Blackfoot man, Richard Sanderville and wife
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.395 C 1
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Blackfeet
culture: label: Culture
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Richard Sanderville, mixed blood Piegan, was born at Fort Benton in 1866. His father was part Indian and part Spanish. His mother was Little Bird Woman, a Piegan full Blood. Both his father and grandfather were interpreters for the American Fur Co. He was educated on the Flathead Reservation, Montana and in 1889, was a member of the first group of Piegan to attend Carlisle Indian school. He returned to the reservation in 1894 and began work for the Indian service. Until his retirement Dick served as official interpreter on the Blackfoot Reservation (i.e. a period of over 40 years). He was a great friend of General Hugh L. Scott, sign language expert. Dick, himself an accomplished sign talker, was called to Washington in 1934, after General Scott's death, to complete the dictionary of the Indian sign language for the Bureau of American Ethnology. He is still living on the Blackfoot Reservation in 1949. His wife was living on my visit to the reservation in 1947. (J.C. Ewers, U.S. National Museum, January, 1949).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (4x6 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs