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Collection Summary
Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 05013
Title: Mad Bear
Date: 1906
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [in red gouache negative emulsion] Chief Mad Bear, Sioux Copyrighted 1906 by F. B. Fiske
Summary: Head and shoulders, profile seated studio portrait of Mad Bear in a dark striped suit, and a dark tie with scarf tied around neck. [Bismarck Tribune Friday, March 24, 1911 p1] Wakpala (S.D.) March 23. Mad Bear, who except for John Grass is the last of the old generation of Sioux Indian chiefs, is dead. Mad Bear was the leader of the band that rescued the white family from the Santees, in 1868, near here. He gave his favorite saddle horse as a ransom for the white woman from the hostiles, and with his little band of friendlies escorted them to Fort Pierre and turned them over to the military. Mad Bear was recently disappointed that all efforts to induce congress to grant him and his band a medal for their conduct was unavailing. He left several head of cattle and horses when he died and over $1,000 in cash. He had two wives, according to an old Indian custom, but put one away and joined the Catholic Church shortly before he died. [Mad Bear-1836-23 Mar 1911]
Red ID: PH_I_154910 Image ID: 112728 Image Notes: 1952-05013-1

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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