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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0025
Item: 01306
Title: The 1883 Santee Normal Training School baseball team
Date: 1883
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-1307, and many score marks which have destroyed most of the writing, "1883", and "Santee Normal Training School".
Summary: Posed in front of a clapboard building with two shuttered windows are ten players of the 1883 baseball team of the Santee Normal Training School, Santee, Nebraska. The school was founded in 1870 by Congregational minister Reverend Alfred L. Riggs, and operated until 1936. The mission of the school was to provide training and education to the displaced people of the Santee Sioux tribe. __Research suggests a reason for this image to be part of the Ewald collection. The student list of 1885 includes many boys and girls came from the Fort Berthold Agency in Dakota Territory. Included are such names as Alfred Mandan (Sigh or Nihehte), Charles Burr (Goose's Voice), Willie Wilkinson, John Young (Bull Calf), Frank Pattinneaude, Ernest Hopkins (Citus or Thick), George Bassett, Otter Wolf (Otter Woman or Widapokis), and Miriam Wolf (Tsidadakis or Yellow Child).
Red ID: PH_I_146183 Image ID: 107343 Image Notes: 00086-01306

Collection: 00086 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Date: 1875-Circa 1960

Summary: Consists of prints and some copy negatives of several photographers on the Fort Berthold Reservation, primarily Gilbert L. Wilson, and also including Frances Densmore, Frank Fiske, Fred Olson, Sumner Matteson, and several unidentified photographers. Ewald wrote identification of many photographs in his collection based upon suggestions from the people of Fort Berthold. Images include celebrations and gatherings, dances, sweat lodges, Little Missouri camps, cradles, portraits, Buffalo Bird Woman, Wolf Chief, Goodbird, Indian crafts and skills, artifacts, wood gathering, gardening, food processing and cooking, earth lodges, bullboats, travois, and Indian cowboys.

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