Portrait of Osage man, Wa-non'-she'-zhin-ga or Little Soldier
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content: NAA INV 10010300 ; OPPS NEG 4105 A
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content: Department of the Interior Information Service. Bureau of Indian Affairs. For immediate release August 30, 1949. Death of Osage Chief Lookout. William Zimmerman, Jr., Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, today sent a telegram of condolence to Mrs Julia Lookout, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, wife of the nationally-known Osage Chief Fred Lookout, who died in Pawhuska Sunday. Mr Zimmerman's telegram is as follows: "Please accept my deepest sympathy. Chief Lookout dedicated his long life to the best interests of his people, was well as to the best interests of other Americans. His memory willlng be treasured by all those in our nation who cherish character, high integrity and devotion to the betterment of our fellow men. "Mr Lookout was 88 years old. He had been Principal Chief of the Osage Indians since 1924, and was serving his eighth term as the most prominent official of the tribe at the time of his death. ; Chief Lookout grew to manhood in the ways of Oklahoma's early frontier. Born in 1861 in the camp of the Little Osage Band on the Neosho River, Osage Mission, now St Paul, Kansas, he was a member of the Eagle Clan; and his Osage name when translated means The Little Eagle Who Gets What He Wants. He was the son of Eagle That Dreams and is said to have inherited the qualities of leadership from his father who united the two families of the Osage Indians into one group in order to preserve their interests during the beginning of their settlement in the Southwest. Chief Lookout was educated at the Carlisle Indian Training School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and White's Quaker Institute, Salem, Iowa. Elections for Chief, Assistant Chief, and Tribal Councilmen are held every four years, but in case of death the Tribal Council itself determines the successorship in accordance with provisions of the Osage Act of 1929.
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content: Washington DC
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Glass Negatives / Gill, De Lancey W.
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content: 1 Glass negative
unitdate: label: Date
content: Jul 1898
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative 4105 A
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content: Archival materials
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content: Glass negatives
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content: Also called Fred Lookout. Honga (sacred) gens. Carlisle graduate. Delegate to Washington, 1898. Home: Osage Reservation, Oklahoma.