Oglala Homeland
by Lianne Schneider
Title
Oglala Homeland
Artist
Lianne Schneider
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art
Description
Digital painting based on a public domain image in the Library of Congress...Bone Necklace, council chief, Oglala Sioux. Original photograph by Herman Heyn in 1899 and the hand colored platinum prints were gifted to the LOC by David A. Rector.
This interpretation is digitally hand painted with an original background using the original as a reference source.
Oglala ('to scatter one's own') is the principal division of the Teton Sioux, one of seven Lakota tribes. Their early history evolved in complete obscurity; their modern history recounts incessant contests with other tribes and attacks on the whites. The first recorded notice of them is that of Lewis and Clark, who in 1806 found them living above the Brule Sioux on Missouri river, between Cheyenne and Bad Rivers, in the present South Dakota, numbering 150 or 200 men. In 1825 they inhabited both banks of Bad River from the Missouri to the Black Hills, and were then friendly with the whites and at peace with the Cheyenne, but enemies to all other tribes except those of their own nation. They were then estimated at 1,500 persons, of whom 300 were warriors.
Their general rendezvous was at the mouth of Bad River, where there was a trading establishment for their accommodation. In 1850 they roamed the plains between the north and south forks of Platte River and west of the Black Hills. In 1862 they occupied the country extending north east from Ft Laramie, at the mouth of Laramie river on North Platte river, including the Black Hills and the sources of Bad river and reaching to the fork of the Cheyenne, and ranged as far west as the head of Grand river.
The Black Hills were considered sacred by the Lakota, and they objected to mining. In 1868, the United States signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. Four years later gold was discovered there, and prospectors descended on the area generating further fighting but at last an agreement confirming the treaty of 1868 was concluded at Red Cloud agency, Neb., Sept. 26, 1876, which was signed on behalf of the Oglala by Red Cloud and other principal men of the tribe. Low-level conflicts continued particularly as some members of the tribe "ceded" the Black Hills to the United States and there was serious dispute as to who had the authority to do that and what chiefs had actually been present.
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is an Oglala Sioux Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge was established in 1889 in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border.
Pine Ridge is the site of several events that marked tragic milestones in the history between the Sioux of the area and the United States (U.S.) government and its citizens. Stronghold Table, a mesa in what is today the Oglala-administered portion of Badlands National Park, was the location of the last of the Ghost Dances. The U.S. authorities' attempt to repress this movement eventually led to the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890. A mixed band of Miniconjou Lakota and Hunkpapa Sioux, led by Chief Spotted Elk, sought sanctuary at Pine Ridge after fleeing the Standing Rock Agency, where Sitting Bull had been killed during efforts to arrest him. The families were intercepted by a heavily armed detachment of the Seventh Cavalry, which attacked them, killing many women and children as well as warriors. This was the last large engagement between U.S. forces and Native Americans and marked the end of the western frontier.
Copyright - Lianne Schneider 2012
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Lianne Schneider
Digital Designs and Liz, my deepest thanks to you both for featuring this image in your fabulous groups FAA PORTRAIT GALLERY and NATIVE AMERICAN PORTRAITS. I means a great deal to me.
Lianne Schneider
My most heartfelt thanks to Digital Designs for featuring this portrait in FAA PORTRAIT GALLERY. I'm more honored and thrilled than I can say.
Lianne Schneider
Thank you so much William and Sharon for featuring this work in your groups ART WITH FLAIR and SIGNATURE STYLE ART. It means a great deal to me and I'm very honored.
Terry Webb Harshman
Amazing work, Lianne! You're so very talented! I enjoyed reading your description on this piece, too. Really wonderful! F/V!
Lianne Schneider
My heartfelt thanks to each of you for your support and lovely comments - I treasure them all and hope I am able to return your gift with a visit to your work today if I haven't already. And a huge thank you to David and to Annie for featuring this work in their respective groups - TODAYS BEST ART and VISUAL VOICE. I'm so honored!
Lianne Schneider
I want to thank each one of you for your incredibly lovely and supportive comments. I treasure each one - and I hope I've returned the gift in kind with a visit to your work in recent days. If I haven't yet, I will very soon.