This collection contains content identified by the library as Culturally Sensitive to Indigenous People(s): Box 1, folder 2 contains a description of the Sundance Ceremony, and folder 8 contains a photograph depicting the Sundance ceremony. Folder 9 contains more photographs depicting Sun dancers during the Sundance ceremony and folder 12 contains images depicting a ceremonial burial. For more information please see the Newberry Library’s policy on Access to Culturally Sensitive Indigenous Materials.

The Fred B. Hackett Papers consist of a report of the proceedings of the council held on September 22, 1903 at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota between Congressman E.W. Martin and the delegates of five different tribes, relative to the Black Hills Treaty of 1876; a typed description of the Sun Dance ceremony held at Pine Ridge in 1929 to which Fred Hackett was witness; there are also a series of black and white photographs Hackett took of the Sundance Ceremony. There is a total of approximately 180 photographs, most are original silver gelatin with a handful of reproductions. The majority of the photographs consist of identified and unidentified Oglala Lakota people in South Dakota with a large majority being of women. Photographs of Wasú Máza (Dewey Beard), who fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn and other prominent Native American people such as Iron Tail (1842-1916), are depicted. Other photographs show Hackett’s wife, Lila Hackett. The photographs range from as early as 1882 to as late as 1963.