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Planning a raid

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Cree Erik Loyer
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1. Planning a raid
2. Going to camp - Apsaroke
3. Passing the cliff - Apsaroke
4. Serrano woman of Tejon The Serranos (Spanish, "mountaineers"), a Shoshonean branch comprising numerous local groups, occupied San Bernardino valley, San Bernardino mountains north of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, a portion of Mojave desert north of that range and east of Mojave river, and Tehachapi mountains. This last group, who lived principally on El Paso and Tejon creeks, were the Kitanemuk. In 1853 most of the resident Indians, including not only various Shoshoneans but many Yokuts, were taken to Tule river reservation. Tejon rancheria remains, however, a settlement of various Shoshoneans, but predominantly Kitanemuk
5. North pueblo at Taos
6. A Chipewyan tipi among the aspens The Chipewyan are one of several Athapascan groups occupying the territory between the Hudson bay and the Rocky mountains, from about the fifty-seventh parallel to the Arctic circle. Much of this area is barren, but the streams that feed and drain the innumerable lakes are bordered by thick groves of the slender, white boles of aspens, whose pleasant glades are favored by camps of fishermen and berrypickers. The Chipewyan dwelling, formerly made of the skins of caribou, on which animal these people principally depended for food, clothing, and shelter, was one of the few points in which their culture resembled that of the plains Indians. Their distinctive garment was a leather or fur coat with skirts cut to a point before and behind, a feature to which the appellation Wichipwayaniwuk ("they pointed fur people"), the Cree original of Chipewyan, alluded.
7. A Cree canoe on Lac Les Isles The Western Woods Cree, Bush Cree, Swampy Cree, or Maskegon, as they are variously known, are scattered in numerous bands through the wooded country north of the prairies between Hudson bay and the Peace river drainage. Other members of this large family inhabit the plains in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and the country from Lake Winnipeg to Lakes Mistassini and Nitchequon in the Province of Quebec. They are members of the great Algonquian stock, and are closely related to the Chippewa. Lac les Isles, locally known as Big Island lake, is in west-central Saskatchewan, near the Alberta border. The canoe is a well-made craft of birch-bark.
8. A Cree girl
9. Moose hunter - Cree
10. Cree tipis
11. Moss for the baby-bags - Cree
12. A Cree
13. A Cree woman
14. A Cree camp at Lac les Isles
15. On Nespilim creek
16. Calling a moose - Cree
17. A Cree
18. Cree fishing camp
19. Picking blueberries - Cree
20. Cree tipis
21. Isqe-sis ("Woman Small") and chile - Cree
22. Cree boatwomen
23. A Cree camp
24. Landing - Cree
25. Birchbark baskets - Cree
26. Lac les Isles - Cree
27. A Cree girl
28. A Cree canoe
29. Frame of the sponsor's tipi, Cree sun-dance
30. Cree woman with fur robe
Dakota Erik Loyer
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Ogalala Erik Loyer
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1. Ogalala war-party Here is depicted a group of Sioux warriors as they appeared in the days of intertribal warfare, carefully making their way down a hillside in the vicinity of the enemy's camp. Many hold in their hands, instead of weapons, mere sticks adorned with eagle-feathers or scalps - the so-called coup-sticks - desiring to win honor by striking a harmless blow therewith as well as to inflict injury with arrow and bullet.
2. Jack Red Cloud
3. Slow Bull - Ogalala
4. Hukalowapi ceremony
5. Prayer to the Mystery
6. Fast Elk
7. Ogalala woman
8. In the land of the Sioux
9. Ogalala girls
10. Planning a raid
11. Red Cloud - Ogalala
12. Crazy Thunder - Ogalala
13. American Horse - Ogalala
14. Calico - Ogalala
15. Shield - Ogalala
16. Stands First - Ogalala
17. Good Lance - Ogalala
18. Iron Plume - Ogalala
19. Struck By Crow - Ogalala
20. Ogalala child
21. Big Road's twin daughters - Ogalala
22. No Flesh - Ogalala
23. Blue Horse - Ogalala
24. Returned Scout - Ogalala
25. Good Day Woman - Ogalala
26. He Crow - Ogalala
27. Kills in Timber - Ogalala
28. Standing Bear - Ogalala
29. Elk Boy - Ogalala
30. His Fights - Ogalala
31. Eagle Elk - Ogalala
32. Fast Thunder - Ogalala
33. Red Hawk - Ogalala
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Three Erik Loyer
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1. Medicine-man
2. Ogalala war-party Here is depicted a group of Sioux warriors as they appeared in the days of intertribal warfare, carefully making their way down a hillside in the vicinity of the enemy's camp. Many hold in their hands, instead of weapons, mere sticks adorned with eagle-feathers or scalps - the so-called coup-sticks - desiring to win honor by striking a harmless blow therewith as well as to inflict injury with arrow and bullet.
3. Two Strike
4. Sioux chiefs
5. Oasis in the Bad Lands
6. Jack Red Cloud
7. Hollow Horn Bear
8. Sun dancer "As they dance, the performers never leave the spot on which they stand, the movement consisting in a slight upward spring from the toes and ball of the foot; legs and body are rigid. Always the right palm is extended to the yellow glaring sun, and their eyes are fixed on its lower rim. The dancer concentrates his mind, his very self, upon the one thing that he desires, whether it be the acquirement of powerful medicine or only success in the next conflict with the enemy." - Volume III, pages 95-96.
9. Slow Bull - Ogalala
10. Brule war-party
11. Gray day in the Bad Lands
12. High Hawk The subject is shown in all the finery of a warrior dressed for a gala occasion - scalp-shirt, leggings, moccasins, and pipe-bag, all embroidered with porcupine-quills; eagle-feather war bonnet, and stone-headed war-club from the handle of which dangles a scalp. High Hawk is prominent among the Brules mainly because he is now their leading historical authority, being much in demand to determine the dates of events important to his fellow tribesmen. His calendar, or "winter-count," is explained, and in part reproduced, in Volume III, pages 159-182.
13. Prairie chief
14. Little Hawk
15. Hukalowapi ceremony
16. Prayer to the Mystery
17. Fast Elk
18. Sioux camp
19. Ogalala woman
20. In the land of the Sioux
21. Ogalala girls
22. Sioux girl
23. Planning a raid
24. Morning attack
25. Heavy load - Sioux
26. Black Eagle - Assiniboin
27. Mosquito Hawk - Assiniboin
28. Red Cloud - Ogalala
29. Crazy Thunder - Ogalala
30. Wood gatherer - Sioux
31. Winter camp - Sioux
32. Assiniboin camp
33. American Horse - Ogalala
34. Invocation - Sioux Scattered throughout the Indian country are found spots that are virtually shrines. These are often boulders or other rocks which through some chance have been invested with mythic significance, and to them priest and war-leaders repair to invoke the aid of the supernatural powers. The half-buried bowlder on which the suppliant stands is accredited with the power of revealing to the warrior the foreordained result of his projected raid. Its surface bears what the Indians call the imprint of human feet, and it is owing to this peculiarity that it became a shrine. About it the soil is almost completely worn away by the generations of suppliants who have journeyed hither for divine revelation
35. Mountain-sheep hunter - Sioux
36. In the Bad Lands