Caroline Weldon
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Susanna Karolina Faesch colloquially known by her pen name Caroline Weldon was a Swiss American artist and activist with the National Indian Defense Association. Weldon became a confidante and the per
Weldon c. 1878–1882
Sitting Bull, by Caroline Weldon, 1890, oil on canvas
Sitting Bull, oil on canvas, painted by Caroline Weldon in 1890 based on a photograph by Palmquist & Jurgens dated March 1884
Caroline Weldon (right) and her friend Aline Estoppey in Mount Vernon, New York, 4 April 1915
Ghost Dance
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The Ghost Dance is a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According to the millenarian teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka, renamed Jack Wilson, pro
Caroline Weldon
…Weldon became a confidante and the personal secretary to the Lakota Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull during the time when Plains Indians had adopted the Ghost Dance movement. Weldon was born Susanna Karolina Faesch on December 4, 1844 in Basel, Switzerland, to Johann Lukas Faesch (1799–1867), a military officer serving in…
Wovoka, the Northern Paiute spiritual leader and creator of the Ghost Dance
An Arapaho buckskin ghost shirt, ca 1890
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