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Owen Luck Photographs Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Owen Luck is an American photographer known for his photographs of Native American Indian life and history.
The collection consists of approximately 130 black-and-white selenium-toned silver gelatin photographs taken by Luck, which are arranged according to three separate series: Wounded Knee 1973, Menominee 1975, and Pine Ridge Reservation life 2000-2001.
Photographer personally numbered the photographs as he intended them to appear in each series. In the case of the Menominee series, this sometimes contradicts the numbering sequence noted on the verso of the photographs; these contradictions have been noted.
Purchased from the artist in 2001.
Inventory added by Lisa Yankowitz '2013 in 2012.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Lisa Yankowitz
- Finding Aid Date
- 2012
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Collection Inventory
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Consists of thirty-nine 11x14 inch black and white selenium-toned gelatin silver prints of the 1973 American Indian Movement liberation of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
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"Young man with black hat Edgar Bear Runner." Peaceful demonstration, outside B.I.A. (Bureau of Indian Affairs) building during the early days of the 1973 take over of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation South Dakota.
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Portrait of Elder protesting oppressive conditions at the hands of U.S. Govt. supported Tribal Govt.
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Portrait of Elder protesting in support of AIM (American Indian Movement) and Ogalala activists.
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"Three generation of Yellow Hair"
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Federal Marshals and F.B.I. Agents armed with M-16 automatic weapons, sniper rifles, and "APC" Armored Personnel Carrier, blocking road between Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee.
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Entering Wounded Knee 1973. (Church burned and sign removed following occupation)
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Chicano (Mexican American) supporters.
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Leonard Crow Dog spiritual leader of AIM assembles. Pipe. Dennis Banks in background.
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Crow Dog offers the Pipe to the four directions as Black Elk purifies the air with burning sweet grass.
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"Tom Bad Cob w/cain. With pipe: White shirt: Pedro Bissonette, dark shirt: Russel [sic] Means." Crow Dog and Black Elk lead prayer while Tom Bad Cob (with cain) is honored and Pedro Bisonette and Russell Means pray with Pipe for wisdom.
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AIM members fight prairie fires started by flares fired by FBI positions to disrupt honor ceremony for Milo Goings, the first man wounded at Wounded Knee.
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Before a dormant sweat lodge frame, Crow Dog lights the Pipe, along the Big Foot Trail.
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"Bkgnd: Hat w/(2) feathers - Henry Wawasi-Potowotamy. Forgeground pipe - Frank Fools Crow."
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"Left to right - Leanard Crow Dog, Brule Lkota; Henry Wawasie-Potowatamy." Crow Dog (left) with eagle wing fan looks on as Chief Fools Crow offers Pipe to the Four Directions. In prayer (right to left) Russell Means, Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellacourt.
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"Left to right: Leonard Crow Dog, Brule Lakota; Henry Wawasie-Potowotamy. Center bkgnd: no hat Oscar Bear Runner."
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"Left to right: Gill Frazier, Clyde Bellacourt, Dennis Banks, Russel [sic] Means, Carter Camp." AIM leaders: (right to left) Carter Camp, Russell Means, Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellacourt.
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"Left to right: Gill Frazie Lorelie Means, Clyde Bellecourt [sic], Dennis Banks, Leonard Crow Dog with eagle wing fan, Carter Camp." Crow Dog blesses each of the leaders with the eagle wing fan.
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"Left to right: unknown, Milo Goings, Larry Hand Boy." Milo Goings (center) the first man shot at Wounded Knee. Symbolically Milo was shot through his knee. Supported by fellow Lakota Warriors, Goings is honored for his bravery.
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Procession from honor ceremony at the Big Foot Trail is lead to the mass grave of the original 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
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FBI armored personnel carrier just repositioned from tree line.
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"Unknown medical volunteers, Grandmother Bear Runner."
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"Left: Marvin Ghost Bear, security for National Council of Churches." Ghost Bear (left) and Oscar Bear Runner (right w/back to cameras) provide security for National Council of Churches Observers as they are escorted around the occupied area.
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Reverend Abernathy of the NCC (National Council of Churches) is allowed through AIM position to meet Justice Dept. negotiators.
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Justice Dept. negotiations approach AIM road block.
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AIM security procession escorting Justice Dept. negotiators into Wounded Knee.
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AIM security procession escorting Justice Dept. negotiators into Wounded Knee.
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"Left to right: Bill Walsh, Bill Kuntsler [sic], unknown, Carter Camp."
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"Left to right: unknown, Milo."
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"Left to right: Art Chips, Tom Bad Cob, Vine King [?], unknown."
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FBI road block from plane landing during first air lift.
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Foot patrol with horse to run with courier in the event of emergency.
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"Frank Fools Crow, Kyle So. Dakota." Chief Fools Crow beneath arbor at home in Kyle.
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"Fools Crow's home, Kyle, So. Dakota. Left to right: Rev. Abernathy, standing man unknown, Father Pates, woman unknown, Leaning forward Tom Bad Cob, Severt Young Bear, Frank Fools Crow." Reverend Abernathy meets with Chief Fools Crow.
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"Rapid City Jail." Federal Agents escort Wounded Knee legal defense into Rapid City Jail after the surrender.
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"Tom Bad Cob." Outside the Rapid City Jail. Bad Cob protests his people's plight at the hands of the U.S. Govt.
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Consists of twenty-seven 11x14 inch black and white selenium-toned gelatin silver prints of the 1975 Menominee Warrior Society liberation of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate in Menominee, Wisconsin.
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Inside the occupied area.
