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Dakota Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 159 Collections and/or Records:

A group of Native Americans gathered at Pierre, South Dakota in 1906 for a dance. Postcard., 1906

 Item — Box Photo C-113, item: 2802
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1906

A Native American invited Isabel Campbell to dance at Interior, SD, 1924. One copy., 1924

 Item — Box Photo C-106, item: 1845
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1924

A row of older Sioux? Indians standing in front of a tepee: Prairie Fire, Drifting Goose, Fast Walker, and his wife, 1906. Postcard., 1906

 Item — Box Photo C-113, item: 2805
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1906

A Sioux woman and two Sioux men, one in a headdress standing in front of a tepee. Draped over the entrance of the tepee is an American Flag., Undated

 Item — Box Photo H-6, item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of American Indians, including Caddo, Cheyenne, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Navajo, Pueblo, and Sioux; airplanes; baseball players; Belle Starr; businesses; cowboys; the land run of 1889; mining operations in Nome, Alaska; mining; schools; soldiers; street scenes; tornado damage in Duke, Oklahoma; the Anadarko Indian Fair in Anadarko, Oklahoma; Baxter, Hawarden, and Smithland, Iowa; Fort Riley, Kansas; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Cameron, Missouri; and Fort Gibson, Fort Sill, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

A Sioux woman carries a heavy load, 1908.  From The North American Indian, portfolio III, plate 100., 1908

 Item — Box Photo C-62A, item: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of images by photographer Edward S. Curtis showing Cheyenne tribal ceremonies, societies, and dances, and the traditional housing types of Indians of the southwestern U.S. Included are photographs of the Cheyenne sun dance, warrior societies, and the individuals Woista and Shot-In-The-Hand. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: 1908

An old colored p.c. of a Sioux in the Badlands. He stands in front of a tipi., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-15, item: 105
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Navajo, Kiowa, Seminole, Pueblo, Cherokee, and Apache Indians. Also included are photographs of baskets from the Aleut, Apache, Attu, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Clallam, Eskimo, Delaware, Havasupai, Haida, Hupa, Klikitat, Kickapoo, Karok, Klamath, Lillooet, Maidu, Makah, Modoc, Mono, Navajo, Nez Perce, Nootka, Paiute, Papago, Penobscot, Pima, Pomo, Pueblo, Hopi, Quinault, Seneca, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Ntlakyapamuk, Umatilla, Wailaki, Wasco, Washo, Winnebago, and Yokut tribes. The collection also contains views of archaeological work in the southwest United States, including Oklahoma City, Fort Sill, Okeene, Anadarko, Idabel, and Ardmore, Oklahoma; San Ildefonso, Santa Fe and Chimayo, New Mexico; and San Antonio, Texas. Alice Marriott Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Andrew Ironroad and family, Sioux Indian dancers at Mandan, ND. Postcard. Photo by Lutz., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-109, item: 2039
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Black and white steel engraving of a “Dakotah Village.” (1853). Shows Indians sitting and standing around summer houses of elm bark on poles. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 135
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of a “Dog Dance of the Dahcotas.” (1853). Many Indians dancing around a pole from which raw dog liver is hanging. Some of the dancing Indians are eating the liver. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 137
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of “Dakotah Encampment.” (1853). Shows Indians sitting or standing around about twelve tepees pitched near a river. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 134
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of “Ec-ah-sa-pa, the Black Rock.” (1841). A first edition of the standing full-length portrait of a Sioux chief in full dress holding a spar. By G. Catlin from Catlin’s Letter and Notes. , 1841

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 101
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1841

Black and white steel engraving of the “Dance to the Giant.” (1853). Shows Indians males, wearing hats resembling crowns and skirts of leaves, dancing around two pots over a fire inside a tent. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 145
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of the “Scalp Dance of the Dacotahs.” (1853). Shows Indians dancing around holding poles from which are attached recently taken enemy scalps. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes.  , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 138
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engravings (2) of a “Prophet’s Lodge.” And a Medawisos.” (1856). The first shows a Chippewa religious ceremony and the latter, a Sioux religious ceremony. By J.C. Tidball from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes.  , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 167
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1856

Black Hawk, Sioux Native American, 1908, 1908

 Item — Box Photo L-13, item: 192
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1908

Boarding school at Pine Ridge, SD, Native American camp in foreground. One copy. Photo by C.T. Leedy., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-107, item: 2032
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show showing Native American visitors., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-88, item: 320
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Buried Far Away, Cocapa Indian boy. Crazy Bull, Sioux Indian boy wearing bonnet in 1899. F.A. Rinehart (photo by) – Omaha, Nebraska., 1899

 Item — Box Photo C-107, item: 1957
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1899

Cabinet card printed portrait of “High Horse, Sioux Chief, Copyrighted 1901 by Osborne Co. NY.”, 1901

 Item — Box Photo M-28, item: 58
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show and the 101 Ranch. Included in the collection are photographs of cowboy and cowgirl performers, the Miller brothers, and a production scene from a western film. Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1901

Canvas Sioux tepees at Ft. Randall, Dakota Territory prior to 1882. Stereoscope picture., 1882

 Item — Box Photo C-88, item: 315
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1882

Chief American-Horse (2 prints), undated

 Item — Box Photo N-9, item: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of prominent Sioux Indians such as Red Cloud, Yellow Shirt, Kicking Bear, American Horse, and Spotted Elk. Also included are photographs of White Swan (Crow) and Naiche (Apache).

Dates: undated

Chief Blue-Horse, undated

 Item — Box Photo N-9, item: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of prominent Sioux Indians such as Red Cloud, Yellow Shirt, Kicking Bear, American Horse, and Spotted Elk. Also included are photographs of White Swan (Crow) and Naiche (Apache).

Dates: undated

Chief Flat-Iron, undated

 Item — Box Photo N-9, item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of prominent Sioux Indians such as Red Cloud, Yellow Shirt, Kicking Bear, American Horse, and Spotted Elk. Also included are photographs of White Swan (Crow) and Naiche (Apache).

Dates: undated

Chief Red Cloud, undated

 Item — Box Photo N-9, item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of prominent Sioux Indians such as Red Cloud, Yellow Shirt, Kicking Bear, American Horse, and Spotted Elk. Also included are photographs of White Swan (Crow) and Naiche (Apache).

Dates: undated

Chief Red-Cloud, undated

 Item — Box Photo N-9, item: 32
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of prominent Sioux Indians such as Red Cloud, Yellow Shirt, Kicking Bear, American Horse, and Spotted Elk. Also included are photographs of White Swan (Crow) and Naiche (Apache).

Dates: undated

Chief Red Cloud, Ogalala Sioux, 1822-1909. Home, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Photographer: D.F. Barry., 1822-1909

 Item — Box Photo P-34c, Item: 3312
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: 1822-1909

Chief Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-26, Item: 1645
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated

Chief Scar Lake in full native dress. He was a great fighter. 1906., 1906

 Item — Box Photo C-113, item: 2801
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1906

Chief Spotted-Elk, undated

 Item — Box Photo N-9, item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of prominent Sioux Indians such as Red Cloud, Yellow Shirt, Kicking Bear, American Horse, and Spotted Elk. Also included are photographs of White Swan (Crow) and Naiche (Apache).

Dates: undated

Chief Standing Bear on horseback with shield in full dress., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-109, item: 2219
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated