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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 01051
Title: Josephine Gates Kelly, granddaughter of Yanktonian Chief Two Bears, Fort Yates (N.D.)
Date: 1920
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [Negative-written in pencil on emulsion side] Josephine Kelly 1/2 dozen cabinet cards double daughter. [history] Josephine Gates Kelly was born in 1888 or 1889. She became chairwoman of the Standing Rock Business Council in 1948 serving consecutive one-year terms until 1951. Her father was Frank Gates and her mother was Nellie Two Bears, daughter of chief Two Bears. She was raised at Standing Rock until the age of 12. She attended Carlisle Indian School from 1902 to 1909. She was the first woman from Standing Rock to finish at Carlisle. She was elected to the tribal council in 1940 and elected Chairperson to yearly terms in 1946–1947–1948. In 1940, she hitchhiked to Washington D.C. with another woman to protest the Indian Reorganization Act. Kelly and F. David Blackhoop, Secretary for the Tribe, traveled to Washington D.C. to oppose the consolidation of the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Agencies, proposed by the Indian Bureau in 1951.6 She spoke before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington, D.C. on behalf of U.S. Women’s Day with the coming of the Freedom Train. She died October 23, 1976. [Negative-written in pencil on emulsion side] Josephine Kelly 1/2 dozen cabinet cards double daughter. [history] Josephine Gates Kelly was born in 1888 or 1889. She became chairwoman of the Standing Rock Business Council in 1948 serving consecutive one-year terms until 1951. Her father was Frank Gates and her mother was Nellie Two Bears, daughter of chief Two Bears. She was raised at Standing Rock until the age of 12. She attended Carlisle Indian School from 1902 to 1909. She was the first woman from Standing Rock to finish at Carlisle. She was elected to the tribal council in 1940 and elected Chairperson to yearly terms in 1946–1947–1948. In 1940, she hitchhiked to Washington D.C. with another woman to protest the Indian Reorganization Act. Kelly and F. David Blackhoop, Secretary for the Tribe, traveled to Washington D.C. to oppose the consolidation of the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Agencies, proposed by the Indian Bureau in 1951.6 She spoke before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington, D.C. on behalf of U.S. Women’s Day with the coming of the Freedom Train. She died October 23, 1976.
Summary: Head and shoulders vignetted studio portrait of the granddaughter of Yanktonian Chief Two Bears, member of the Tribal Council. Born: January 24, 1888 - Died: October 23, 1976. She is wearing an embroidered velvet top with a high necked blouse and a locket with initials JMG on a chain around her neck. She has a wide brimmed straw hat decorated with silk and jeweled flowers and feathers on her head.
Red ID: PH_I_154203 Image ID: 111991 Image Notes: 1952-01051-negative

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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