Hoka Hey! - 150th anniversary of the battle of Little Big Horn

 Salvete Omnes,

Hoka Hey! - Lakota (Oglala, Hunkpapa, Miniconjoy, Brile etc), Cheynne and some Santee Dakota and Arapaho warriors defeated the 7th Cavalry regiment supported by the Arikara, Sioux and Crow scouts 150 years ago .

Rain in the Face

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Crazy Horse - blotahunka of the Oglala and Cheyennes 

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White Bull of the Miniconjou, who might have killed Custer

Siobhan Fallon (Yt channel on the Custer's Last Stand and Seventh Cavalry)  has two part video( one & two) on the White Bull's authobiography and Stanley Vestal's biography of this big man of the Miniconjou.

Wooden Leg - Cheyenne 

Little Wolf/Coyote & Morning Star/Dull Knife - Cheyennes 

Two Moons - Cheyenne

Comanche - Captain Keogh's horse 

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Ledger art - so called Maffet Ledger from the MET via Wiki Commons. 

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three Crow scouts at the battlefield cemetery all those years after - Pacem Aeternam

Valete

Sitting Bull - from Harper's Weekly 1876

 Salvete Omnes,

let us travel back to the Centennial Year or 1876 wheren this very unusual article with the most unusual art - Lakota Hunkpapa spiritual and political leader Sitting Bull and his drawings - appeared in the July 1876 issue of Harper's Weekly, right after the battles of Rosebud and Little Big Horn.

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perhaps the editors did no anticipate the US Army defeats and Lakota-Cheyenne successes during the initial stages of the so called Centennial Campaign.
That ship had sailed and the rest is history.

Valete

Harper's Weekly, ledger art & Sitting Bull

 Salvete Omnes, 

2nd post of this year. 

I hope your New Year is going all right, but let us bring peace to this world, the wars around Africa, Europe & Asia are in full wicked and evil bloom. 

ad rem, 

in 1876 Harper's Weekly published this article by David Hunter Strother under penname Porte Crayon  on a rather unusual subject - the native & hostile leader's own autobiography in pictures, aka the ledger art of famous Hunkpapa Lakota leader and medicine man/shaman & warrior Sitting Bull. 

In the years before 1876 Centennial Campaign Sitting Bull was in the forefront of the Lakota Sioux (Teton) opposition to the American conquest of the Lakota way of life, trespassing on their  hunting grounds (recently won from the Crows et al.)  and their pursuit of the bison herds etc. Eventually, Sitting Bull would be murdered by the Indian Policemen outside of  his cabin prior to the Wounded Knee Massacre during the so called Ghost Dance War in 1890.

The drawings were purchased by doctor  James P.Kimball from  a Yanktonai man at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory in 1870, who sent them to the Medical Director's Office, Department  of Dakota, and from there they were sent to the Army Medical Museum  in 1871. More on these drawings in the future posts. 
The ledger's drawings were copied from the colorful originals in order to be printed in the black and white magazine- 

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to be continued

Valete 

William de la Montagne Cary as illustrator et al.,

 Salvete Omnes,

and the last posting about the art of William M. Cary, this time appearing in publications of the era

  'The master of the strong heart: a story of Custer's last rally'  by Elbridge Streeter Brooks. (published in 1910)

and some more more

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and the painting - Buffalo Signals 

enjoy 

Valete