1870\'s NATIVE AMERICAN LAKOTA SIOUX INDIAN CHIEF RED CLOUD STEREOVIEW PHOTO
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1870\'s NATIVE AMERICAN LAKOTA SIOUX INDIAN CHIEF RED CLOUD STEREOVIEW PHOTO:
$112.50
Very rare and original, 1870\'s Stereoview Portrait Photograph of the Native American Oglala Lakota Sioux Indian Leader Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta) taken at Washington, D.C. by photographer T. W. Smillie.
This very rare Stereoview Photograph measures approx. 7\" by 3 3/8\" and is mounted on its original, flat, light green colored card mount. photographer\'s card mount. The Photograph pictures the proud Warrior Red Cloud in full figure dressed in full, traditional regalia and holding a war drum in his left hand and wearing a horned headdress. The subject is identified in period manuscript on the reverse that reads simply \"Red Cloud\".
We have found only a single example of this Image in any library or museum collection and believe it to be exceptionally rare. It was taken during one of Red Cloud\'s trips to Washington, D.C.
Mahpiua Luta (Red Cloud) (1822 – December 10, 1909) was a very strong war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota. He led as a chief from 1868 to 1909. One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States Army faced, he led a successful campaign in 1866–1868 known as Red Cloud\'s War over control of the Powder River Country in northEastern Wyoming and southern Montana. After signing the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), he led his people in the important transition to reservation life. Some of his US opponents mistakenly thought of him as overall chief of the Sioux (Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota). The large tribe had several major divisions and was highly decentralized. Bands among the Oglala and other divisions operated independently, even though some individual leaders such as Red Cloud were renowned as warriors and highly respected as leaders. Red Cloud had no hereditary title of his own but emerged as a natural leader and spokesman of his people through the force of his own character and through bravery in battle. Determined to protect the Native Americans’ prime hunting grounds, Red Cloud in 1865 led the opposition of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho when the U.S. government began to build and fortify a road from Fort Laramie, in present Wyoming, by way of the Powder River to Montana. He intercepted the first contingents of army construction troops on the Bozeman Trail that summer, holding them prisoner for more than two weeks. Thereafter, he refused all offers to negotiate and relentlessly attacked workers along the route. The two-year harassment came to be known as Red Cloud’s War and did not end until the United States agreed to abandon all posts and to desist from any further effort to open the road. When the garrisons had finally been withdrawn and the forts burned, Red Cloud signed the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie (April 29, 1868), laid down his arms, and allowed himself to be settled on the Red Cloud Agency, in Nebraska.
Many of Red Cloud’s followers, however, including his own son, scorned his accommodation with the white man and left the agency to pursue the war. While he kept his pledge of peace, Red Cloud defended Native American culture and continued to criticize the policies of the federal government. In 1878 he and his people moved to Pine Ridge Agency and from there he made several trips to Washington, D.C., to publicize his views. He and his wife were baptized as Christians and took the names John and Mary a few years before his death in 1909.
This very rare and original, Native American Indian / Indian Wars Stereoview photo is in good to very good condition. The Photo itself is generally clean but is significantly toned / darkened. The Stereoview shows evidence of moisture damage and the mount is soft as a result. Please see the scans below for a good representation of the content and condition of this rare Portrait of Red Cloud.
A very rare and important, 1870\'s Stereoview Portrait Photograph of the Native American Oglala Lakota Sioux Indian Leader Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta) taken at Washington, D.C. by photographer T. W. Smillie and, with all faults, still a fantastic addition to any collection!!!
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1870\'s NATIVE AMERICAN LAKOTA SIOUX INDIAN CHIEF RED CLOUD STEREOVIEW PHOTO:
$112.50