White Thunder
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.55933
label: Local Note
content: White Thunder. The Brule sub-chief was noted for his fearless display of bravery while in combat with his adversaries. Both white and Indians soon learned to fear and respect him as the Sioux wars progressed and expanded throughout the northwest. On one of those hostile incursions into enemy territory he was credited for the slaying and scalping of the noted and esteemed Omaha Chieftain Logan Fontenelle of the Omaha tribe. This one noteworthy feat earned him the honor and prestige befitting a rising warrior.
label: Local Note
content: During the final days of the Sioux's heroic stand to check military aggression he was inducted into military service as a scout, and while acting in his capacity as a scout the Crazy Horse episode was the major issue confronting both civilian and military authorities stationed at the two frontier posts, Fort Sheridan, and Fort Robinson. On the morning of September 5th, 1877, it was no other than the converted White Thunder who headed a bodyguard of nine Brule scouts that escorted the wiley warrior to Post Robinson, Nebr. [Details in last sentence questionable]. William J. Bordeaux, Custer's Conqueror, [1952 ?], following page 16.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893
culture: label: Culture
content: Dakota -- Brule
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Brulé Indians
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Date: Not recorded; possibly 1880.

Apparently taken in Washington when White Thunder was a member of a delegation.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
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