What is the context for this photo?
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That tribe (the Sioux) gave the headdress in thanks for the Indian Citizenship Act, which gave every Native American automatic citizenship.
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They also gave him the honorary name "Chief Leading Eagle," as seen in this old postcard:pic.twitter.com/iI7xCJ7iXz
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Other presidents in headdresses include FDR (with the Boy Scouts in 1933)...http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-president-franklin-roosevelt-in-a-war-bonnet-fdr-wears-indian-headdress-52433750.html …
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...Nixon (during an election-year visit to North Dakota in 1960)...pic.twitter.com/jDcAxhiGnN
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this guy was found out to be Italian not Native American
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He wore that when sworn in?
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i wonder what masqueraded as political correctness back then. And 5 years later "Papist" Al Smoth suffered ignominious defeat
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Do all our leaders secretly aspire to wear a crown?
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This is really ignorant!
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Good Medicine Beschloss. Let's you and I sit and smoke a pipe and see if we can make the Buffalo come back Kemosabe.
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Picture this in orange. Apologies to President Coolidge.
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When told that Calvin Coolidge had died, Dorothy Parker famously said, "How can you tell?"
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