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Notes for The White Swan Muslin: Deeds of Honor by Candace S. Greene
1. Igor Kopytoff, “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process,” in The Social Life of
Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspectives, ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1986), 64–91.
2. Quoted in Joanne Mack, e-mail to author, March 21, 2012.
3. Douglas E. Bradley, White Swan: Crow Indian Warrior and Painter (Notre Dame, IN: Snite Museum
of Art, University of Notre Dame, 1991).
4. Ibid., 4–15; David C. Cowles, “White Swan. Crow Artist at the Little Big Horn.” American Indian
Art Magazine 7, no. 4 (1982): 52–61; Rodney G. Thomas, Rubbing out Long Hair, Pehin Hanska Kasota:
The American Indian Story of the Little Big Horn in Art and Word (Spanaway, WA: Elk Plains Press,
2009), 270–92.
5. For information on White Swan’s life, I have relied primarily on Thomas, Rubbing out Long Hair.
6. Thomas W. Dunlay, Wolves for the Blue Soldiers: Indian Scouts and Auxiliaries with the United States
Army, 1860–90 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), 38–41.
7. See Sandra Brizee-Bowen, For All to See: The Little Bighorn Battle in Plains Indian Art (Spokane,
WA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003); Richard G. Hardoff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight:
New Sources of Indian-Military History (Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1991); idem,
Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight: A Sourcebook (Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Company,
1995); and, for a synthesis of Native sources on the battle, Thomas, Rubbing out Longhair. Nathaniel
Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (New York: Viking,
2010), addresses some reasons for Americans’ obsession with the battle.
8. Thomas, Rubbing out Longhair, 2–58.
9. E. A. Burbank and Ernest Royce, Burbank among the Indians (Caldwell, ID: Caxton, 1944),154–61.
10. Thomas, Rubbing out Longhair, 257–92, offers the most extensive study of White Swan’s work but
is limited to the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
11. Burbank and Royce, Burbank among the Indians, 154–61. 12. Ibid., 285
13. William Wildschut, Crow Indian Medicine Bundles, ed. John C. Ewers, (2nd ed., New York: Ewers
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1975), 66.
14. Robert H. Lowie, The Crow Indians (New York: Rinehart, 1935), 228.
15. Thomas, Rubbing out Longhair, 271.
16. Lowie, Crow Indians, 216–18.
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