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Princess Chinquillas Tipi Pine Ridge Indian Photo

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Princess Chinquillas Tipi Pine Ridge Indian Photo
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Photo is 3 1/4" by 3 1/2". 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. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota, with a small portion extending into Nebraska. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge was created by the Act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. 888. in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border. It consists of 3,468.85 sq mi of land area and is one of the largest reservations in the United States.