Blackfoot Dakota man, John Grass or Jumping Bear
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content: OPPS NEG.3115 C 2
label: Local Note
content: Chief John Grass (Heading) "Chief Jumping Bear was known as the Great Sioux orator. Jumping Bear and Chief Gall were the two judges of the Indian Court held at Standing Rock, Dakota, and had a strong sense of right and justice. I don't know of a court in the land where you could get all the justice you were entitled to. If guilty, these two judges simply gave you the limit. "I don't know of a court where there was more dignity displayed than in that Indian court. When the court was open, the Indians would come in on tip-toe, remove their hats and be seated. "Jumping Bear was a progressive Indian. You couldn't class him as an orator. He had a most remarkable memory. In council when he was speaking he never made gestures, but talked good, sound sense. He had a very cordial way of greeting people and got the reputation of being the Great Orator of the Sioux." -- Note on photo the Burdick Collection of Barry photographs. (February 1937) "Jumping Bear, known as Chief John Grass"
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content: Apparently same as John Grass or Charging Bear, son of Pezhi or John Grass; compare negatives 3113 a, b.
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content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Barry, David Francis
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Barry, David Francis
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot -- Dakota
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Barry, David Francis
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content: 1 Photograph (5x7 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Reproduced in Lawrence A. Frost, The Custer Album, Superior Publishing Company, Seattle, 1964, page 160.
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content: Photographs