#yanktonai

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Oscar Howe (Native American, Yanktonai Dakota, 1915-1983) - Eagle Dancer (1953-1957)

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Bob Brave Bear -Hanged Nov 15, 1882

Bob Brave Bear, a Yanktonai, who was sentenced to death for murder in 1882. As early as 1874 he had been accused of murdering members of a mixed-blood Chippewa/Ojibwa family in Pembina County in North Dakota. He managed to flee from jail in late 1878. Some sources say he fled to Canada and joined Sitting Bull. If so, it is unclear when he came back because in 1879 he was said to had kill a settler at Standing Rock while stealing horses with a party of other Indians. Finally Brave Bear also murdered an ex-soldier named Johnson later that year. For that crime he was convicted and tried. Brave Bear was hanged on November 15, 1882.

Read more:  http://amertribes.proboards.com/thread/446/bob-brave-bear#ixzz664OU8X3r

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Portrait of Zitkala-Sa by Gertrude Kasebier, about 1898. Zitkala-Sa, aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938), exposed the hardships faced by students at Native American boarding schools by writing about her own experiences as a student and as a teacher. Zitkala-Sa also published a book of tribal folklore called Old Indian Legends and composed “The Sun Dance Opera” with composer William F. Hanson. In 1930, Zitkala-Sa founded the National Council of American Indians, the first trans-tribal Native American organization to lobby the government for citizenship and civil right for American Indians. She was president of the organization until her death. Zitkala-Sa was born Feb. 22, 1876.

[lyssahumana]

Yellow Horse--Yanktonai

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Oscar Howe (Native American, Yanktonai Dakota, 1915-1983) - The Council (1980s)

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Oscar Howe (Native American, Yanktonai Dakota, 1915-1983) - Dakota Medicine Man (1968)

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Oscar Howe (Native American, Yanktonai Dakota, 1915-1983) - Dakota Eagle Dancer (1962)

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The Black War Bonnet - Artist Herman Red Elk

The painted bison robe shown here was created by the Yanktonai Sioux artist Herman Red Elk. Red Elk was born in 1918 in Poplar, Montana, on the Ft. Peck Reservation. In 1960, Red Elk moved to Rapid City to recuperate from tuberculosis at the Sioux Sanatorium. As a patient he gained his first experience in the arts under the vocational training program at the sanatorium. He undertook further art training through a 1963 summer art workshop at Black Hills State College. Additionally, he studied under noted Yanktonai Sioux artist Oscar Howe at the University of South Dakota during the summers of 1964 and 1965. From 1963 to 1964, under a project sponsored by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board’s Sioux Indian Museum, Red Elk pursued research and practiced the methods and designs of traditional Lakota hide painting. In 1969, he accepted a position as the Museum Aide at the Sioux Indian Museum, where he would remain until shortly before his death in 1986. He said:

“I enjoy painting; trying to recapture and preserve the very early traditions and life of our Sioux of the plains, their religion, their ceremonies, and their many ways of expressing themselves in their various art media.”

The Black War Bonnet design that adorns this robe is cited by noted anthropologist John Ewers as being a pattern unique to Lakota and closely associated tribes. A typical Black War Bonnet design consists of nested concentric circles of pairs of isosceles triangles with their bases slightly apart and their tips pointing in opposite directions, all aligned with a central point. The rays seem to have perfect alignment but some are set slightly off, a design characteristic that creates a shimmering effect when viewed in full.

Read the complete post here: http://www.sdpb.org/blogs/images-of-the-past/the-black-war-bonnet-artist-herman-red-elk/