Two weeks after his disappearance, his


remains were discovered in the woods near the Aqueduct Bridge (today the Key Bridge) in Arlington, Va. According to documents published by the University of North Dakota in 2006, his remains were found by a man named John Birch and a boy named Joseph Golden who were searching for a lost cow. They reported the body to a county officer who claimed the reward and reported it to Indian Agent Joseph Brown. Scarlet Crow appeared to have hung himself


from a branch with a strip of his own green, three-point blanket. At the scene, Agent Brown noted that the type of knots in the blanket were not those used by Native people. The rest of the blanket was tucked in around Crow’s body, suggesting someone else had been there. Addi- tionally, the branch couldn’t support the weight of a small child, but Scarlet Crow appeared to have been well-fed and only recently deceased.


FACING PAGE: Scarlet Crow (Kan Ya Tu Duta) of the Wahpeton Sisseton Sioux tribe, member of a Dakota delegation to Washington, D.C., in 1867. Scarlet Crow was found hanged in Arlington, Va., in mysterious circumstances. Photograph by Antonio Zeno Shindler, February 1867


ABOVE: Members of the Yankton, Santee Sioux (Dakota), and Upper Missouri Sioux tribes delegation meet with President Andrew Johnson in the East Room of the White House in February 1867. This engraving from Harper’s Weekly was based on a photograph by Alexander Gardner (1821-1882).


Chief Kalkalshuatash, also known as Jason, a member of the 1868 Nez Perce delegation, poses in Washington, D.C., with interpreter Perrin Whitman. Photo by Antonio Zeno Shindler (1823-1899).


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PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES.


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