Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cut-Nose NPG Ax68177

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joel Emmons Whitney

Marpiya Okinajin, or 'He Who Stands in the Cloud's, was better known as Cut-Nose. He and and his band surrounded fleeing white settlers near Fort Ridgely, but were stopped from killing them by a Sisseton Dakota woman who had married a white Indian agent. After the Dakota conflict, Cut-Nose and 37 other Indians were hanged in Mankato on 26 December 1862, the largest 1 day execution in U.S. history. The bodies were dumped in a mass grave but a number of the other bodies were... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.