New York's Oldest Squaw Reaches the Century Mark A short time ago, Mrs. Susanne Dibeaux, reached the 100 year mark. She lives alone, the oldest member of about 100 Indians in this city, members of the fast diminishing Six Nations, all powerful in the days of Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express. She does not mind living alone, she claims. She makes little trinkets to sell. At times she receives a call to appear as a "crone" in Indian pictures being just the type. She receives a pension from the Government for her late husband, dead a year, a Civil War hero. She has been in New York for 60 years and would not go to any reservation, for as she says "there are no movies there". Though old, she still bears the stamp of the stoical calm and fortitude which made her people the powerful tribe they were in the heyday
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New York's Oldest Squaw Reaches the Century Mark A short time ago, Mrs. Susanne Dibeaux, reached the 100 year mark. She lives alone, the oldest member of about 100 Indians in this city, members of the fast diminishing Six Nations, all powerful in the days of Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express. She does not mind living alone, she claims. She makes little trinkets to sell. At times she receives a call to appear as a "crone" in Indian pictures being just the type. She receives a pension from the Government for her late husband, dead a year, a Civil War hero. She has been in New York for 60 years and would not go to any reservation, for as she says "there are no movies there". Though old, she still bears the stamp of the stoical calm and fortitude which made her people the powerful tribe they were in the heyday

Keystone View Company · [ca. February 1927]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Indians: Misc.

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