File:Chief Many Tail Feathers "adopting" Gov. Ernest Lister into Blackfoot tribe, 1915 - DPLA - 869c474106d2daa132244c1d66785896.jpg

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Chief Many Tail Feathers "adopting" Gov. Ernest Lister into Blackfoot tribe, 1915 (

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Chief Many Tail Feathers "adopting" Gov. Ernest Lister into Blackfoot tribe, 1915

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Transcribed from photograph: "Indians. Washington, Eastern. Chief Many Tail Feathers adopting Gov. Lister into tribe. 1915." The "adoption" took place at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition during festivities celebrating Washington State where Governor Lister was one of the honored guests. According to a September 26, 1915 Seattle Post-Intelligencer article: "Governor Lister will enter into the fun-making spirit of the day when he will be initiated into the Blackfoot tribe of Great Northern Indians. The governor will go through the prescribed ordeal of Indian rites and emerge a legally adopted red skin with the title of "Chief Eagle Tail Feathers.""

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1915

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Seattle Public Library

	Location	Seattle , United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 36′ 24″ N, 122° 19′ 58″ W
	Established	1890
	Website	www.spl.org
	Authority file	: Q7442157 VIAF: 147059007 ISNI: 0000000107435179 LCCN: n50059684 GND: 4841883-3 SUDOC: 163986193 WorldCat

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This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Seattle Public Library as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America, via its partner Northwest Digital Heritage.

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DPLA identifier: 869c474106d2daa132244c1d66785896
Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_nwp_00574

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