Portrait of Brule Dakota man, Sinte-galeshka or Spotted Tail
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content: NAA INV 10000504 ; OPPS NEG 3118
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content: Spotted Tail has long been the chief of the Brule Sioux, and since his conversion from an intense hostility to an unswerving friendship for the white people has by them been looked upon and considered as the great chief of all the Sioux. The honors of this position are equally divided between Red Cloud and Spotted Tail; each is chief of his band only, the Indians themselves not recognizing any one man as chief of the whole nation; but their great executive abilities, oratorical powers, and popularity with both whites and Indians, have been the means of putting them forward as the champions of their people. ; In his younger days Spotted Tail was a daring and audacious chief, murdering and massacreing wherever he went. In 1854, he and his band attached a coach, murdered all the passengers, and perpetrated horrible enormities on the dead. He was eventually captured, and imprisoned for about six months in the guardhouse at Fort Leavenworth, during which time his feelings underwent a great change. Instead of a determined foe of the pale-faces, he became their earnest friend and coadjutor in the work of pacification. It has been well said of him that "he was worth more to the Government than a dozen major-generals, with their armies to back them." -- Jackson Catalogue, 1877.
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content: Washington DC
name: label: Creator
content: Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910
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content: Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Glass Negatives / Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910
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content: 1 Glass negative
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1877
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative 3118
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content: Archival materials
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content: Glass negatives
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content: Born near Fort Laramie, Wyoming about 1833. Was killed by Crow-dog near Rosebud Agency, South Dakota August 5, 1881. A biographical sketch appears in "The Antiquarian" Volume I, pages 47-8; 76-78.