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Buffalo Bill Princess Chinquilla Introduction

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Buffalo Bill Princess Chinquilla Introduction
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3 3/4" by 4 1/2". Buffalo Bill Wild West New York City, May 3rd, 1902. This will serve to introduce Chinquilla, who is a full blooded Indian and a real Princess of the Cheyenne Nation. Princess Chinquilla is very ambitious, has a fine voice and deserves great credit for having gained mostly through her own efforts a good education. She has taken up the Dramatic profession as an occupation and she and her company do a splendid act; indeed, for an Indian, a very remarkable act. Princess Chinquilla is a lady honorable, deserving and capable and any favors shown her will be appreciated by. Very sincerely yours, Buffalo Bill Mary C. Newell, known as "Princess Chinquilla," was a vaudeville performer, tightwire walker, activist and lecturer on Native subjects. While there has been some historical question of Newell's true ethnic identity, she was generally lauded for co-founding the American Indian Club, a fraternal organization in New York for Native Americans, as well as her work with the American Indian Association which assisted Native peoples working in New York find housing.