[Red Cloud, Oglala division of Lakota, Sioux, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right wearing suit]

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1 photographic print on cabinet card.

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The archive identifies this 1891 cabinet card portrait as Red Cloud of the Oglala division. The Oglala are one of the seven divisions of the Lakota, the westernmost of the three Sioux groupings.

The photograph was made by Trager and Kuhn. By 1891, the landscape of Lakota territory had been drastically reshaped. The Great Sioux Reservation guaranteed by the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty had been broken up by act of Congress two years earlier, in 1889. That legislation created Pine Ridge and several smaller reservations in present-day South Dakota while opening the remainder to settlement.

The cabinet card format, a photographic print mounted on stiff card stock, was widely used for portraits during this period.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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