In this black and white photograph, Crow Dog (Sunka Kangi) stands in a field holding the reins of a white horse, which has a blanket draped over its back. Wrapped in a blanket, he wears two feathers in his hair and holds a rifle with his right hand. The photograph was taken at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
In 1881, Crow Dog shot and killed Spotted Tail. He was convicted of murder, but the conviction was overturned in a U.S. Supreme Court case that determined that the federal government did not have jurisdictions over crimes involving Indians committed on Indian land. Crow Dog was also a leader in the Ghost Dance Uprising of 1890. The Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation is located nine miles north of Valentine, Nebraska, in South Dakota.
