102. Picturesque World’s Fair – Medicine and Plenty Horse, Sioux Indian Chiefs

MEDICINE" AND " PLENTY HORSE," SIOUX INDIAN CHIEFS.- The typical Indian Village on the Plaisance was not so much of a novelty as a study for American visitors to the Fair. They had seen Indians enough, but they had never seen members of widely separate tribes grouped together and so affording opportunity for comparison. To foreigners all were interesting, as savage races from abroad were to us, but to the American the contrast was the curious thing. It was [...]

Native Americans, the 1893 World’s Fair, and Chicago As We Know It

The Red Man’s Greeting, 1494-1892 (C. H. Engle, 1893) from the collection of the Newberry Library. “Without native Americans, would we have Chicago as we know it?” asks Jesse Dukes in an interactive “Curious City” feature for WBEZ-Chicago. One part of this fascinating look at the histories of Native Americans and the settlers of Chicago is the story of Simon Pokagon, a prominent member of the Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi who spoke at the 1893 World’s [...]

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