Delegation: "School Committee" from Pine Ridge
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV.10000520

OPPS NEG.3238 E
label: Local Note
content: See OPPS Negative 3238 D for enlargement of Chief Red Cloud.
label: Local Note
content: See OPPS Negative 3238 EE for enlargement of American Horse.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy film negative
label: Place
content: District of Columbia -- Washington
name: label: Creator
content: C. M. Bell Studio
label: Names
content: American Horse, 1840-1908
label: Names
content: Bridgeman, John
label: Names
content: Little Wound
label: Names
content: Red Cloud, 1822-1909
label: Names
content: Red Dog, Oglala chief
label: Names
content: Red Shirt (Dakota)
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: C. M. Bell Studio
culture: label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / C. M. Bell Studio
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Date: 1880 [date supplied by Harry Anderson, 1956.] Photo made in C. M. Bell Studio. Partly identified by Harry Anderson, 1956.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Red Dog, Little Wound, Red Cloud, American Horse, Red Shirt. Interpreter: John Bridgeman.

This is the "school committee" from Pine Ridge that went to Carlisle, Penn. to investigate the condition of the Sioux students there in 1880. From Carlisle, they and a number of of other chiefs went on to Washington to talk with government and railroad officials about permitting the railroads to cross the reservation. My material from the official records shows that Red Cloud, Red Shirt, Little Wound, and American Horse were four of the five chiefs representing the Oglalas. The fifth man was Red Dog, chief of the Oglala Oyukhpe band, and I think it would be safe to assume that he is the unidentified Indian seated on the extreme left, next to Little Wound. I have never seen a photo of Red Dog with which I could check this assumption. The Archives has a set of volumes containing photos by Gardner of the Sioux delegations in 1872. Red Dog went to Washington in 1872, but unfortunately, the volume containing the photos of the Oglala delegation is not with the others in the set. Red Dog was a close companion of Red Cloud and also supported the latter in his schemes. Both came to Washington in 1870, but I never saw any photos taken of that delegation. The white man standing behind the seated chiefs is John Bridgeman, who served as interpreter for the Pine Ridge delegation. Incidentally, I'm sure the two photos of Red Shirt used by Schmitt & Brown were taken at the same time this group photo was made. -- Harry Anderson, 119-11 233 St., St Albans 11, N. Y., Apl 2, 1956 to Mrs Blaker. Correspondence in Smithsonian Institution Files.