Sioux history in pictures : the White Bull manuscript, 1781-1931.

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Sioux history in pictures : the White Bull manuscript, 1781-1931.

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The White Bull Manuscript was commissioned by Usher Burdick in 1931. In a black bound ledger, White Bull recorded the events of his life in his native Dakota language. The ledger contains writings and/or pictographs rendered in ink, lead pencil and colored crayon, with explanatory text in Dakota. Buffalo and bear hunts, horseraiding exploits, instances of "counting coup," and battles and skirmishes are among the subjects. White Bull also included a typical Teton winter count, or calendrical history. James Howard translated the manuscript in The Warrior Who Killed Custer. A related set of pictographs, also created by White Bull, can be found in the Walter Stanley Campbell papers at the University of Oklahoma. Campbell publishedWarpath: The True story of the fighting Sioux told in a biography of Chief White Bull.

14.75 x 10.5 in. (1 box)

University of North Dakota, Chester Fritz Library

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University of North Dakota, Chester Fritz Library

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Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection (Chester Fritz Library)

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Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957

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Schoolmate of Burt's at Merton College, Oxford. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122446108 Author. From the description of Jim Bridger : literary manuscript, circa 1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131917 ...

White Bull, Joseph, 1849-1947

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Chief Joseph White Bull (Pte-san-hunka) was born in April 1849 in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He was the son of MakesRoom, a Miniconjou chief, and Good Feather Woman. White Bull was a nephew of Sitting Bull. He was trained in the arts of warfare and hunting, and by adulthood played a major role in the protection of Teton land from settlement. By the time of the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, White Bull participated in nineteen battles, and was twenty seven years old. At this...