18th Annual Plains Indian Museum Pow Wow - Poster. - 1999
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Description
Poster advertising the pow wow, held in the Robbie Pow Wow Garden of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
Historical note:
Charcoal (Si'-okskitsis) was renowned for his strength and cunning as a warrior. He killed his wife's lover, fired at an Indian agent and a NWMP, and later killed a NWMP sergeant and was executed in 1897.Comments on four letters containing new information regarding a group of five Inuit who travelled to England from Labrador in the 18th century. The four letters discussed are included.
Excerpt from The Great Lone Land, originally published in 1873.