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Lot Number: 196
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1889 Native American Cheyenne Indian “Activist” Cabinet Card Being a Well Know Spokesman for “Indian Rights”

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1889-Dated Copyright, Cabinet Card Photograph of Cheyenne Indian Brave named KE-KI-OU-KAH (or) Star / Blazing Star, with his identification inscribed below his image, image by Lentz Bros, Peru IND. with the makers decorative printing on the reverse, Fine.

An original 19th century rare Cabinet Card Photograph of Native American Cheyenne Indian Brave named KE-KI-OU-KAH (or) Star / Blazing Star. A nice full length 6.5" x 4.25" standing view of KE-KI-OU-KAH, who was educated at a Kansas College in 1876 when the United States government removed some 4,800 Cheyenne to the western part of the Indian Territory. He was converted to Christianity and became a Missionary Baptist. KE-KI-OU-KAH started touring as an activist speaker in 1884, covering some 20 different States by 1892. Much of his lecturing put forward the case for Indian rights as he laid out just causes for complaint. One North Carolina newspaper put his talk in their headline, summarizing hundreds of Broken Treaties, Incursions by Settlers into Indian Lands, Forcible Displacement by the U.S. Army, and the practices of Corrupt government Indian Agents. The Albumin photograph is mounted on card stock, photographer imprint below and extensively printed on the reverse. This Cabinet Card Photo may have been a fund raising item sold at his various lectures and appearances. Here, KE-KI-OU-KAH is dressed in his ornate native garb, and poses with one hand resting on a draped table with a curtain at left. A rarely encountered Native American Cheyenne Indian “Activist” Cabinet Card.
KE-KI-OU-KAH was able to make his case for Native American Indians even more appealing to his audiences by demonstrating these wrongs, impeded some tribes from gaining the benefits of civilization and Christianity and were thus a challenge to the country's boasted civilization, philanthropy, Christianity and missionary zeal.
Keywords: Native American Cheyenne Indian, Photograph, 1889, Cabinet Card
Lot Number: 196
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