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Buffalo Dance is an 1894 black-and-white silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. Filmed on a single reel, using standard 35 mm gauge, it has a 16-second runtime. The film, with English intertitles, was shot in Edison's Black Maria studio at the same time as Sioux Ghost Dance. [1]
According to Edison film historian C. Musser, this film and others shot on the same day (see also Sioux ghost dance) featured Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and constitutes the American Indian's first appearance before a motion picture camera. Filmed September 24, 1894, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
The Ghost Shirt is a shirt that is believed to have been worn by a Sioux warrior killed in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.The shirt is plain cotton, has raven, owl, and eagle feathers hanging from the neck, and is pierced in several places with bullet holes.
Oriental Dance, starring Rosa; The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show', starring Joe Rastus, Denny Tolliver and Walter Wilkins; Rat Killing; Rats and Terrier No. 2; Rats and Terrier No. 3; Rats and Weasel; Ruth Dennis, starring Ruth St. Denis; Sandow, starring Eugen Sandow; Sheik Hadji Tahar, starring Sheik Hadji Tahar; Sioux Ghost Dance
Spotted Elk (Lakota: Uŋpȟáŋ Glešká) was born about 1826, the son of Lakota Sioux chief Lone Horn (Heh-won-ge-chat). His family belonged to the Miniconjou ("Planters by the River") subgroup of the Teton Lakota (Sioux). In 1877, Spotted Elk became the chief of his tribe upon his father's death at the age of 87.
Porcupine was born c. 1848 and was raised with the Sioux.His father was Sioux and his mother was Cheyenne.He married a Cheyenne and became a member of the Cheyenne tribe, [1] since it was the normal custom for a husband to live amongst the band of his wife's family, usually in a lodge adjacent to her parents. [2]
The Buffalo Dance, or Bison Dance, is an annual dance festival of many North American Plains Natives, including the Mandan, Sioux, Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Omaha, among others. The festival traditionally coincided with the return of the buffalo herds, and included a feast and a dance with a number of men wearing buffalo and other animal skins .