for me. Once more he was almost my undoing. After I had painted his portrait he promised to bring in his youngest daughter to pose. When she failed to come in, I rode out to their house two miles away to see what was the matter. I found Chief Pretty Eagle lying under a tree, sick. "You no good, you bad medicine," he told me accusingly. "Me pose for picture, now heap sick. No can paint my little girl." Upon inquiring I found that Pretty Eagle had gotten his feet wet and had contracted a bad cold which he blamed on my portrait painting. It was not until some time later when Pretty Eagle went away to an Indian dance that I was able to get his daughter, whose name was "All-Hers," to pose for me at the Crow Agency before he could prevent the picture. All-Hers was the belle of the Crow reservation and Pretty Eagle was proud of her. One day I met Pretty Eagle down at the agency. I asked him what brought him there. Pretty Eagle had some difficulty in expressing himself in English, so in answer to my question he danced a few steps. That meant he was going to attend the great dance about to be held. I watched him go down the road. He soon met another man who evidently asked him the same question, because Pretty Eagle performed the same steps. Then a little girl greeted him, with the same result. As far down the road as I could see him Pretty Eagle, who was well-known and popular, was giving his occasional dance. If these demonstrations tired him in any way he showed no signs of it at the dance that evening. He danced straight through until sunrise. Pretty Eagle was a fine Indian, highly respected by everyone for his courage. Once when the railroad was seeking a right of way to build their line across the reservation, they sent representatives to purchase the right of way. The Crows called a council at which a railroad man presented the necessary papers for signature. One of the Crow chiefs rose, drew a six-shooter, and said he would kill the first Indian that signed the papers. Without hesitation Pretty Eagle stepped up, asked for the papers, and signed them, with his back turned to the discontented chief. The other chiefs followed his example. My studio, when I was working on Pretty Eagle's portrait, was Hugh Campbell's residence. Mrs. Campbell was away. So we worked in the living room. Mrs. Campbell had many beautiful satin and silk sofa pillows. When it came time for him to rest, Pretty Eagle would arrange the pillows in a big pile and lie among them. In a few minutes he would be sleeping as soundly as a child. All I could see, when I went to awaken him, would be his eagle feather. I have often wondered what Mrs. Campbell would have done to us, had she returned to find Pretty Eagle buried in her lovely pillows."
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Post by jinlian on Jan 29, 2009 19:15:03 GMT -5
In the 1885 Crow census Pretty Eagle and his family are thus listed:
Pretty Eagle, age 41, head of the household: Pretty Shield, age 39, wife Holds His Enemyy, age 18. son Brings Good Things. age 15, daughter (died around 1890) Sings, age 6, daughter (died around 1890)
In the 1900 census, Pretty Eagle and his wife are listed as a couple with a son (who might have been likely a grandson)
Yellow Eagle, age 3
There's no mention of other children, including All-Hers, the daughter Elbridge Burbank spoke of in his memories.
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Post by Dietmar on Feb 27, 2009 12:01:41 GMT -5
Pretty Eagle and Shoshone friend
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Post by jinlian on May 15, 2009 3:48:33 GMT -5
Close- up of Pretty Eagle, from a 1887 group photograph (see first page of this thread) taken at Fort Custer.
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Post by jinlian on May 19, 2009 3:21:03 GMT -5
A documentary (shortcut version) about the identification and repatriation of Chief Pretty Eagle's remains to the Crow Nation (after they were stolen and sold to a New York museum in 1922) www.videospider.tv/Videos/Detail/595195038.aspxPretty Eagle by Fred Miller
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Post by jinlian on May 19, 2009 4:17:02 GMT -5
Déaxkaashitchish Alaxapé ("Where Pretty Eagle laid down") - Pretty Eagle Point, location of the Chief's grave and fasting bed. ©www.forevermontana.com
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Post by jinlian on May 19, 2009 7:46:25 GMT -5
Pretty Eagle- close-up from the 1880 delegation group photo:
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Post by jinlian on Oct 31, 2009 10:55:38 GMT -5
According to Crow tribal historian Elias Goes Ahead, Pretty Eagle, a teenage at the time, tried to joined his fellow Apsaalooke against the Lakota-Cheyenne-Arapaho forces at the battle of Arrow Creek (1862) but was tied and confined to the border of the camp by his family members, who feared he would put his own life in danger.
In Memoirs of a White Crow Indian, Thomas "Horse Rider" LeForge describes a fight against the Lakota near Pryor Creek in the early 1870s and mentions Pretty Eagle as "a dog-soldier chief and a great fighter". The "dog soldiers" are probably the Lumpwood society, to which Pretty Eagle belonged and which inherited many characteristics from the earlier Big Dogs military society.
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Post by carlo on Mar 1, 2012 10:27:55 GMT -5
Jinlian, Do we know the name of Pretty Eagle's father? In Blankets and Moccasins, there is another Mountain Crow chief called Pretty Eagle, but he is an adult and already chief at the time of Plenty Coups' youth -- could this be the father of the Pretty Eagle from this thread?
Carlo
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Post by Historian on Apr 13, 2016 13:17:37 GMT -5
Crooked Face and Déaxkaashitchish (aka Pretty Eagle) - Crow - 1883
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