Painting : 2016.71.10

Title:

SHORT BULL, BRULE SIOUX

Artist:

Scheuerle, Joe (1873-1948)

Medium:

Watercolor/Gouache

Date:

1909

Source:

Nippert Collection of Joseph Scheuerle Portraits, donated by Alfred K., Jr. and Kathye H. Nippert

Object ID:

2016.71.10

Description:

Scheuerle wrote, Short Bull - Brule Sioux Medicine Man - Leader, with Kicking Bear, of the hostiles during the campaign 1890-91 around Pine Ridge and the Bad Lands - East of the Black Hills - Short Bull was a Medicine Man and a delegate sent to Nevada to interview the New Messiah" [here, Scheuerle is referring to Wovoka, the religious leader who had founded the Ghost Dance tradition]. Short Bull, "came back and spread the Messiah Craze amongst the eastern Indians, and the Sioux in particular, winding up on the Bad Lands, surrounded by the Military and concluded the last uprising of the Sioux in force, after the battles around Pine Ridge, at the Missouri, Wounded Knee and around Grand River, and the death of Sitting Bull at that place...I got a team [or horses] and drove 25 miles north of Pine Ridge to the White Clay Camp on the rim of the Bad Lands to get his picture."

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