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Post by gregor on Sept 1, 2011 13:50:02 GMT -5
This is the man I'm (or we are) talking about:
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Post by gregor on Sept 1, 2011 13:40:34 GMT -5
Hi from Germany,
this is what I collected with regard to Sitting Crow:
Sitting Crow Blackfeet / Sihasapa (c. 1822 – 1885) Kangi Iyotake
Sitting Crow was born about 1822. He was a member of the Strong Hearts (Chante Tinza) warrior society of the Sihasapa (Chante Tinza). The earliest mention of Sitting Crow is related to the DeSmet peace mission to the non-treaty Hunkpapas in spring 1868. Sitting Crow was a member of Father DeSmet's escort, indicating that he was a member of the pro-treaty element of the Sihasapa (Blackfoot Sioux). Before 1868 the Strong Hearts of the Saone bands had been the main exponents of an anti-Whites movement, who avoided official contacts with the U.S. goverment. Sitting Crow's adoption of a pro-treaty stance indicates a shift in the Sihasapa toward this attitude. Now the majority of this Lakota tribal division moved away from these isolationism politics.
Sitting Crow signed the treaty of 1868 at Ft Rice in July. Agencies were established within the borders of the new Great Sioux Reservation. The Grand River Agency (later relocated and renamed to Standing Rock) was established in fall 1868. Sitting Crow is noted as one of the resident headmen there in spring 1870. In 1872 he was one of the three Sihasapa leaders - along with Used As Their Shield or Grass, father of John Grass - in the Grand River delegation to Washington, which is documented by a photograph of Alexander Gardner. Accompanied by Grand River Agent J.C. O’Connor Bear’s Rib, Running Antelope and Thunderhawk (all Hunkpapas) and Grass, Iron Scare and Sitting Crow (all Blackfeet Lakota) left in August the Agency. They arrived in Washington on August 30 and returned to their homelands in November 1872. He remained a Sihasapa headman at Standing Rock through the 1880s, but then his sight is lost. At Standing Rock he was listed with his following in the 1885 census as Kangi Iyotake’s camp. In the following year this camp was led by Iron Horse and in 1887 the leadership once again changed to Bull Head (see: the Standing Rock Agency census records fort he mentioned years).
It is said that Scarlet Eagle also known as Sitting Crow (?) fought alongside Kill Eagle (also Blackfoot Sioux) during the LBH battle. But it is unlikely that this is the chief Sitting Crow. It is more likely that younger band members including relatives (and namesakes?) joined the non-treaty bands during the spring-summer of 1876 and were present at the Litttle Bighorn.
(for the sources of this information I have to look up my archive, but this will take some time)
Toksha
Gregor
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Post by gregor on Aug 15, 2011 4:21:01 GMT -5
Very few U.S. tourists will find their way to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the reservation of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota. However, most European tourists give as a reason for their U.S. trip, their interest in "the Indians". A visit to a folkloristic Pow-wow is often the only event to „meet Indians“. Indian everyday life, they rarely see. Those who visited the Pine Ridge Reservation this summer, maybe had the chance to meet John Willis. Willis has published a photo book about this reservation. " Views from the Reservation" is a sumptuous book with mainly black and white photographs, which offer insights into the lives of the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. John Willis is a professor of photography at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont and artist (photographer). One would think that he is working to full capacity with these tasks. But Willis has a mission. In 1992, he traveled to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota fort he first time in order to document the lives of the Oglala Lakota. Contrary to many other professional photographers, John Willis, however, was aware of the fact that the penetration into the lives of Lakotas and into impoverished communities (and the shooting of these scenes) was somewhat equivalent to a new exploitation. He could and would therefore act only with the consent of Lakota elders and the photographed people. To this end he had to win the trust of the Lakota Indians and Willis contacted a respected Lakota elder, Eugene Reddest (1919 - 2002). Reddest not only introduced him into Lakota rituals, but also into the community. Parallel to that, Willis sacrificed a part of his lecture-free time and organized in the summer months free photography workshops in the Pine Ridge colleges. Over the years John Willis earned the respect and trust of the Lakota elders who urged him to publish his work. They hoped that the photographs would again focus the public interest on the dire situation of the rez. "Views from the reservation" is the product of many visits to Pine Ridge from 1992 to 2009. This opulent photo book is a beautiful, but also an upsetting book. It opens not only the eyes but also the minds and hearts to the Lakota culture and their oppressive living conditions. Willis photographs have what it takes to become classics: carefully selected subjects who conserve the affection for the people, but also to the brittle beauty of the landscape - carefully captured for posterity. Particularly impressive - in conjunction with the photographs - is the poetry of Lakota High School students. So, more "views" are provided by the reservation - besides