Natives Arrive.
The steamship Augusta Victoria, from Hamburg, landed at the Barge office yesterday 636 steerage passengers. Among them were three who gave their names to the recording clerk as follows: Shunken-Ka-Scar, He-Shunka-Scarkta and Marto-Chenumpta. They were Sioux Indians, who had been in Buffalo Bill's show in Europe, and were returning to their homes at Pine Ridge, Nebraska. The English of their names is White Horse, White Weasel and Bear Pipe. One of the braves, White Weasel, is in poor health, and will not be able to proceed on his journey to Pine Ridge until he has rested here after his sea voyage and work for Buffalo Bill. The native Americans were registered by a clerk who was born in Hungary.
Title: Natives Arrive
Periodical: News
Source: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West , MS6.3772.005.04 (Crager scrapbook)
Date: July 20, 1890
Topics: Lakota Performers
Keywords: American Indians Atlantic crossings Passenger ships Sioux Nation United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency
Places: Hamburg (Germany) Hungary Nebraska Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Sponsor: This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation.
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