The Wounded Knee Interviews of Eli S. Ricker

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Full Citation: Donald F Danker, ed., “The Wounded Knee Interviews of Eli S. Ricker,” Nebraska History 62 (1981): 151-243.

URL: https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/doc/publications/NH1981Ricker.pdf

Article Summary: Eli Ricker, a Chadron area rancher, lawyer, and newspaper editor, spent more than twenty years researching Sioux Indians. This article includes transcripts of nine of his 1906-1907 interviews about the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Cataloging Information: Interviewees: Joseph Horn Cloud, Dewey Beard, Philip Faribault Wells, Richard C Stirk, Paddy Starr, Robert O Pugh, Charles W Allen, Louie Mousseau, M Swigert

Names: Eli S Ricker, Addison E Sheldon, Mari Sandoz, Nelson Miles, George Bird Grinnell, Daniel Royer, John R Brooke, Sitting Bull, James McLaughlin, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot, Edwin Vose Sumner, Charles W Allen, James W Forsyth, James McLaughlin, Hump

Place Names: Chadron, Nebraska; Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota; Rosebud Agency, South Dakota; Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota; Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota

Keywords: Eli S Ricker, Battle of Wounded Knee, Sioux, Ghost Dance, Sitting Bull, Big Foot, Minneconjous, Pine Ridge Reservation, Rosebud Reservation, Nelson Miles, Joseph Horn Cloud, Dewey Beard, Philip Faribault Wells, Richard C Stirk, Paddy Starr, Robert O Pugh, Charles W Allen, Louie Mousseau, M Swigert, Hotchkiss guns, Edwin Vose Sumner

Photographs / Images: Eli S Ricker; Eli S Ricker Collection, Nebraska State Historical Society; monument to Indians who died at Wounded Knee, dedicated May 30, 1902; Charles W Allen, August 1944; map of the campaign against the Sioux Indians (14th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1896); Ghost Dancers as depicted by Mary Irvin Wright; map of Wounded Knee battlefield drawn by Philip F Wells; map of Wounded Knee Battlefield from the 14th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1896; explanation of the map of Wounded Knee Battlefield; brothers White Lance, Joseph Horn Cloud, and Dewey Beard, February 1907; survivor of Wounded Knee Zitkala-noni (Lost Bird), baptized Marguerite after adoption by General L W Colby, commander of the Nebraska state troops

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