Charles Milton Bell
Ponca Delegation to Washington, D.C.

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Ponca Delegation to Washington, D.C.
DateNovember 14, 1877
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage (at open): 13 1/8 × 17 7/16 in. (33.3 × 44.3 cm)
Sheet (at open): 13 1/8 × 17 7/16 in. (33.3 × 44.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Endowment
Object number2020.131
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionLike Charles Bird King earlier, numerous photographers portrayed Native American delegations visiting Washington, D.C. Having been confined to a reservation in northern Nebraska which the U.S. government subsequently gave to the Sioux, the Poncas were forcibly marched in 1876 to less hospitable land in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). This delegation of Ponca chiefs petitioned for the return of their old lands but left Washington empty-handed. Two years later, Standing Bear (seated, third from left) was arrested for taking his son’s body back to Ponca burial grounds in Nebraska. His court case ultimately yielded an important victory for Native American civil rights.
ProvenanceVictor F. Germack and Lori Shepard Germack, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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