{"id":17577,"date":"2016-10-26T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=17577"},"modified":"2016-10-26T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:02:47","slug":"dont-you-wish-the-census-had-pictures-of-our-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/dont-you-wish-the-census-had-pictures-of-our-ancestors.html","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t You Wish the Census Had Pictures of Our Ancestors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 1884 census did.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Red Cloud (1822-1909) was the most famous leader of the Oglala Lakota Sioux.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17579\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1026-2016-red-cloud.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1026-2016-red-cloud.png\" alt=\"Photo: Red Cloud, taken by Charles Milton Bell while Red Cloud was on a delegation in 1880\" width=\"404\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1026-2016-red-cloud.png 404w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1026-2016-red-cloud-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1026-2016-red-cloud-159x250.png 159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Red Cloud, taken by Charles Milton Bell while Red Cloud was on a delegation in 1880. Credit: Charles Milton Bell; U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In about 1884 Red Cloud enumerated 289 men of his tribe, recording each one by their name and picture \u2013 a pictograph.<\/p>\n<p>See: Red Cloud\u2019s Census [1884]. 289 Dakota tribe members were enumerated.<br \/>\nFourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1882-83. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1885.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/documents\/image\/v2:0FD2A62D41CEB699@GB3DOC-10EA7727CE07E758@-10E5F4D7B9CC2C50@297?search_terms=red%7Ccloud%2527s%7Ccensus\">http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/documents\/image\/v2:0FD2A62D41CEB699@GB3DOC-10EA7727CE07E758@-10E5F4D7B9CC2C50@297?search_terms=red%7Ccloud%2527s%7Ccensus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Red Cloud drew the name of each of the 289 persons named. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17583\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/documents\/image\/v2:0FD2A62D41CEB699@GB3DOC-111C9591EF89C8D8@-110B6A8DD3CA6BE8@517?\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-spotted-horse.png\" alt=\"A pictograph of the Sioux warrior Spotted Horse, Smithsonian Institution, 1893\" width=\"531\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-spotted-horse.png 531w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-spotted-horse-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-spotted-horse-400x221.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank.com, Personal Names. Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1888-\u201989. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1893. Pages 457-458.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>See the original page here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/documents\/image\/v2:0FD2A62D41CEB699@GB3DOC-111C9591EF89C8D8@-110B6A8DD3CA6BE8@517\">http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/documents\/image\/v2:0FD2A62D41CEB699@GB3DOC-111C9591EF89C8D8@-110B6A8DD3CA6BE8@517<\/a>?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17585\" style=\"width: 617px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/documents\/image\/v2:0FD2A62D41CEB699@GB3DOC-111C9591EF89C8D8@-110B6A93F6981EB8@518?\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17585\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-red-clouds-census.png\" alt=\"Pictographs of Sioux warriors from Red Cloud's 1884 census, Smithsonian Institution, 1893\" width=\"617\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-red-clouds-census.png 617w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-red-clouds-census-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-red-clouds-census-315x250.png 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank.com, Personal Names. Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1888-\u201989. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1893. Pages 457-458.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>See the original page here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/documents\/image\/v2:0FD2A62D41CEB699@GB3DOC-111C9591EF89C8D8@-110B6A93F6981EB8@518\">http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/documents\/image\/v2:0FD2A62D41CEB699@GB3DOC-111C9591EF89C8D8@-110B6A93F6981EB8@518<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Notice that there is a line from the person\u2019s head to an image drawn above the figure. That image is the person\u2019s name. In these examples: Spotted Horse; Tree-in-the-Face; and two men named Leaves.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this 1884 census, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/\">GenealogyBank.com<\/a> has obituaries and articles about thousands of Sioux.<\/p>\n<p>For example, here is the obituary of Verdell A. Red Cloud, Sr. (1940-2008) who was buried at the Red Cloud Family Cemetery in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17589\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/obituaries\/obit\/1428FE928F33C8E0-1428FE928F33C8E0\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17589\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rapid-city-journal-newspaper-1218-2008-verdell-red-cloud-obituary.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Verdell Red Cloud, Rapid City Journal newspaper article 18 December 2008\" width=\"597\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rapid-city-journal-newspaper-1218-2008-verdell-red-cloud-obituary.png 597w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rapid-city-journal-newspaper-1218-2008-verdell-red-cloud-obituary-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rapid-city-journal-newspaper-1218-2008-verdell-red-cloud-obituary-266x250.png 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank.com, Rapid City Journal (Rapid City, South Dakota), 18 December 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can rely on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/\">GenealogyBank.com<\/a> for the stories of your ancestors\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/native-american-genealogy-research-tips-resources.html\">Native American Genealogy: Research Tips &amp; Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/hannah-dexter-the-last-natick-indian.html\">Hannah Dexter: The Last Natick Indian?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/1870-newspaper-report-3-arikara-indians-killed-by-sioux-war-party.html\">1870 Newspaper Report: 3 Arikara Indians Killed by Sioux War Party<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about Oglala Lakota Chief Red Cloud\u2019s 1884 census of 289 men of his tribe, recording each one by their name and picture \u2013 a pictograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12247],"tags":[12,12363,12361],"class_list":["post-17577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-native-american-history-genealogy","tag-genealogy","tag-native-american-history-genealogy","tag-red-cloud"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/illustration-1026-2016-featured-graphic-spotted-skunk.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}