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Long Time Sleep - Indian (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • Richard Norton said:
    INDIAN TO DRIVE IN TOUR.

    Long Time Sleep, a wealthy Indian of the Glacier Park reservation, Montana, joined the American Automobile Association at a ...

    Source: New York Times; May 4, 1913, Sunday query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0DE4D8173FE6...

    I will transcribe the full text and post the article to Flickr later so they can sit side by side.
  • Quay Bell said:
    YAY!!!!!!!!!!~~Thank you bunches for this one!~
  • Michael Matischuk said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called People People People, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Art Siegel said:
    "He is of the Peigan Nation", according to the NYT article above. Piegan being a part of the Blackfoot or Blackfeet Nation in Montana.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piegan_Blackfeet
  • Bambi Slayer said:
    He was a native american of the Flathead Nation of Montana also known as Nick Lassa here is his wiki pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Lassa

British Library digitised image from page 890 of "A Pictorial History of America; embracing both the northern and southern portions of the New World ... Illustrated, etc"

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CO 1069-146-2

from The National Archives UK

  • William de Villiers said:
    Senior Chief Nderi of Nyeri, murdered on 23 October 1952, three days after the Emergency was proclaimed. He was "a tough and gallant old man" (The Sunday Times, 24 October 1952, p. 8).
  • PigaPicha1 said:
    Senior Chief Nderi accompanied by two Tribal Policemen had come across a crowd of several hundred at an oathing ceremony organised by Dedan Kimathi. When he ordered them to disperse, because by then oathing had been outlawed by the Government Authorities, they rounded on him and hacked him and his two policemen to death. ("Kenya, the Kikuyu and Mau Mau" by David Lovatt Smith ISBN 0-9544713-2-6 - paper back - 2005 - page 142.)
  • wangeciwangombe2 said:
    this man....my great-grandfather....
  • hemoanto said:
    This man my great Grand father is A Great hero. He deserves To Have A Statue Erected in One of the heros corner. in commemoration of the hero who straggles for sanity and deserves compensation for he died in the service of his country.
  • karanja WaMukami said:
    He is no hero. He is a Home Guard collaborator. Serving the interests of his white masters. I could pour more vitriol but am kind.