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Collection Summary
Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 00059
Title: Sister Odelia Simmons, Fort Yates (N.D.)
Date: 1888
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3540089/sister-odelia-v-church-of-st-andrew/] “Sister Odelia is a member of the Order of St. Benedict, a Roman Catholic order, the Mother House *Page 358 of which is located at St. Joseph, Minnesota. At the time she entered the order in 1904 she took several vows, one of which was a vow of poverty, whereby she promised not to have or hold any property, and that any money received by her was to be turned over to the order. In return the order promised to furnish maintenance for the sister during her lifetime” https://tinyurl.com/y8wdzgln
Summary: Three quarter length, full face portrait of Sister Odelia Simmons, teacher at St. Bernard Misson School, Fort Yates, Standing Rock Indian Reservation. She is a member of the Order of St. Benedict, with their mother house in St. Joseph (Minn.). Behind her is a shelf with books and newspapers. Plants are on the top of the shelf and a kerosene lamp is affixed to the wall.
Red ID: PH_I_15433 Image ID: 146819 Image Notes: 1952-00059

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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