Summary

INAUGURATING THE NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN MEMORIAL

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Title: INAUGURATING THE NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN MEMORIAL
File Number: VTM-3CV Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 1913
Description: B W 1913 Silent film footage of American Indians, in two parts. The first section documents a series of formal ceremonies in which government officials supervise as Indian chiefs sign a declaration of allegiance to the United States government and participate in a flag-raising. It's rather dry and repetitive, but there are brief images of President Taft, and many Indian figures of the 1910's are identified by name (see text below). The second section is documentary raw footage, apparently showing the activities of an Indian tribe in a village in winter see below for fuller description. Good crisp cinematography throughout. 00:14:00:00 B W 1913 [FIRST SECTION. Various formal ceremonies. Complete text follows.] "INAUGURATING THE NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN MEMORIAL. February 22, 1913. Fort Wadsworth Harbor of New York inaugurating the National American Indian Memorial...Major General Thomas H. Barry...32 Indian Chiefs led by Two Moons, leader of the Cheyennes in the Custer battle...The President (Taft) and his Cabinet...Mr. Rodman Wanamaker and Dr Joseph Kossuth Dixon...Chief Wooden Leg of the Northern Cheyenne...THE RODMAN WANAMAKER EXPEDITION OF CITIZENSHIP TO THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN: Carrying the Flag and a Message of Hope to a Vanishing Race...Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota: Oglala Sioux...US cavalry troops...Henry Roe Cloud, Winnebago Indian...The Rodman Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the North American Indian: Carrying the Flag and a Message of Hope to a Vanishing Race....Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota: Sioux...Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, Brule and Yanktonai Sioux...Niagara, New York: Tuscarora...Tonawanda Reservation, New York: Tonawanda, Seneca Nation...Cattaraugus Reservation, Salamanca, New York: Cattaraugus - Seneca, Cayuga and Onondaga Nations...Alleghany Reservation, Shongo, New York: Alleghany Seneca Nation...Onondaga Reservation, Syracuse, New York: Onondaga and Oneida Nations...Mohawk Reservation, St Regis, New York: Mohawk - Iroquois Nation...Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico: Lepan, Mescalero and Geronimo Apaches...Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico...Sichomovi, First Mesa, Arizona: Hopi...Colorado River Reservation, Arizona: Mohave...San Carlos Reservation, Arizona: San Carlos and White Mountain Apaches...Mountain Chief pledging loyalty of the Blackfeet, Piegans and Bloods...Chiefs of the St Regis tribe adopt Dr Dixon into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation Iroquois Confederacy..." 00:44:23:00 B W 1913 [SECOND SECTION. Raw footage, no titles or information. Description follows]. Group of American Indians in feather headdresses perform a dance ritual in grassy field, teepee in BG four men in uniform pose for camera, train station an early mechanized snow-plow Indians erect teepees in snowy landscape various scenes of cattle-slaughtering in a snowy pen: men cut up carcass with knives one man clubs tethered steer with axe, another man cuts its throat
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