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Nellie Jumping Eagle
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Photograph by the Gerhard Sisters, 1904. Gerhard Sisters "Aborginal Portraits". Missouri Historical Society Photographs and Prints Collections. NS 28098. Scan © 2003, Missouri Historical Society.
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A member of a group of twenty-eight men, women, and children from North and South Dakota, Nellie Jumping Eagle was likely a Lakota Sioux from the Pine Ridge Agency. Her tribal affiliation is difficult to determine precisely because Fair officials used the word “Sioux” to refer to a number of American Indian tribes that originated from the Northern Plains. Although once fierce warriors that caused much trouble for the U.S. Government, the Sioux were presented at the Fair as an “assimilated” people. They attended the Model Indian School and sold decorated buckskin, souvenir bow and arrow sets, beadwork, and peace pipes to visitors.
