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Thankfully this was handed back to these people after being in a Glasgow Museum for many years..I saw this shirt before it was sent back and now there is a replica on display.
Colonel William F Cody (Buffalo Bill) brought his Wild West Show to Dennistoun in October 1891. The show opened on the 16th of November, and closed on the 27th of February 1892. He was accompanied by Sioux Braves and sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The show played at the East End Exhibition Building off Duke Street for three months as part of the great East End Industrial Exhibition set up to raise funds for the People's Palace. The Ghost Shirt, worn by a Sioux Indian at the Battle of Wounded Knee, was sold by the Lakota interpreter of his show George C. Crager and displayed in Glasgow museums for over 100 years. It was finally returned home to the South Dakota museum in Pierre until the Lakota people have their own museum. The Ghost Shirt was seen for the last time in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery on July 25 1999.
Thankfully this was handed back to these people after being in a Glasgow Museum for many years..I saw this shirt before it was sent back and now there is a replica on display.
Colonel William F Cody (Buffalo Bill) brought his Wild West Show to Dennistoun in October 1891. The show opened on the 16th of November, and closed on the 27th of February 1892. He was accompanied by Sioux Braves and sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The show played at the East End Exhibition Building off Duke Street for three months as part of the great East End Industrial Exhibition set up to raise funds for the People's Palace. The Ghost Shirt, worn by a Sioux Indian at the Battle of Wounded Knee, was sold by the Lakota interpreter of his show George C. Crager and displayed in Glasgow museums for over 100 years. It was finally returned home to the South Dakota museum in Pierre until the Lakota people have their own museum. The Ghost Shirt was seen for the last time in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery on July 25 1999.
The "Battle of Wounded Knee" was a massacre of unarmed Miniconjou/Lakotah (Sioux). the "Ghost Dancers" had surrendered to the 7th Cavalry and were led to Wounded knee for holding.
Men, women, children all gunned down. Exact number unkown but is believed to be 300.
The "Brave" soldiers received the "Congressional Medal of Honor" for this "Brave Deed"
+39 wounded, 6 mortally. Which is a larger amount for post-Civil War indian engagements. Shows how deadly the combat was that artillery had to fire among the soldiers mixed in with the indians.
Better to be proactive than reactive. If the indians were not restless there would be no need for the soldiers to have been there.
+39 wounded, 6 mortally. Which is a larger amount for post-Civil War indian engagements. Shows how deadly the combat was that artillery had to fire among the soldiers mixed in with the indians.
Better to be proactive than reactive. If the indians were not restless there would be no need for the soldiers to have been there.
How restless would you be if all of a sudden Afghanistan Settlers came into your town and started claiming land there?
This was the home of the Lakotah and guaranteed to be a "Sovereign Nation" by the treaty of Laramie.
I deal with what actually happened during the era it happened rather than go on tangents into hypotheticals. You new to the History forum?
My error. I apologize. I spend too much time in the religious forums. I am new to the History forum.
The topic just hit home with me as my wife is considered part of the Lakotah although she is Northern Cheyenne.. We spend a lot of our time on "Pine Ridge" and "Standing Rock"
Returning to topic. The shirt is of high importance to my Wife's people. Wounded Knee is almost sacred ground to the Lakotah and Cheyenne. It is not that far in the past. There are great Grandchildren of the survivors still living on "Pine Ridge"
You are a good man. My apologizes if I sounded brusque.
No problem my friend.
I should have stuck to history instead of emotions.
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