Photographs related to the Sioux and Battle of Wounded Knee

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  Remains of an Indian camp after a battle -- possibly Wounded Knee

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  Photo of Lakota camp after Wounded Knee Massacre with Lakota bodies wrapped in blankets in the foreground.

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  The Medicine Man, taken at the Battle of Wounded Knee S.D

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  Photo of a Lakota medicine man killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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  Burial of the Dead at the Battlefield at Wounded Knee, S.D

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  Photo of mass Lakota burial after the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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  Florence Barclay Hyatt Photograph Collection

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  This collection contains 50 photographs (28 prints, 21 tintypes, and 1 daguerreotype), collected by Florence Barclay Hyatt (born 1865), who moved with her family to the Dakota Territory as a child and later ran a boarding house in Bismarck, North Dakota. The photographs include 14 card photographs chronicling the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in southwestern South Dakota from 1890 to 1891. Photographs show images of the corpses of Sioux Indians in a mass grave, Chief Hollow Wood, Chief Young Man Afraid of his Horses, council meetings amongst Sioux chiefs, the Ghost Dance, Pine Ridge Indian Agency, Indian police, the Pine Ridge Agency hospital, Indian men and women, and the remnants of Indian camps. Eight views of the mid-Western United States include Sioux Indian Red Tomahawk; Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota; the 1890 Corn Palace in Sioux City, Iowa; and various nature scenes. The Northwestern Photographic Company created the Wounded Knee Massacre photographs (1-14). F.B. Fiske created photograph (15) of Red Tomahawk, and Brown & Wait created photograph (21) of the Corn Palace at Sioux City, Iowa. Additionally, the collection also includes 28 Civil War era tintypes, carte-de-visites and card photographs, and one daguerreotype depicting Florence Barclay Hyatt's family members from the Askren, Johnson, Kirkpatrick, Messenger, and Ruark families. Some of the sitters have been identified while others remain unknown.

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  Peter C. Wolcott diaries and expense book, (bulk 1877-1897)

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  The collection contains four diaries and one expense book belonging to Peter C. Wolcott, dating from 1877 to 1895. Wolcott's early diary from 1877 to 1878 covers his time at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. He writes about his classes, school life and friends, as well as comments on religion, sermons heard and given, and baptisms. Volumes 2 and 3 cover Wolcott's time in South Dakota at the Pine Ridge Agency (now Pine Ridge Reservation) among the Oglala Lakota Indians from 1880 to 1882. In these diaries, he writes about his daily activities, indigenous ceremonies, both in English and Lakota, and gives details about baptisms he performed, for both children and adults. Wolcott also mentions the Santee, Dakota, and the Rosebud Sioux, Tasunka Kokipapi (mistakenly known as Young Man Afraid of His Horses), the death of Red Cloud's granddaughter, and physician and Indian Agent at Pine Ridge, Valentine McGillycuddy (1849-1939). Volume 3 contains a tintype of two unidentified indigenous boys dressed in suits and with their hair cut short, approximately 1880. Volume 4 covers Wolcott's trip to Japan and China from 1891 to 1892. There is also one folder with miscellaneous manuscripts such as receipts, correspondence, postcards, as well as two photographs of Peter C. Wolcott, approximately 1920.

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  Sioux

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  Studio portraits of Sioux leaders and scenes on the Sioux Agency in North Dakota: a schoolhouse, U. S. Agent's house; trade store; Devil's Lake; an Indian farm; Fort Totten and soldiers; native camps and views of dances. People identified: Red Cloud; Running Antelope; Sitting Bull; family of Sitting Bull in front of his tepee; American Horse; Spotted Tail. Photographers/publishers: Portrait of Red Cloud by Mathew Brady, 1872. Also D. F. Barry; unidentified.

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