the images. In addition to this, the volume contains essays on Lakotas by Emil Her-Many-Horses, curator of the National Museum of the American Indian, and the writer Kent Nerburn. But not enough. Furthermore, the book contains a choice of Ledger Art Drawings of the Oglala Lakota artist Dwayne Wilcox. Wilcox reflects in his ironic, sarcastic paintings aspects of the current, daily lives of the Lakota, in which the acting ethnic groups are sometimes swapped. www.doghatstudio.com/ (see here samples) Last but not least the book gives insights into the Reddest family history. For this purpose, the Reddest family has opened their family archive. The book is delivered with the CD "Heartbeat Of The Rez", which contains traditional songs of the Lakota, selected by Lakota elders, the author and the radio hosts of the Lakota radio station KILI. Reasons to buy the book? On the one hand, the photo book is a rich kaleidoscope of Willis photographs, historic photographs from the family collection, drawings and thought-provoking lyrics, to introduce the interested reader (and viewer) into the subject. And the second reason: royalties for the book go to the chronic underfunded KILI radio station. You can order the volume worldwide over Amazon. Greetings from Germany Gregor
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Post by gregor on Aug 2, 2011 15:58:31 GMT -5
Hi everybody, lately I came across "The Desert Magazine" (June 1945), which contained an article "Uncle Kit, Frontiersman" by Georgia B. Redfield. Redfield writes about a visit to William Kit Carson of Roswell, New Mexico and - that's the clou - a visit to "Old Kate Geronimo"! www.scribd.com/doc/2149582/194506-Desert-Magazine-1945-June But that's not all - she shows a photograph of Kate Geronimo / Cross Eyes and if it is real - of Ih-Tedda!! According to Redfield she was nearly blind (she must have been about 75 years). Of course we can't be sure that she is Ih-Tedda, but we have a chance. There exist 7 photographs at SIRIS with the caption"Hospital-Mescalero reservation" (Neg. / Local Numbers: NAA INV 10000785 --> NAA INV 10000792). The pix are described as follows: " Elderly lady being held up in bed by nurse is Katie Cross Eyes--second wife of Geronimo". Has ANYBODY one of this photographs? What do you think about the above photo? Greetings from Germany Gregor
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Post by gregor on Jul 19, 2011 15:09:50 GMT -5
I am almost certain it is her, this woman is identified as Ih Tedda in Eve Ball's Indeh and the image is also published in a small booklet here in Holland which includes part of the photographic collection now in the Museum of Ethnography. Hi Jeroen, for a long time I believed and hoped that this woman could be Ih-Tedda. And I've relied also on Eve Ball as an authority (she used Photo No. 5, see below). In recent weeks and months I did a lot of research in terms of Geronimo and family. With regard to Ih-Tedda i searched also for photographs and came across the photos of the Smithsonian Institution / SIRIS and examined them by comparing the pix with other photographs. Of this woman, which is described by Ball as Ih Tedda, there are a total of 5 shots in one session at SIRIS , see here: SIRIS calls the recording date sometimes 1886, sometimes 1888. Once she is called a Mescalero, than again a Chiricahua . While I was researching things with regard to Ih-Tedda I found the following picture of Chief Nautzili at SIRIS: On the back of this photo is written (analogously) "This photo was published on 29 May 1886 as a woodcut in Harper's Weekly." The photographer Randall used the same backdrop on both photos , so we may assume that they were taken about the same time. Ih-Tedda was kidnapped by Geronimo about 1885 and in1889 he pushed her (in Mount Vernon) to join the released Mescaleros. Robert Geronimo was born early 1890, so the photo of Ih-Tedda and kids must have been shot in the middle of 1890 (I estimate the boy is about 6 to 8 months old). I have found no pictures of Randall in 1890 or later, using the above backdrop. All photos with this back drop date from around 1885/86. For this reason, I do not think it is Ih-Tedda. Certainly it was an important woman, otherwise Randall would have not taken the time to shoot the above series. Maybe it was a woman of Nautzili or San Juan? What do you think? Greetings Gregor
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Post by gregor on Mar 28, 2011 6:20:09 GMT -5
Thanks naiche2, but I was looking for a better colored version
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Post by gregor on Mar 27, 2011 17:47:37 GMT -5
Hi folks, recently I came across this colored "Los embudos"- picture. Has anybody a better resolution of this photograph? Gregor
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Post by gregor on Mar 26, 2011 12:50:36 GMT -5
A VERY BIG THANKS to naiches2 for this very excellent "Los Embudos " picture!
благодарю!
Gregor
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Post by gregor on Mar 1, 2011 7:59:49 GMT -5
I agree with grahamew. With high probability this is not a photograph of Sitting Bull. I know no picture of SB on which he was photographed with cut hair.
We should also consider that SB was not a solitary name. I know ad hoc four people who carried this name and I remember dim that I have seen – while reviewing Lakota census lists – 1 or 2 other people with the name: We have the famous SB, his father Returns Again, who took the name before giving it to his son, the Oglala Sitting Bull and a southern Arapaho with Ghost Dance fame, who wore the name.
