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Issuing rations at the Sisseton Indian Agency, Dakota
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| Title | Issuing rations at the Sisseton Indian Agency, Dakota |
| Date of Original | 1879 |
| Creator | Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931
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| Creator Role | Illustrator
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| Description | Collage of five scenes at the agency showing the process of distributing rations to the Indians. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | Indians of North America
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Interiors
Office workers
Indian agents
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| Subject (LCSH) | Indians of North America
Indians of North America - Food
Indians of North America - Subsistence activities
Indians of North America - Government relations
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| Organization Name | United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency
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| Location | Lake Traverse Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
South Dakota
United States
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| Decade | 1870-1879
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| Item Number | Folio 102.InS57.1 |
| Format of Original | Lithographs
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| Dimensions of Original | 40 x 26 cm. |
| Publisher of Original | Harper's Magazine Co.
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| Place of Publication | New York (N.Y.)
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| Transcription | "From sketches by W. P. Hooper" - With image caption.
Sketches at an Indian Agency. On page 273 our readers will find an interesting series of sketches made at the Sisseton Agency, Dakota, representing the method of drawing rations. Each Indian at the agency receives a ticket signed by the agent, on which is marked the number of his family. Armed with this ticket and provided with large sacks, he passes into the store-room, where he obtains the requisite amount of supplies - flour, sugar, tea, coffee, tobacco, salt, etc. A check from the store-keeper passes him into the cellar of the building, where he receives rations of pork. On the way home, after bagging their supplies, the noble Indian takes his ease on horseback, leaving his patient squaw to lug the provisions on her shoulders, or to share the burden with the much-abused dog. At most Indian agencies rations are issued weekly, but at Sisseton, where many of the Indians are engaged in farming, they are given out once a month only. Several Indians have each raised over three hundred bushels of wheat without the aid of white labor, and one gathered in last year a harvest of over five hundred bushels. This shows what the Indians are capable of doing under favorable conditions. At the Sisseton Agency one-third only of the supplies necessary for their support comes from the government. They obtain the remainder from their farms and by hunting and fishing." - Accompanying text in Harper's Weekly, p. 274. |
| Notes | Title from caption with image. |
| Contributor | Hooper, Will Phillip
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| Contributor Role | Illustrator |
| Bibliographic Reference | "Sketches at an Indian Agency." Harper's Weekly, April 5, 1879. p. 274. |
| Repository Institution | North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies
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| Repository Collection | Dakota Lithographs and Engravings Collection Folio 102
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| Collection Finding Aid | Consult: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/6673 |
| Credit Line | Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (Folio 102.InS57.1) |
| Rights Management | Image in public domain. |
| Language | eng; |
| Digital ID | rsL00068 |
| Original Source | Lithograph |
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