[Red Cloud and William Blackmore on an excursion on the Potomic River, June, 1872 [art original]. 1872.

Red Cloud, 1822-1909

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hv3dm8 (person)

Red Cloud was born close to the forks of the Platte River, near the modern-day city of North Platte, Nebraska. His mother, Walks as She Thinks, was an Oglala Lakota and his father, Lone Man, was a Brulé Lakota leader. They came from two of the seven major Lakota divisions. As was traditional among the matrilineal Lakota, in which the children belonged to the mother's clan and people, Red Cloud was mentored as a boy by his maternal uncle, Old Chief Smoke (1774–1864). Old Chief Smoke played a m...

Blackmore, William, d. 1878.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62w05rb (person)

Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hj479f (person)

A shadowy figure at best, the artist Antonio Zeno Shindler worked at the Smithsonian Institution from after the Civil War until the turn of the 20th century, specializing in ethnographic subjects. The visual documentation of Native American cultures became a focus of the Smithsonian Institution from within a few years of its founding in 1846. The original core of the collections consisted of a number of portraits of Indian delegates who visited Washington during the 1850...