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Indians of North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9150
Scope and content Three scrapbooks, one titled Sioux on the warpath, one titled Indians on the warpath, and one untitled. The books contain newspaper clippings regarding Indians, particularly the Sioux, and the events leading up to and shortly after the Wounded Knee massacre. Clippings discuss the people involved, the Ghost Dance, thoughts on how to disarm the Indians, mention of individuals coming over from Great Britain to aid soldiers at the Pine Ridge Agency, Sitting Bull's death, some other events...
Dates: 1890.

Tracing made from a painted buckskin showing tribal history

 Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1
Identifier: 9012
Scope and content This is a tracing of a deer skin history made by Wounded Bear, Ogallala Sioux. The tracing was made by E. J. Bush. Two versions of the tracing are included. The collection also contains 2 typed translations of the drawings and 1 handwritten copy, plus provenance notes. A note with the collection states that the original deerskin has been lost. A separate note, from E. K. Bennett, states that on June 20, 1938, Mr. Bush reported that the original deer skin was offered for sale through Ben...
Dates: 1894.