Lakota Village Photo Taken 123 Years Ago

 Villa of Brule A Lakota tipi camp near Pine Ridge, in background; horses at White Clay Creek watering hole, in the foreground. 1891. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

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Alan: As a boy, my Dad -- born in 1912 -- was running through a woods in Rush, New York, when he entered a clearing where a Seneca Indian sat on a fallen log. After initial fright, the Seneca made clear he wanted Dad to procure tobacco for him.

Here is how George Washington treated the remarkably civilized Seneca (part of The Iroquois League of Nations) who occupied the part of upstate New York where I was born and raised.

General George Washington Orders "Complete Destruction" Of Iroquois Settlements

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/general-george-washington-orders.html

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More Photos Of Frontier Life
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/23/from-the-archive-frontier-life-in-the-west/2713/