Old Photos - Yankton

[Historian]

Walking Elk - Yankton - 1857


Smutty Bear - Yankton - 1858


Running Buffalo Bull - Yankton - 1858


Jumping Thunder - Yankton - 1858


Walking Elk - Yankton - 1858


Struck A Pawnee - Yankton - 1858


Yankton woman - 1867


Walks Home Staggering - Yankton - 1867


Standing Elk - Yankton - 1867


Standing Elk - Yankton - no date


Little Thunder - Yankton - 1867


First To Catch Enemy - Yankton - 1867


First To Kill - Yankton - 1867


Struck A Pawnee - Yankton - 1867


Iron Black Bird - Yankton - 1867


Feather In The Ear - Yankton - 1867


Sacred Buffalo Bull - Yankton - 1867


Flying Pipe - Yankton - 1867


Two Lances - Yankton - 1867


Black Eagle - Yankton - 1867


Standing Sacred Buffalo Cow - Yankton - 1867


Standing Sacred Buffalo Cow - Yankton - 1867


Big War Bonnet - Yankton/Hunkpapa - 1867


The Bird - Yankton - 1867


White Swan - Yankton - 1867


White Swan - Yankton - 1867


Long Foot - Yankton - 1867


Long Foot - Yankton - 1867


Long Foot - Yankton - 1867


Long Foot - Yankton - 1867


Pretty Rock - Yankton - 1867


Bear Walks Lying Down - Yankton - 1867


Yankton man - circa 1867


Yankton family - circa 1868


Left Hand - Yankton - circa 1868


Bear Walks Lying Down - Yankton - 1869


Yankton man - circa 1875


Yankton man - circa 1875


Brave Bear - Yankton - 1880


Yankton girl – no date


Mad Bear - Yankton - no date


Iron Bear - Yankton - 1904


Thunder Horse - Yankton - 1904


White Swan - Yankton - 1904


White Swan - Yankton - 1905


White Swan - Yankton - 1905


Hollow Horn - Yankton - 1905


Not Afraid Of Pawnee - Yankton - 1905


Big Tobacco - Yankton - 1905


Yellow Thunder - Yankton - 1905


Charging Bear - Yankton - 1905


Shooting Hawk - Yankton - 1905


Yankton men – 1905


Yankton men – 1905


Yankton men – 1905


Yankton men – 1905


Black Chicken (aka Prairie Hen) - Yankton - 1905


Eagle Track - Yankton - 1905


Iron Owl - Yankton - 1905


His Hoop - Yankton - 1905


Eagle Dog - Yankton - 1908


Pretty Voice Eagle - Yankton - circa 1908


Red Fish - Yankton/Santee - 1912


Claude Iron Cedar - Yankton - 1912


Red Arrow - Yankton - 1913

[clarkkimberling]

One of these photos has the caption Big War Bonnet - Yankton/Hunkpapa - 1867.

The same image, if I'm not mistaken, occurs on page 27 of Singing for a Spirit, by Vine Deloria, Jr. There, the caption is as follows:

Saswe, 1868. A portrait taken in Washington, D.C., during the renegotiation of the 1858 treaty. Author's collection.

The author was Saswe's great-grandson. Saswe was a chief, and his descendents included distinguished priests and writers Philip Joseph Deloria, Ella Deloria, Vine Deloria Sr., and Vine Deloria, Jr.

Can someone authenticate the first of the two captions?

[Historian]

Mar 10, 2011 17:35:54 GMT -5 clarkkimberling said:

One of these photos has the caption Big War Bonnet - Yankton/Hunkpapa - 1867.

The same image, if I'm not mistaken, occurs on page 27 of Singing for a Spirit, by Vine Deloria, Jr. There, the caption is as follows:

Saswe, 1868. A portrait taken in Washington, D.C., during the renegotiation of the 1858 treaty. Author's collection.

The author was Saswe's great-grandson. Saswe was a chief, and his descendents included distinguished priests and writers Philip Joseph Deloria, Ella Deloria, Vine Deloria Sr., and Vine Deloria, Jr.

Can someone authenticate the first of the two captions?

The Yankton/Hunkpapa/French man known as Big War Bonnet (or Big Feathered Headdress) was also know by at least 8 other names that I am aware of as well:
1. Ceca Hinna
2. Chief With Big War Bonnet
3. Saswe
4. E-ha-we-cha-sha
5. Hinhan Wicasa
6. Owl Man
7. Francois de Laurier
8. Frank Deloria

[Dietmar]

The official catalogue descriptions also differ from each other, he´s Big War Bonnet in the Jackson catalogue, but Delaurier in the Shindler catalogue:

Album 1, leaf 63, photograph f
Title: Chief with Big War Bonnet, Yankton Dakota.
Description: 1867. 19 x 14 cm. Title supplied from index of William Henry Jackson's 1877 Descriptive catalogue of photographs of North American Indians, negative no. 895.
Shindler catalogue no. 16. Delaurier or Half-Breed is name supplied by Shindler catalogue.
Possibly printed by Jackson.
Creator(s): Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno). Jackson, William Henry.

[clarkkimberling]

Thank you, HinTamaheca and Dietmar.

I am wondering if other photos of Frank Deloria (Saswe) have survived. Also, the following, who were surely acquainted with the Delorias:

Geoge Dowanna (Red Owl, Redowl)
Charles S. Cook (adopted son of Joseph W. Cook)
Jessie W. Cook (wife of Charles S. Cook)

[dingy]

[Californian]

Bull Bear (Thathanka Matho), also known as Eugene Bull Bear - a Yankton Dakota from the Cannonball district at Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota section - ca. 1930
According to various entries in the Indian Census his birth year is 1873 - photograph taken ca. 1930's

click onto image to enlarge

[smacmill]

I am unable to view these old Yankton photos. What's the trick? I would very like to view the one "Left Hand - Yankton", as he was my great great grandmother's brother.

[grahamew]

I'd like to help you but, unfortunately, the poster must have used a picture server that no longer works. I had the same issue with TinyPic. I can only hope that the PostImage site I now use doesn't go down

[Dietmar]

I hate to disappoint you smacmill, but the photo of "Left Hand - Yankton - circa 1868" was a mis-identification by Cowan`s auction site. Actually it showed Iron Nation, the Lower Brule chief.

[Dietmar]

However, this portrait could be more likely your ancestor:

Crazy Walker aka Left Hand, a Yankton delegate to Washington in 1867:

Portrait (Front) of Ki-Wa-Sinya Mani or Ku-Was-Chin-A-Nia-Ni (One Who Walks Home Staggering) or Teah-Ne-Kea Ske-Mani (Crazy Walker) or Kna-Skin-Ya-Ma-Ni (He Walks Mad)

[SIRIS, Smithsonian Institute]

In the Yankton Scouts list of 1864 he is recorded as:

Left Hand.... Knaskinyanmani

[gregor]

Feb 28, 2024 15:43:26 GMT -5 smacmill said:

I am unable to view these old Yankton photos. What's the trick? I would very like to view the one "Left Hand - Yankton", as he was my great great grandmother's brother.

For more Yankton / Yanktonai photographs, see here

www.cartermuseum.org/artists/zeno-shindler?page=1

The Amon Carter Museum shows 125 A. Zeno Shindler photographs online.