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Post by Dietmar on Nov 3, 2016 15:49:41 GMT -5
Clarence Grant Morledge (sometimes spelled Moreledge) was one of the photographers present when events at Pine Ridge took place that led to the massacre at Wounded Knee. Morledge, only 19 years of age [or more likely 25 years, as an descendant here on this message board stated], arrived with a group of newspaper reporters in November 1890. Many of the photographs he took there over the next months can be found at the Denver Public Library in excellent quality. The photos often show groups of Indians, whites and soldiers. I wonder how many of them could be identified. Let´s try... The first one post is a photograph of US troops. Among them are two unidentified Indians. Do they look familiar to anyone? "Pine Ridge Agency, S.D. army camp Red Cloud, Native American Oglala Lakota Sioux, poses among U. S. uniformed soldiers holding rifles in the wall tent camp, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. The boarding school shows in background." Surely there is no Red Cloud in the picture...
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 3, 2016 16:34:06 GMT -5
...after thinking a while... the man on left could be High Bear, Oglala.
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 3, 2016 16:50:48 GMT -5
Here´s another one: "Claymore & Yellow Birch Store" by C.G. Morledge The man with the blanket, tomahawk and hat looks important. Does anyone recognize him?
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Post by kingsleybray on Nov 4, 2016 4:03:50 GMT -5
the fellow on the right in the top picture, with epaulets on his jacket --- we've seen him before I'm sure
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 4, 2016 18:36:00 GMT -5
Right now I wonder if he could be Crazy Bear.
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 5, 2016 5:52:46 GMT -5
High Bear comparison:
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 5, 2016 6:00:47 GMT -5
Big Nose comparison:
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 5, 2016 18:45:56 GMT -5
Crazy Bear comparison:
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Post by grahamew on Nov 6, 2016 6:12:24 GMT -5
Not so sure about High Bear, but I think the other two are definite.
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Post by kingsleybray on Nov 6, 2016 6:57:53 GMT -5
There's a full-length George Trager portrait of Crazy Bear in Jensen, Paul & Carter, Eyewitness at Wounded Knee (Univ. Nebraska Press, 1991), p. 11. The same man as in Dietmar's comparison above.
This man may be the same Crazy Bear (Mato Gnaskinyan - lit. Enraged Bear) listed in the 1890 Pine Ridge census, under the Siksicela band, White Clay District, age given as 53.
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 7, 2016 11:10:03 GMT -5
We´ve had this photograph by Morledge in the "Big Road"-thread... it shows newspaper reporters with an unidentified Indian man. As I had stated earlier, I think he is Big Road, Oglala: from left to right: C.H. Cressey (Omaha Bee Correspondent), William F. Kelley (Nebraska State Journal), Major John Burke, Big Road, Alfred Burkholder (New York Herald), Chamberlain (South Dakota Gazette), Charles W. Allen, (Chadron Democrat/New York Herald) [identifications of white men by Denver Public Library] Read more: amertribes.proboards.com/thread/315/big-road?page=1#ixzz4PL8sfNO0Big Road, Oglala
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 7, 2016 11:20:52 GMT -5
I believe here is another photo by Morledge that shows Big Road: "Omaha Dance" by Morledge Big Road, standing with eagle fan Can we identify others in the picture?
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Post by grahamew on Nov 7, 2016 11:58:29 GMT -5
Hmmm. Wonder if the man with the bonnet is wearing one of those capes over his shoulder...? To be honest, the man with the hat and feather looks vaguely familiar. Good Buffalo Bull?
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 7, 2016 12:43:17 GMT -5
Could be him, indeed! Good Buffalo Bull... a delegate to Washington in 1872.
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Post by Dietmar on Nov 7, 2016 12:50:21 GMT -5
The interpreter to the left of Big Road, with hat, suspenders and big tie, to me resembles John Shangreau.
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