Horse's Ghost at the fair, Poplar, Mont. (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Horse's Ghost at the fair, Poplar, Mont.
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Poplar, Mont.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.14206
Call Number: LC-B2- 2821-19
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brettbigb added this photo to their favorites. (35 months ago)
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (35 months ago | reply)
Sioux Chief
Source:
books.google.com/books?id=fp4Vn1TJJ_gC&pg =PT74&lp... Ghost" Montana&f=false
Russel Daniels` added this photo to their favorites. (20 months ago)
artolog (12 months ago | reply)
Competed in AAA National Reliability Tour in June, 1913, and was living in Ft. Peck Reservation, Montana.
books.google.com/books?id=6_JYAAAAYAAJ&pg =RA9-PA59&am...
He is pictured in several books about the Fort Peck reservation.
Poplar, Montana is the nominal capitol of the Reservation.
An Indian named Horse's Ghost, who could well be this man, is pictured in a group of Indians in traditional garb preparing to meet with Taft administration officials in November, 1911:
books.google.com/books?id=fdvMb5x05UMC&lp g=PA119&...
However, another publication (by the same author, no less) containing this photo identifies the top center man as "Horse Ghost". To me, that man looks more like the one in the Bain Collection photo.
books.google.com/books?id=Q2V_lUvSfX4C&lp g=PA28&o...
He is pictured in full Indian dress in this full length portrait from September, 1913, taken at Poplar:
mathers.indiana.edu/wanamaker/images/1962-08- 3633.jpg
artolog (12 months ago | reply)
OK, found it. This is Horse's Ghost standing in front of his prize winning exhibit in the Fall, 1912 Indian Fair on the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, MT. Here's an account from the following August in the Tacoma Timeschroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/19 13-08-25/ed-...
which includes a similar picture, and is well worth reading for its account of changes in reservation life and the casual, pervasive racism of the era:
"PALE FACES WILL HAVE TO GO SOME TO BEAT SIOUX FARMER NEIGHBORS
GREAT FALLS, Mont.,Aug.21.
The last "wild" Indians"have been tamed. The fierce Sioux tribe which - nearly half a century ago, massacred General Custer and his brave band of cavalrymen in the valley of the Little Big Horn, has changed into a peaceful community of farmers. And Uncle Sam is about to add the finishing touch to their new civilization.
There are but 3,000 left of the nomadic Sioux bands that long terrified the Northwest. In recent years they have been confined on the Fort Peck reservation, in northern Montana, far from the scene of their last big battle, where they mustered 20,000 or more.
Here, as the wards of the government, they have had the limited freedom of 2,068,000 acres —one square mile for eaoh redskin. But now their range is to be further restricted to make room for the invading hordes of white settlers, hungry for land. The Indians have been allotted 723,693 acres, making farms averaging 240 acres apiece, and the remaining 1,345,000 acres have been carved into 8,406 white man's farms to be drawn by lot, beginning September 1.
Picture with caption: "Horse's Ghost, with part of his prize-winning exhibit at the Indian fair. Above, Tiger Horse, old Sioux who fought against Custer. Below, Old Buffalo Grass, another enemy of Custer's, now a Christian."
The Indians are prepared for the change. That is the remarkable phase of this business. They themselves have made easy the last transition stage from barbarism to agricultural competition with their paleface enemies.
Two years ago Louis Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great Northern railroad, picked a few Indians from the reservation and sent them to the New York land show. He wanted them to see what the white man was doing with land like theirs. Chief Crazy Bull was one of them.
They saw and were converted. When Crazy Bull and his braves returned they preached farming, and began to practice it, too. It takes scientific methods to raise good crops in this semi-arid land, where the soil Is fertile, but rainfall is a gamble. Fields are usually allowed to "lie fallow" every other year, and the farmer must plow deep, treasure every bit of moisture and use wisdom in selecting and rotating crops. Wise cultivation, however, brings big rewards. What those amateur Indian farmers did was shown last October at Poplar, Mont., in the first "Indian fair" ever held. Crazy Bull and some of the Indian school boys and girls made especially good records. They produced 20 to 25 bushels of wheat to the acre,-60 to 85 bushels of oats and 18 to 26 bushels of flax. This year they have twice as much land under cultivation, and the average production is running just as high."