NOTE: In the 1889 census list of Standing Rock we find – for example - two "One Bulls" (No. 602 = 45 years and No.1311 = 34 years = SBs relative) and two "Gray Eagles" (SBs brother-in-law and a girl). In several Lakota census lists we also find different people with the name "Standing Holy". And of course there were different Red Clouds and Spotted Tails (By chance I found a 82 year old Spotted Tail in the 1886 ! Rosebud Census; see archive.org, on page 75 of the 1886 Rosebud Census PDF-Document of the microfilm).
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Post by gregor on Jan 20, 2011 4:12:10 GMT -5
Dietmar, thank you for this very, very important information! I love this picture! It shows a reflective and simultaneously very energetic and resolute man. So as I always imagined Four Horns. Gregor
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Post by gregor on Dec 26, 2010 13:59:15 GMT -5
And here some little gadgets: Crow King One Bull Rain-In-The-Face Hump Could this be the Mnikowozu Hump (here in 1906) in his younger years? I think there is a likeness.
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Post by gregor on Dec 26, 2010 13:11:58 GMT -5
Sorry Dietmar, I did not want to disappoint you, but that are all portraits I know (and mostly from American-Tribes! ;D). I searched the net for two days to find more - niente! But that must not mean that there are no other pictures. The portraits are mostly published in Cronau's "Im Wilden Westen. Eine Künstlerfahrt durch die Prairien...1890 / In the Wild West. An Artists Journey through the prairies..). We find this book on archive.org. But unfortunately the pictures are omitted. I know there are reprints on the market, i will look for a book. After Cronau's death the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma bought some of his oil paintings. The pencil and charcoal drawings and aquarell paintings remained family property. Maybe some are still property of art dealer, Gerold M. Wunderlich his grand Grandchild. Wunderlich has published different books on Cronau. CU in 2011 - Gregor
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Post by gregor on Dec 26, 2010 8:22:10 GMT -5
Here's another picture of Cronau: "Standing Rock Reservation, Sept. 23, 1881 ". Referring to the dates in his pictures - though they are not always very accurate - we can conclude on Cronau’s stays at Standing Rock and Fort Randall. Standing Rock: from the middle of-September to Mid-October 1881. During this time he created the following images / Portraits: September 20: Mato Sapa September 23: Standing Rock Reservation September 24: Hump “September 1881”: Jagoo/He Topa, Rain-In-The-Face, His Pipe, White Magpie September 29: Little Crow October 10: Crow King At Standing Rock Cronau must have missed Sitting Bull only for days (SB started to Fort Randall on Sept. 10 and arrived at the Fort on September 18th). As to this date we have a little problem with the Jagoo/He Topa drawing. As mentioned before the german Ethnologist Dr. Peter Bolz identified Jagoo as He Topa (see: Sitting Bull und seine Welt / SB and his World, 2010, p.139). Unfortunately I don’t know his reasons. We know Cronau didn’t meet SB at Standing Rock, because he was on his way to Ft. Randall. And He Topa/Four Horns was with Sitting Bull. So, the drawing Jagoo/He Topa (drawn in Sept. 1881) can’t be Four Horns or the date is wrong – and it seems that Cronau was not always that accurate. Cronau met Sitting Bull on October 23 or 24 at Fort Randall. We can assume that he arrived a day or two before. On October 25 he made the famous SB portrait with the war bonnet. On the following days he produced the these portraits: October 29: Wakia Luta / Wakinyan Luta October 31: Schio Sapa / Siyo Sapa “Oct. 1881”: One Bull (2x) In early November 81 Cronau left Fort Randall. Due to health problems he returned to Germany in 1883. In 1898 he migrated to the USA, where he died in 1939. According to his works, we can say that his drawings from Standing Rock and Fort Randall – portraits, camp life and objects - are authentic. A lot of his other works – landscapes, burial grounds, groups – are highly imaginative and can be traced often to Bodmer and Catlin.
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Post by gregor on Dec 23, 2010 12:14:54 GMT -5
Hi grahamew, really amazing these portrait sketches. I've never seen them before. You are right, the "newspaper works" are really generic; perhaps this is due to the newspaper illustrators.
By the way the last picture is most likely not from Cronau. The text of the pic says "Sioux Indians in Germany - Drawn from photographs by F.Waibler". F. (Friedrich?) Waibler was a german artist and illustrator for the newspaper "Illustrierte Zeitung" in the 1880s. Maybe this are Lakota brought to Germany by Frank Harvey in 1886. Cronau accompanied this "Indianer Show" for a while as journalist.
A very Happy Holiday season from Germany - Gregor
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Post by gregor on Dec 16, 2010 16:01:34 GMT -5
Oh boy, I must have missed it last year. Really great pictures! Thanx grahamew
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