Rock Island Arsenal photograph collection related to the Wounded Knee Massacre, Battle of Little Big Horn, Sauk and Fox Indians
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R82-57
name: label: Collector
content: Rock Island Arsenal (Ill.)
label: Photographer
content: Northwestern Photographic Company
label: Names
content: United States. Army
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sauk & Fox

Meskwaki

Sioux
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
label: Topic
content: Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
creator: label: Collector
content: Rock Island Arsenal (Ill.)
culture: label: Culture
content: Sauk
label: Culture
content: Fox
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Rock Island Arsenal is located on an island in the Mississippi River between the cities of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois.  With the construction of Fort Armstrong in 1816, it was established as a government site.  Fort Armstrong, located just a few miles from the principal Sac and Fox village, was one of a series of western frontier defenses built by the army.  The treaty ending the Black Hawk war was signed at Fort Armstrong in 1832, and the fort was garrisoned until 1836.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Copy prints donated by James R. Cooper, Chief of the Historical Office at Rock Island Arsenal, 1982.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R82-57
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Rock Island County Historical Society and Historical Section of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, Official book of the Fort Armstrong Centennial Celebration: 1816-1919, Rock Island, IL: E.O. Vaile, Jr., 1916.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Images include gathering of the dead after the Massacre at Wounded Knee, January 1, 1891; a portrait of the wife of Chief Montana and captured Sioux warriors and United States Army soldiers after the Battle of Little Big Horn. A large portion of the collection represents Rock Island County history and includes images of Keokuk, chief of the Sacs Indians; Black Hawk, a war chief of the Sacs Indians; Logan Ka-ka-que, grandson of Black Hawk; Se-us-kuk, son of Black Hawk; Mary Ka-ka-que, great-great-granddaughter of Black Hawk; Jesse Ka-ka-que, great-grandson of Black Hawk; part of a Fox Indian memorial post placed at the grave of Colonel George Davenport; and summer and winter homes for Sac and Fox Indians.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by the Northwestern Photographic Company can be found in the national Anthropological Archives in MS 4464, 4598, and 4574, and Photo Lots 24 and 90-1.