These
images by Anderson are NOT of the Oglala He Dog. The portraits
are actually of a minor Brule headman by the same name;
historians have often gotten the two individuals mixed
up.
Joseph
He Dog by Digmann, Reverend Florentine, S.J., 1920
The
well known Anderson photo:
The
Brule He Dog was in the 1875 delegation and so he may
be one of those photographed in front of the Treasury
Building.
His nose is similar to that of the man in the middle of
the three seated and bonnetted Indians. —
Grahame Wood
I
would assume that the Brule He Dog could be the man in
the middle of the three feather-bonnet men sitting on
the right in the middle row (left to the Brule Ring Thunder)
of the 1875 delegation . He looks very similar to the
He Dog in John A. Anderson's 1894 group photo of the Brule
Sioux at the Rosebud agency. —
Dietmar Schulte-Möhring
