Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency, 1908 (clip)

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Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency, 1908 (clip)

SILENT FILM CLIP (1:16 minutes) -- inducted onto the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2018, this film footage is the only known surviving film from the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker-sponsored expedition to record American Indian life in the west. Filmed by Joseph K. Dixon and his son, Roland, the film captures rare glimpses of life on Crow Agency, Crow Fair and a recreation of the Battle of Little Bighorn featuring four of Custer's Crow Scouts. Film was donated to the Human Studies Film Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and preserved by Cinema Arts in 1983.

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