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2 CDVs, each approx. 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. on cardstock mount. Both images were originally produced by Joel Whitney of St. Paul, Minnesota, although only one bears his studio imprint. Subjects include: Nah Gun E Gah Bo, or Standing Forward, Chief of Rabbit Lake Band of Chippewas. The subject is incorrectly identified in pencil as Wah Bo Jeeg, or White Fisher (toning to print, mount and left edge of print trimmed, chipping to edges). -- Cut Nose. With imprint of Whitney, St. Paul, MN, 1862, on mount recto and imprint on mount verso, "Sold by Lawrence & Houseworth, Opticians, San Francisco" (some soiling and scattered spotting to print). -- Together, 2 CDVs of Sioux involved in the 1862 Dakota Uprising in Minnesota.

The new state of Minnesota was home to thousands of Native Americans in 1862, many of whom were disenchanted with the government's promise for annuities. In August of that year, a number of the Dakota were starving; on the 18th, Indians at the Lower Agency attacked the white settlers there. Over the next few weeks hundreds of whites were killed, until the uprising was finally put down by Federal troops under the command of Henry Sibley. Whitney photographed a number of the Native American principals involved with the uprising. Cut Nose, for one, was charged with the murder of 18 women and children and five men, and admitted to the brutal murder of several settlers in response to the US Army reneging on its treaty obligations. He was hanged with 37 other Dakota on 26 December 1862.