Post by dickmill on Jan 10, 2009 10:48:16 GMT -5
With a little experimentation and help from Dietmar, I can (hopefully) display some photos now. If you see a photo of my great-great-great uncle (my great grandmother's uncle) Col L.F. Spencer and Spotted Tail Jr. in this post, then we've been successful!
My posts and photos will primarily address the period of 1886-1890. The most significant events effecting the Lakota were the Sioux Commissions of 1888 (Pratt) and 1889 (Crook), and the 1890 events surrounding Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee. Although all these events dealt with the 6 "Sioux" agencies (Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, Crow Creek -- sometimes mistakenly called "reservations", which they became after the Great Sioux Reservation was broken up in 1889), my focus has been on Rosebud.
I'll try and work my way through this thread by addressing comments I have to the posts in order, so you may have to jump back a few pages (unless the ability to reply directly to a post in the thread is added.) In particular, I'll try and add to photos regarding delegations to Washington and Spotted Tail family members.
This post showing Spencer with Spotted Tail Jr. is a good jumping off spot. There is much confusion about Jr. (especially some things that Hyde gets wrong in his books.) He is often confused with William and vice-versa. More on that as we go forward, but for now -- here's my uncle Colonel Lebbeus Foster Spencer (Colonel and Major were "honorary" titles given to agents; "Libbeus" sometimes appears in error -- his mother was illiterate and documents which she signed with an "X" sometimes had his name spelled phonetically with the "i".)
My posts and photos will primarily address the period of 1886-1890. The most significant events effecting the Lakota were the Sioux Commissions of 1888 (Pratt) and 1889 (Crook), and the 1890 events surrounding Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee. Although all these events dealt with the 6 "Sioux" agencies (Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, Crow Creek -- sometimes mistakenly called "reservations", which they became after the Great Sioux Reservation was broken up in 1889), my focus has been on Rosebud.
I'll try and work my way through this thread by addressing comments I have to the posts in order, so you may have to jump back a few pages (unless the ability to reply directly to a post in the thread is added.) In particular, I'll try and add to photos regarding delegations to Washington and Spotted Tail family members.
This post showing Spencer with Spotted Tail Jr. is a good jumping off spot. There is much confusion about Jr. (especially some things that Hyde gets wrong in his books.) He is often confused with William and vice-versa. More on that as we go forward, but for now -- here's my uncle Colonel Lebbeus Foster Spencer (Colonel and Major were "honorary" titles given to agents; "Libbeus" sometimes appears in error -- his mother was illiterate and documents which she signed with an "X" sometimes had his name spelled phonetically with the "i".)