Red Indian Chief - Circling Bear
Red Indian Chief - Circling Bear (1800-1854), sporting a fantastic feather headdress and long pipe. Chief Conquering Bear was a Brule Lakota leader who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851. Killed in 1854 when troops from Fort Laramie stormed his encampment to arrest a Sioux who had shot a calf belonging to the Mormons
Picture No
10924015
Media ID
45549720
Size
3489px x 5729px
(5.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1902
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Anthropological Brule Chieftain Circling Conquering Fantastic Lakota Laramie
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