The 29th annual Neihardt Spring Conference will be held at the John G. Neihardt State Historical Site in Bancroft on April 30th, 2011. Many of us have read Black Elk Speaks, the story of the life of the Oglala holy man told to Neihardt in 1931. Black Elk lived through and participated in many of the events spanning the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1990. He was a cousin to Crazy Horse and knew many Lakota leaders of those times.
This composite image Sitting Bull, Gall, White Bull, Rain in the Face is part of the Nebraska State Historical Society Collection in Nebraska Memories. Photographer John Alvin Anderson was commissioned as a civilian photographer for the U.S. Army to record life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota north of Valentine.
Shirts worn in the battle at Wounded Knee Nebraska State Historical Society Collection, 1890s. This photograph shows three animal hide shirts on display at the Sioux Indian Museum in Rapid City.
More photographs of Native Americans can be viewed in Nebraska Memories.
Visit Nebraska Memories to search for or browse through many more historical images digitized from photographs, negatives, postcards, maps, lantern slides, books and other materials.
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