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Menominee Sentry. Bullet holes from vigilante snipers shooting just before dawn.
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Lt. Col. Simonson. Comander of National Guard. (An honorable man of high ideals, good intentions, and actions, he has since passed away from cancer. A shame. I am proud to have faced him).
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The Col. negotiates the evacuation of the Menominee children.
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Menominee warriors salute heroic children as they leave the occupied area.
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Women scrape deer hide from feast meat.
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Marlon Brando with Menominee and AIM supporters at the Drum.
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Consists of fifty-three 11x14 inch black and white selenium-toned gelatin silver prints of life on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
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"Camp Justice. Loren Black Elk, Ogalala. DOB 1960, Pine Ridge, So. Dakota. His brother Wilson "Wally" Black Elk, Jr. was one fo the two victims found murdered at this site."
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"Camp Justice. Webster "Web" Poor Bear, Lakota. DOB 1/11/51. Wamblee, So. Dakota. Sun dancer. Served Vietnam w/173rd Airborne. Served Wounded Knee 1973. Great grand parents killed in Wounded Knee Massacre."
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"Camp Justice. Tom Poor Bear, Wamblee, South Dakota. Served Wounded Knee 1973. Great grand parents killed Wounded Knee Massacre."
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"Camp Justice. This monument marks the spot where the bodies of Wilson "Wally" Black Elk, Jr. and Ron Hard Hart [sic] where found after being brutally murder."
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"Ceremonial tipis being raised at the community college at Kyle for the Kyle Powwow.
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"Kyle Powwow, warriors lead the opening ceremonies."
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"Kyle Powwow. Food line after giveaway on the first day."
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"Gillford Noisy Hawk, Cherry Hill Pine Ridge. Served Korea. Sylvester Bad Cob, Wanblee. DOB 4/19/23. Served Navy 1942-1957. WW vet. Kyle Powwow."
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"Jasper Milk, Ogalala. Wambli [sic], So. Dakota."
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"Kyle Powwow. Traditional dancer w/cermonial tipi. Tony White Thunder, Rapid City, So. Dakota."
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"marvin Ghost Bear (Ogalala). Born, died 2001. U.S. Army 65-68 infantry Korea/Germany, 1983 graduated University of No. Dakota. B.A. Education cum laude. elementary school teacher 10 yrs. Served Wounded Knee 1973. His grandfather helped Big Foots band in original massacre. Marvin was on dialysis when he died awaiting a kidney transplant. He was my very good friend."
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"Dephine Red Shirt (center), Ogalala, mourns the loss of her mother. One year after funeral Lakota people honor lost family with the presentation of the headstone. Carl Bone Shirt w/pipe, Brule Lakota, from the Rosebud Reservation."
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"Grace Hollow Horn, Ogalala. Born Jan. 23, 1922, served Wounded Knee 1973. Resides, Wounded Knee.
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"Veronica Kills in Water, Wounded Knee, So. Dakota. Gerald Ice's camp."
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"James Rock, Ogalala, served Wounded Knee 1973. Marilyn Rodriguez, Wounded Knee, South Dakota."
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"Anthony Black Feather, DOB 8/13/35. Served U.S. Army Airborne, special delegate of teh American Indian Law Alliance to the Indigenous Peoples Sub-Commission on Human Rights to the United Nations."
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"Bob Lone Elk, Ogalala; Side Lone Hill, Ogalala, Porcupine."
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"Calvin T. Spotted Elk, Minneconjon Lakota, 6th generation family killed at Wounded Knee 1890, Porcupine, South Dakota."
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"Richard D. Spotted Elk, Minneconjon Lakota, 6th generation, family killed Wounded Knee 1890, Porcupine, So. Dakota."
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"Fools Crow camp, Kyle. Shirly [sic] Marshall, Ogalala, Kyle South Dakota, adopted grand daughter of Frank Fools Crow."
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"House of Vicki Eagle Elk, Kyle, South Dakota."
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"Manderson Powwow. Veternans gather flags to present to families who have lost warriors at war."
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"Manderson Powwow. Honor for the fallen."
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"Manderson Powwow 2001. Naming ceremony. Those to be named are lead by the drum."
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"Manderson Powwow 2001. Name ceremony. Each child receives a name feather. here the spiritual leader prays to the four directions with one feather."
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"Manderson Powwow 2001. Name ceremony. The newly named are lead around the arbors and introduced by their native Lakota name. They follow as pemmican and chokecherry juice is passed around."
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"Manderson Powwow 2001. Naming ceremony; three generations."
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"Manderson Powwow 2000. Three generations: (sitting left) Olivia Fire Thunder; (standing) Miranda Thunder Bone; (sitting right) Victor Fire Thunder."
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"Manderson Powwow 2001. Two jingle dancers: Jessica La Deaux, Angelina Rodriguez."
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"Manderson Pow Wow. Melissa Caroon [?] wearing traditional regalia."
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"Selo Black Crow, Sun Dance leader."
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"Gerald Ice's camp, Wounded Knee. Ceremonial tipis and sweat lodge."
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"Gerald Ice's camp, Wounded Knee. Preparing the giveaway in celebration elders [sic] birthday."
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"Gerald Ice's camp, Wounded Knee. Great grandmother beneath umbrella."
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"Gerald Ice's camp, Wounded Knee.
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"Bear Runner, Ogalala activist, Porcupine, South Dakota."
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"American Indian rodeo riders, Floyd Wilcox Memorial Rodeo, 2001."
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"Boots instead of moccasins, Floyd Wilcox Memorial Rodeo, 2001."
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