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Description found in Archives
Title
Studio portrait of Dakota (Sioux) woman [possibly the wife of Sitting Eagle, last Dakota Peace Chief of Turtle Mountain].
Online (2)
Arrangement structure
Item (linked) part of
Date(s)
1909
Place
Man.
Place of creation
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent
1 photograph
Positive - paper - silver
Positive - paper - silver
Conditions of access
Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Nil
Nil
Graphic (photo)
Copy negative PA-029555
Copy negative PA-029555
90: Open
Item no. (creator)
20957
Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Box
02696
02696
90: Open
Other accession no.
1966-094 NPC
Terms of use
Credit: Canada. Patent and Copyright Office / Library and Archives Canada / PA-029555
Restrictions on use: Nil
Copyright: Expired
Finding aid no.
Additional name(s)
Photographer: Winnipeg Photo Company.
Additional information
The woman's family is the subject of current research by Boissevain & Morton Regional Library.
At least one person, now 90, recalls meeting her and her husband, who died in 1944.
In 1909, her reserve, No. 60 Turtle Mountain, was being dismantled by the Federal government.
Sitting Eagle and his grandfather He'Dami'Mani [Rattles as he Walks] were the only households to refuse to sign the dismantling and settlement in 1910.
Sitting Eagle represented the Dakota Sioux to a multi-national council including Dakota, Assiniboine, Hidatsa, Mandan, Cree, Ojibway and Saulteaux.
Mrs. Sitting Eagle may have occupied a similar position with respect to women, thus being possibly the highest ranking Dakota woman in Canada at this time.
At least one person, now 90, recalls meeting her and her husband, who died in 1944.
In 1909, her reserve, No. 60 Turtle Mountain, was being dismantled by the Federal government.
Sitting Eagle and his grandfather He'Dami'Mani [Rattles as he Walks] were the only households to refuse to sign the dismantling and settlement in 1910.
Sitting Eagle represented the Dakota Sioux to a multi-national council including Dakota, Assiniboine, Hidatsa, Mandan, Cree, Ojibway and Saulteaux.
Mrs. Sitting Eagle may have occupied a similar position with respect to women, thus being possibly the highest ranking Dakota woman in Canada at this time.
Series title
20957
Exhibitions note
Aboriginal Portraits; Ed Tompkins, Jeffrey Thomas; National Archives: 1996.06.18-1996.11
Signatures and inscriptions
A Sioux squaw
Source
Government
Other system control no.
MIKAN no.
3258922
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