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Happy Native American Heritage Month #ThrowbackThursday!

This week’s highlight celebrates Native American Heritage Month with a black and white photograph featuring two Sioux Indian women sitting by a fire outside a tipi. They are dressed in animal hide outfits, and the younger woman has a headband around her head. A pot is suspended over the fire, and a kettle rests on the ground near the fire. The older woman is poking at the fire with a stick. The photograph was taken at the Rosebud Reservation in the 1890’s by John Anderson.

This image is owned and published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. They digitized content from the John Nelson and the J. A. Anderson collection. John Nelson came to Nebraska with his parents at the age of seventeen from Sweden. His photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the twentieth century. John A. Anderson was born in Sweden in 1869. He came to Nebraska with his parents and settled in Cherry County. He worked as a civilian photographer for the army at Fort Niobrara (Nebraska) and later worked as a clerk at the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota) trading post.

See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!

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