Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in width and 8 inches in height.
Language: English
Coverage: Unknown
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The reverse reads:
"Charles Butler, or Charley Buckskin as he was affectionately called by residents of East Hampton and Sag Harbor, was the last Long Island to wear his hair shoulder length until his nephew recently affected the style. He was born on October 28, 1878, one year before the Montauk reservation was sold. His mother, Olive Fowler Butler, was a Montauk and sister of Queen Maria. His father, Sam Butler, was a New England Indian, possibly Mohegan or Wampanog.
Chief Buckskin was recognized by the Federated Eastern Indian League as Sachem of the Montauks and in August 1944, in an Indian ceremony at Turtle Back in Three-Mile-Harbor, East Hampton, he buried the hatchet for the Montauks and Chief Night Hawk (Philip H. Peckham) for the Narragansetts thus, officially ending with authentic ceremonies, the ancient inter-tribal war. This ceremony was attended by hundreds of East Hampton people.
Although Narragansetts and Montauks have lived in harmony in both of the brothertown settlements, they had never before signed a tribal treaty. Charley Butler was employed as a farmer for many years by the late George Hand of East Hampton. In spite of one leg being shorter than the other he thought nothing of walking from Sag Harbor to East Hampton, and back in one day. He died on January 11, 1956, aged 77."
