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Collection: 2019P162 - Leo D. Harris Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00054
Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with Tribal Chairman Arthur Mandan and keepers of the Water Buster sacred bundle Foolish Bear and Drags Wolf
Date: 1/27/1938
Creator: Harris & Ewing
Summary: Three Affiliated Tribes first tribal chairman, Arthur Mandan, explains the significance of why the Water Buster Bundle should be returned to our people to President Franklin Roosevelt while the tribal delegates, Foolish Bear and Drags Wolf, listen. This occurred in 1938. [Hope_Pioneer_Thu__Jan_27__1938_p02] Drags Wolf and Foolish Bear, aged members of the ancient water-buster clan of North Dakota’s Gros Ventre Indians, are shown being greeted by “The Great White Father,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom they visited on a trip which they hope will bring a merciful rain to end the long drouth in their parched country. The Indians were on their way to the Heye Foundation of the Museum of the American Indian where George G. Heye was to return to them a sacred bundle, a “medicine” they believe will make their lands fertile again. Since the loss of the bundle in 1907, their country is slowly turning into desert due to lack of rain. __[Library of Congress LC-DIG-hec-47369 https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016883789/ ] January 13, 1938 Photo by Harris & Ewing Glass Plate Negative. INDIANS VISIT GREAT WHITE FATHER. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, SEATED, RECEIVES DRAGS WOLF, LEFT, AND FOOLISH BEAR, RIGHT; WHILE ARTHUR MANDAN, CHIEF OF THE TRIBAL COUNCIL, RIGHT; INTERPRETS FOR THE INDIANS. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT WAS TO THANK THE GREAT WHITE FATHER FOR HIS HELP IN RESTORING THE 'SACRED BUNDLE' TO THE WATER BUSTER CLAN OF THE GROS VENTRE TRIBE OF NORTH DAKOTA. A TRIBAL RELIC WHOSE LOSS IN 1907 HAS BEEN FOLLOWED BY SUCH A PERIOD OF DROUGHT AS NONE AMONG THEM CAN REMEMBER. WITH THE RETURN OF THE BUNDLE THE INDIANS THINK THE DROUGHT WILL BE ABOUT OVER
Red ID: PH_I_149333 Image ID: 175637 Image Notes: 2019-P-162-00054

Collection: 2019P162 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Leo D. Harris Photo Collection
Date: 1925-circa 1960

Summary: Images of people and events on the Fort Berthold Reservation including dedication of the Four Bears Bridge, the Four Bears monument and the monument to the Fort Laramie Tribal Council of 1851, as well as images of the men who repatriated the Water Buster Bundle.

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