DAKOTA DATEBOOK: Charging Bear Adopts Captain Welsh

During the summer of 1913, an event near Fort Yates led to a full-page spread in the Minneapolis Sunday Journal, including photos and artwork. The story referred to Blackfeet/ Hunkpapa Chief John Grass adopting Alfred Burton Welch, Captain in the U.S. Army, as his son.North Dakota historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard writes, “Adoption is one of our sacred seven rites of the Lakota/Dakot...