Credit: Chief Charging Shield, Oglala Sioux Tribe, seated, was photographed in 1892 with an Oglala Sioux student, Samuel Flying Horse, at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The chief had traveled to the school to visit his sick daughter, Fannie Charging Shield, who died March 7, 1892, of consumption while he was there. Flying Horse died the following year, also from consumption. Fannie, Samuel and another Oglala student, James Cornman, were disinterred in September 2024 and their remains returned to Pine Ridge for reburial. (Historic photo via Cumberland County Historical Society)

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