Oklahoma: Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)

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Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Deaconess Harriet M. Bedell photographs, image #, NMAI.AC.037; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: The photographs in Series 1: Oklahoma, Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne), were taken between 1906 and 1916 while Bedell worked on the Whirlwind mission in Blaine County, Oklahoma. There, she worked as a missionary-teacher among the Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne) alongside Deacon Oakerhater (Cheyenne). Bedell herself appears in many of the photographs, and it is unknown who the photographer is in those cases. A number are photographic postcards, some by Chaufty Studio. The photographs depict the Whirlind Mission school, which opened in 1897 and operated as a day school for Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne) children until 1917 under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They also depict Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne) leaders and community members, posed in groups, and going about their daily lives.; Catalog numbers: P14913-P14941, P15047-P15050.

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NMAI.AC.037

NMAIA

Deaconess Harriet M. Bedell photographs

Creator

Bedell, Harriet M., 1875-1965

Summary

Photographs in this collection include indoor and outdoor portraits, domestic scenes and landscape photographs made among Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne), Gwich'in (Kutchin), and Seminole communities. These were taken and collected by Deaconess M. Bedell during her work as a missionary between 1907-1939.