Charlotte Lloyd Walkup Photographs

File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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Scope and Contents

Photos taken by or given to Ms. Walkup in 1936-1937 when she was Charlotte Tuttle Westwood, attorney in the Solicitor's Office of the Interior Department, in connection with trips to Indian reservations in the Mid-West to assist in tribal organizations under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Photos are copies from originals. For negatives, see proof sheets in Box 2
1: Wounded Knee Cemetery
2: U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs Agency Office at Pine Ridge, South Dakota
3-4: Mr. Ben Reifel and Sioux Representative, Mr. Keller, at Pine Ridge I.R.A. meeting
5-9: July 4 celebration at Kyle, Pine Ridge
10: Meeting on an I.R.A. charter at the extreme northwest end of the Cheyenne River Reservation
11-12: Meeting at Thunder Butte (Cheyenne River). District meeting house being built by Indians from Resettlement funds
13: An I.R.A. meeting of Cheyennes at La Plante
14: Meeting at Red Scaffold School on Cheyenne River
15-17: Omaha people at a temporary road camp at the Winnebago Agency
18: Dr. Roe Cloud casting the first Winnebago vote on their I.R.A. constitution. Other Winnebago people watch
19: Men at time of Winnebago vote on I.R.A. constitution
20-21: Winnebago Agency home during I.R.A. meetings. Ms. Walkup present
22-23: Winnebago basket makers in front of Agency home
24-25: Ms. Walkup at Winnebago Agency
26 I.R.A. meeting at Winnebago Agency including Mr. Alfred, Farm Agent to Omahas; Superintendent Parker; Dr. Roe Cloud; Mrs. Merrich, Land Clerk; Frank Beaver, Chair, Winnebago Council; Felix Cohen; Ed Cline, former chair of Omaha Council; Lucy Cohen; "Dalken;" "Lillian;" Elwood Harlan, Chair of Omaha Council; Joe Penusha, Chair of Ponca Council; Isaac Redowl, Santee; Joe Jennings; David Frazer, Chair of Santee Council; and Mr. Brewer, Farm Agent of Niobara. Others unidentified
27: Santee Sioux at I.R.A. meeting in Nebraska
28: Ms. Walkup, Indian Chief Clark, and Superintendent Parker at Winnebago Agency
29: Winnebago people
30-31: Agency and school office at Pipestone Indian School, Minnesota
32: School children at the Pipestone Indian School
33-34: Sibley County, Minnesota
35-37: Unidentified buildings, possibly in Sibley County
38: U.S. Land Office, Chippewa Indian Headquarters and Forestry Bldg., Cass Lake, Minnesota
39-40: Mr. Munnell, author of the Consolidated Chippewa Constitution, and Mr. Murrell, interpreter at the Chippewa meeting on I.R.A. at Cass Lake
41: I.R.A. meeting with Chippewas at Bay Mills (tribal leaders and Superintendent Burns)
42: Herman Cameron, leader of Bay Mills Chippewas near St. Marie, Michigan, at grave of ancestors on reservation

Dates

1886-1985

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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