Chief Bone Necklace of the Lakota Nation
Chief Bone Necklace of the Lakota Nation was photographed in 1899. The Lakota Nation consists of seven tribes and has approximately 3,000 members all run by a society that values women far more than men. In fact, the tribe chose their chiefs based on who their clan’s mother was. It was also up to the mother to determine how the tribe’s property and other vital resources would be distributed among everyone in the nation.