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The Ghost dance by the Ogallala [sic] Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency ... Dakota / Frederic Remington, Pine Ridge, S. Dak. – Historic Print

The Ghost dance by the Ogallala [sic] Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency ... Dakota / Frederic Remington, Pine Ridge, S. Dak., 1890 — historic print
The Ghost dance by the Ogallala [sic] Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency ... Dakota / Frederic Remington, Pine Ridge, S. Dak., 1890. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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The Ghost dance by the Ogallala [sic] Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency ... Dakota / Frederic Remington, Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

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Frederic Remington's drawing shows the Ghost Dance as it was performed among the Oglala Lakota at Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota, and it was published in Harper's Weekly on December 6, 1890. Remington worked from sketches he made on the spot, so the scene carries the immediacy of a witnessed event rather than a studio reconstruction. The Ghost Dance was a spiritual movement that promised the return of the dead, the renewal of the land and the removal of white settlers, and it alarmed federal agents and settlers alike. Within weeks of this issue, tensions at Pine Ridge led to the killing of Sitting Bull and, later that month, to the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Created / published1890
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1890.Halftone photomechanical prints 1890.
NotesDrawn by Frederic Remington from sketches taken on the spot. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1890 Dec. 6, p. 960-961.
SubjectsIndians of North America--South Dakota--Dance--1890. Oglala Indians--Dance--1890. Ghost dance--South Dakota--1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,063 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110150

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