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Wards of a Nation, The

Reel Number: 221262-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1920

Country: USA

Location: South Dakota

TC Begins: 10:18:30

TC Ends: 10:25:47

Duration: 00:07:17

The Wards of a Nation CU Indian in head dress looking to right. Pan over large group of tents & cars, some wagons. Indians in blankets & suit coats parade past camera. Most men wearing hats. Some banners carried. Choir boys, men in church robes. Covered area of benches. 10:20:45 Pan over delegates from 100 churches, Indians & white church missionaries in large circle. Meeting for 4 days. Milling around activity. Men kneel for evening prayers. Women & others around tents. 10:22:07 Washing up in the morning & cooking over campfire. Eating in large circle. 10:22:57 CU Soloman Pawnee Leggings who was at Wounded Knee. Women holding banner, folding it up. Sing. Group of men smoking pipe, get up & leave. Children's games, 2 men arrive in carriage, one gets out & talks to kids about Bishop Hare. Put flowers on Grave site. Bishops confirm kneeling Indians & give them crosses. Christian Religion; Religious Services; Catholics (?); Native Americans; American Indians; 1920s;

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