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What's Left of Big Foot's Band - Wounded Knee Massacre Survivors
Photo known as "What's Left of Big Foot's Band" by John C. H. Grabill, January 1891, showing the surviving members of the people of Lakota Sioux Chief Spotted Elk (also known as Big Foot, l. 1826-1890) after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29...
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The Sioux who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter
The Sioux who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter is a legend of the Lakota Sioux about Chief Big Eagle who left his people to marry a woman of the enemy Crow nation but never forgot the duties owed to his own people. The story highlights the...
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Moundville
Moundville is an archaeological site and park in Hale County, Alabama, USA on the Black Warrior River enclosing a Native American site dated to c. 1100 - c. 1450 CE. The earthen mounds which give the site its modern name were built by an...
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Sioux Chief Spotted Tail (Eastman's Biography)
Spotted Tail (Sinte Galeska, l. 1823-1881) was a Brule Lakota Sioux chief best known for choosing diplomacy over military conflict in dealing with the US government's policy of expansion in the 19th century. Although he became a respected...
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Charles A. Eastman on Crazy Horse
Charles A. Eastman's biography of Crazy Horse (l. c. 1840-1877) is among the most significant sources on the great Sioux war chief, as Eastman drew on accounts of those who had known and fought alongside him in writing it. The work differs...
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Eastman's Biography of Red Cloud
Eastman's biography of Red Cloud (l. 1822-1909) is the first narrative of his Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1916), and it sets the tone for those that follow, including the pieces on Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, in explaining the motivation...
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Corpse of Lakota Chief Spotted Elk After Wounded Knee Massacre
The dead body of Lakota Sioux Chief Spotted Elk (also known as Big Foot, l. 1826-1890) lies in the snow after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890.
US National Archives and Records Administration.
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Chief Mountain Chief of the South Piegan Blackfeet
Chief Mountain Chief (Ninna-stako, l. c. 1848-1942), also known as Big Brave (Omach-katsi) and later as Frank Mountain Chief, warrior and leader of the South Piegan nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Chief Mountain Colorized photograph...
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The Skeletons of Herculaneum
Casts of skeletons discovered in the vaults on the beach of Herculaneum. Skeletons of approximately 300 people were uncovered huddled in the so-called boatsheds. The last inhabitants of Herculaneum had taken refuge in these barrel-vaulted...
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Brihadeeswara Temple- Thanjavur - Shiva Temple - Temples of India [TAMILNADU]
"Rajarajeswaram" redirects here. For the Shiva temple in Taliparamba, Kerala, see Rajarajeshwara Temple. Peruvudaiyaar Kovil Temple complex with Main Gopuram Peruvudaiyaar Kovil is located in Tamil Nadu Peruvudaiyaar KovilPeruvudaiyaar...