Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0216Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a group of Sioux riding horses. Above the image "T130 (Star)" is printed, below the image 16718 Mounted Sioux Indians in "Full Feather" Leaving Camp, Nebr." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
182-(16718)
SIOUX INDIANS IN FULL FEATHER, NEBRASKA
Lat. 43 (Degrees) N. ; Long. 101 (Degrees) W.
Do you remember "The Peace Pipe" in Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha? Here are a few lines from ti that fit this picture:
"And they stood there on teh meadow,
With their weapons and theri war-gear,
Painted the leaves of autumn,
Painted like the sky of morning...
.........
In their faces stern defiance,
In their hearts the feuds of ages."
Thesea are Sioux (pronunciation) Indians in full war paint and feather. This is the way they rode forth in days of old to do battle with an enemy tribe. And this is the way they looked when they went out on the bloody trail to slay the pale faces.
The Sioux are made up of many tribes such as the Dakotas, the Crows, the Kansans, the Iowas, the Omahas, and the Missouris. Their names were given to states and cities of our Middle West. These tribes made war on each other much of the time. All of them probably lived by growing grains before they captured the wild horses of the plains. These hores were the offspring of thsoe that escaped from early Spanish exploreres. When they had horses, some of the tribes became wandereres. They lived by hunting the buffalo and by raiding their more peaceful neighbors.
When the first settlers came to America, the Indians were the only people here. Many of them had farms and tended their corn and tobacco. They taught the whites how to girdle trees and thus to cause these trees to die rapidly. They also taught the settlers how to tap sugar trees and to make maple sugar.
What are the Indian women called? The babies? The fighting men? Tell the story of Hiawatha's building his canoe.
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