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Slow Bull
May 10, 2022 3:22:31 GMT -5
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Post by kingsleybray on May 10, 2022 3:22:31 GMT -5
Hreinn, I'm glad to report you were correct, Slow Bull (born c. 1823) was originally from the Waglezaowin tiyospaye of Miniconjou. He joined the Oglala tribe in spring 1872.working on the details right now.
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Post by kingsleybray on Mar 29, 2022 5:55:27 GMT -5
Thanks rawhide your observation is interesting because if we go back to our old thread about Crow Bands and Leaders in 1858, we see that Dagbizaschush possibly equates to Bears Head, identified by Denig as the head chief of the River Crows. If so Hutton photographed the two principal Crow chiefs of the day, Two Face (Mountain Crow) and Bears Head (River Crow).
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Post by kingsleybray on Mar 28, 2022 11:40:41 GMT -5
Two Face, the Crow chief wearing the distinctive bear claw moccasins, was considered head chief of the Mountain Crows by Ft Union trader E. T. Denig. The moccasins are described in the Raynolds journal.
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Post by kingsleybray on Mar 28, 2022 11:16:27 GMT -5
Great post, thanks, grahamew! I don't have it in front of me, but F V Hayden's Contributions to the Ethnography, Philology etc. has some notes on the engraved versions of Hutton's photos. They identify the "Shyenne Brave" as Ribs, a Cheyenne-Lakota hunter for Agent Twiss. The "Dakota Medicine Man" is id'd as Iron Horn. The "Dakota Woman" is Matilda Galpin, aka Eagle Woman.
It's great to get id's on all four Arapaho chiefs photographed at Deer Creek. I'm familiar with the large Arapaho group picture, but never seen it this well reproduced and magnified. The Crow chiefs incl. Two Bears is a such a great picture. Would like to know more about some of the others, including the row of mounted warriors photographed from the rear.
And nice to see a photo of Bissonette's post.
Do we have clues to the tribal affiliations of "Tak-bi-tsa-kish" and "Su-rit"?
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Post by kingsleybray on Mar 12, 2022 8:46:40 GMT -5
gregor and other friends -- the picture of Big Horse and his wife sitting outside a doorway: the building looks to be the same one in a photo of two sons of Little Raven (Southern Arapaho). I may be remembering wrong, but I thought it was at Camp Supply and early 1870s.
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Post by kingsleybray on Jan 22, 2022 11:51:34 GMT -5
awesome new photo and details and interpretation . . . could the 'new' pic be another taken at the 1865 Ft Sully treaty councils?
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Post by kingsleybray on Sept 28, 2021 8:39:49 GMT -5
isn't that George Bent standing in front of the door in the previous pic?
more tentative -- is it Wolf Robe in the trailer headdress?
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Post by kingsleybray on Sept 22, 2021 16:25:55 GMT -5
Carlo I was interested to read that Catch the Bear belonged to the Kiglaska band. Where did you learn that detail? Thanks.
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Post by kingsleybray on Aug 26, 2021 3:56:19 GMT -5
great new batch of Morrow pictures, thanks grahamew. The picture at Grand River Agency must have been taken before July 1873, because that was when the agency was relocated northward to Standing Rock. Also I presume that the row of people at the front of the picture are sitting on the Missouri riverbank awaiting a boat about to dock.
That photo of men, some mounted, at a dance at Ft Thompson -- is awesome!
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Post by kingsleybray on Jul 12, 2021 16:45:01 GMT -5
I'm sure that the attitudes of both boys was shaped by the Grattan affair. Just from it being such a dramatic and momentous event. But there's 12 years between Grattan and Red Cloud's war, that's plenty of time for other influences. Now in their mid-20s (Crazy Horse) and coming up 30 (Young Man Afraid) both young men joined the war parties against the Bozeman Trail posts. This despite the fact that Old Man Afraid of His Horse was trying to steer a negotiated solution out of the crisis.
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Post by kingsleybray on Jul 11, 2021 14:00:47 GMT -5
Old Man Afraid of His Horse (c. 1807/8-1889) was present at the Grattan fight in 1854. His son, later known as Young Man Afraid of His Horse, was in the Oglala camp, a youth of 18 or so. Crazy Horse was younger, I think 13 at this time. He was also in the Oglala camp. The families were closely connected and knew each other well. In 1835 Old Man Afraid of His Horse had adopted as a hunka (ceremonial relative) one of Crazy Horse's cousins.
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Post by kingsleybray on Jun 23, 2021 17:00:46 GMT -5
Turning Bear, Mato Kawinge, c. 1843-1910, was the son of a Sicangu (Brule) headman named Gassy. In the 1883 Upper Brule camp circle obtained by Rev WJ Cleveland (posted in the Tribal Circles section of this site), there is listed a band called Kakega (Making a Grating Sound, used of antler rasps used by some warrior societies). This was the band associated with Turning Bear's family. This was a wicoti or extended family group, numbering between about 50 to 100+ people. Not a large social group, then. In the 1860s it ran with Two Strike's larger band, hence Josephine Waggoner's assignment of Turning Bear to Two Strike's band, Hinhansunwapaha (Owl Feather Headdress).
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Post by kingsleybray on May 24, 2021 6:33:58 GMT -5
As rawhide pointed out the Whetstone Agency for Spotted Tail's people, the Brule Lakota, was located from 1872 through 1874 at the confluence of Beaver creek and White river. When the Army arrived to take control in March 1874 they first located on a prominent hill which commands the area. I was lucky enough to be shown the site a few years ago by historian James A. Hanson, director of the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska. You could still see earthworks and ditches where they dug in. During 1874 the agency, formally renamed Spotted Tail Agency, was moved 8 or so miles up Beaver creek. The Army moved too, and built Camp Sheridan a mile or so downstream.
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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 14, 2021 16:29:25 GMT -5
On October 22, 2017, hreinn posted:
"Did Crow Feather 1 and Iron Whiteman belong to the same band, i.e. Bull Dung band (Tatanka Chesli) ?"
The answer hreinn, is yes. Crow Feather's core family group was the Saoni or Saone. It was a sub-band maybe 50 to 100 people nested within the larger Tatanka Cesli or Bull Dung band (maybe 200+ people). In the 18th and early 19th century the name Saone was extended to the Sans Arc as a whole, and even to the whole northernmost tribal division of the Titonwan. That reflects its size and influence at that early period.
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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 13, 2021 3:45:57 GMT -5
the world has lost a great person, my friend LaDonna Tamakawastewin Allard. Her name there means Her Good Earth Woman and she strove tirelessly to keep her native soil and the planet clean and safe for the generations that come after us. When Big Oil was trying to lay a pipeline across the Missouri river on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, she knew that meant all environments downstream would be endangered -- and that's all the way into the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Ocean. In short it meant all of us PlanetWide. So she fought and she inspired other people to fight, and she placed her people the Oceti Sakowin or Lakota back where they belong, at the frontline of history. That battle has been won. Other battles loom. She left us all with a legacy of grace and loving awareness. For me, she opened many doors. I thank her, and am grateful in Four Directions that I knew her. I hope and pray she's with Miles, laughing, preparing a place again for us. Ho, in every Direction may it be good!
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