Stanley J. Morrow
Photographic images from the Red Cloud and nearby Spotted Tail agencies in northwestern Nebraska, taken just after the close of the Sioux War of 1876-77, give an ...
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What We Found
Flashback Friday: “I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians”
A labor shortage during World War I left western Nebraska potato farmers facing the loss of their crop. They brought in the Lakota (Sioux) as harvesters, ...
Back in Print – “Eyewitness at Wounded Knee”
NSHS RG2845-13-6 (at left).
Never before has the story of the Wounded Knee Massacre been so clearly and movingly presented. Three Nebraska State Historical Society ...
“I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians”
A labor shortage during World War I left western Nebraska potato farmers facing the loss of their crop. They brought in Lakota (Sioux) Indians as ...
Miles, Mules, and Men: The Forgotten Front of the Civil War
Note: the word Indian is used instead of Native American as it was the norm at the time.
Imagine your car. Now consider the amount of gas that it requires to keep it ...
Flashback Friday: From Our Special Correspondent, NSHS Press’s newest book
While many history textbook authors have erased humor from history, primary sources reveal that jokes and hardships together make up an important part of the past. Our ...
‘The Greatest Gathering of Indians Ever Assembled’ – the Black Hills Council of 1875
Red Dog's village southeast of Red Cloud Agency.
For a month in late summer 1875 the nation’s gaze was drawn to proceedings at the remote Red Cloud Agency ...
Real Nebraska Stories: From Our Special Correspondent – ‘The Greatest Gathering of Indians Ever Assembled’
Now that all of our book titles are available at Amazon Prime, we’re highlighting a book a day to let you know about all the great Real Nebraska Stories that we offer. ...
‘I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians’: Non-Indian and Lakota Racial Relationships in Box Butte County’s Potato Industry, 1917-1960
A labor shortage during World War I left western Nebraska potato farmers facing the loss of their crop. They brought in Lakota (Sioux) Indians as harvesters, beginning a ...
Native Americans along the Trails at Chimney Rock
While the land was unknown to emigrants during their travels on the trails across Nebraska, it had been home to several Indigenous tribes for thousands of years. They ...
Flashback Friday: The ‘Flagpole Affair” at Red Cloud Agency, 1874
On October 23, 1874, Lakota warriors entered Red Cloud Agency and chopped up the pole that agent John J. Saville planned to use to fly the American flag. ...
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