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Post by Dietmar on Sept 6, 2019 10:06:26 GMT -5
An old thread, but it seems I´ve found an image of the first police unit at Standing Rock in an old newspaper article: The same picture taken from Nebraska Historical Society: I wish there was a better scan...
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Post by glenbow on Dec 11, 2019 10:16:14 GMT -5
Thanks so much Dietmar. Do you recall which newspaper printed this article?
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Post by Dietmar on Dec 11, 2019 16:42:48 GMT -5
Hi Glenbow, it was printed in The Bismarck Tribune, June 20, 1936.
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Post by Sallie on Apr 1, 2020 13:42:16 GMT -5
I have an old photo of a Standing Rock police about 1900
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Post by Sallie on Apr 1, 2020 17:48:57 GMT -5
Thank you! and on the back of this photo, all it says is "Little Eagle".
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Post by Dietmar on Apr 1, 2020 17:57:37 GMT -5
I´m not sure if this Little Eagle is from Standing Rock, Sallie. The photographers backdrop is one also seen in pictures archived by the Nebraska Historical Society: Herman Conquering Bear of Allen, South Dakota
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Post by Dietmar on Apr 1, 2020 18:02:26 GMT -5
Here´s a picture again with the same backdrop, this time with a man named Lawrence Little Eagle. Doesn´t he look like the same man as in your picture?: Charles Little Elk & Lawrence Little Eagle Other pictures from the same series also seem to have taken at Pine Ridge.
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Post by Dietmar on Apr 1, 2020 18:35:00 GMT -5
According to the Nebraska State Historical Society the three photos above were taken by B. F. Ray. He operated a studio in Rushville, Nebraska.
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Post by Dietmar on Apr 2, 2020 8:26:25 GMT -5
Lawrence Little Eagle indeed was a policeman on Pine Ridge around 1900. I´m convinced that he is the man in both photographs above.
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Post by Dietmar on Aug 22, 2021 6:41:14 GMT -5
Grahame has posted this better version of the 1883 Standing Rock police picture in another thread: Indian police at Fort Yates. 1883? Photo taken at Standing Rock Agency July 4th 1883: (1) afraid of nothing (2) --- Bear (3) Kaddy (4) Little Soldier (5) Red Bear (6) (7) Train Thunder (8) (9) Standing Soldier (10) Grasping Eagle (11) Red L---hawk (12) Train Eyes (13) Crazy Walking (14) Good Wood (15) Good Voiced Eagle (16) Foul Bear (17) Brown Wolf (18) Alex Middle (1) ------ (2) Alex Duff - Farmer (3) Frank Stinunuity? - Blacksmith (4) Mr. Presneun? - Janator (5) Mr. Miller- Clerk (6) Col. Sterrorl?- Chief Clerk (7) Major McLaughlin - agent (8) Dr. Merrill? (9) Jim Merrill - Clerk --ssue (10) Philip Wells - interpreter (11) Barney Praugue - Carpenter (12) Jue Hedmiry - School farmer (13) Sport Whutsell- farmer. statemuseum.nd.gov/database/photobook/index.php?content=photobook-itemdetails&ID=PH_I_89128&CollectionNmbr=D&PBID=100923
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Post by Dietmar on Aug 22, 2021 6:59:22 GMT -5
As you can see, some of the names above recorded by the archive are badly corrupted. Last year I´ve tried to find more proper identifications for some of them. However, please let me know if corrections have to be made: The Indian officers of the 1883 police force at Standing Rock were Captain Crazy Walking and Lt. Iron Eye. Interesting to also see Red Tomahawk, who later killed Sitting Bull.
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Post by jond1167 on Sept 21, 2022 12:45:22 GMT -5
Wakalapi, In George E. Hyde's "A Sioux Chronicle" he mentions on on page 29 that on May 27, 1878, Congress passed a bill providing for the recruiting of Indian police forces on all reservations. On page 31 he says that in 1878-1879 when the Indian Office ordered the forming of police forces at the agencies, the Sioux at both Cheyenne River and Standing Rock submitted. In 'My Friend The Indian' James McLaughlin mentions on page 101 that on 10th June 1882, he was out hunting buffalo with a gathering of Indians from Standing Rock, including John Eagle Man "the latter an Indian policeman." So the Standing Rock Indian police force was clearly up and running at that date. I hop this helps.
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jond1167
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Post by jond1167 on Sept 21, 2022 12:53:33 GMT -5
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