Wounded Knee Photo Gallery

Big Foot, or, as he was also known, Spotted Elk (front row seated, second from the left), was photographed by Smithsonian Institution photographer Thomas William Smillie on October 15, 1888, when he accompanied a delegation to Washington. Big Foot clung to the old Lakota traditions and resisted efforts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to "civilize" him. He was not overtly hostile, preferring instead a kind of passive resistance and diplomacy of which he was apparently a master.


	Big Foot, or, as he was also known, Spotted Elk (front row seated, second from the left), was photographed by Smithsonian Institution photographer Thomas William Smillie on October 15, 1888, when he accompanied a delegation to Washington. Big Foot clung to the old Lakota traditions and resisted efforts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to "civilize" him. He was not overtly hostile, preferring instead a kind of passive resistance and diplomacy of which he was apparently a master.

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