Edward Two-Two

Grave of the Indian "chief" Two-Two

Epitaph

Edward Two-Two (* 1851 in the USA; † July 27, 1914 in Essen ) was an Indian from the Lakota - Sioux tribe , who performed at Hagenbeck in Hamburg and in the Sarrasani circus in Dresden at the beginning of the 20th century , and the German Introduced the audience to Indian life.

Life

Edward Two-Two was an Indian from the Lakota-Sioux tribe who initially lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and served in the reservation police from 1891. In 1910 he appeared in the Völkerschau at the Hamburg Zoo in Hagenbeck and then went back to America. In 1913 and 1914 he returned to Europe with the family because the Sarrasani Circus in Dresden had signed him. He was named "Sioux chief" by Sarrasani. Due to the good treatment and recognition of his family, he wanted to be buried in Dresden. When he died during a tour in Essen, his body was transferred to Dresden as requested and buried there in the New Catholic Cemetery. His name means something like "one of two" in the Lakota language. The inscription on the tombstone reads in Lakota language: "May angels lead you to paradise".

Others

Karl May and Two-Two never met because Karl May died in 1912, while Two-Two and his people did not arrive in Dresden until March 1913. In addition to the grave in the New Catholic Cemetery in Dresden, there is a second Indian grave in Emden , where another Sarrasani Indian, William Big Charger , who died in 1932, found his final resting place.

In 2012 Bettina Renner shot a documentary film Buried my heart in Dresden , which deals with the life of the Indians in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, with Edward Two-Two and his descendants.

literature

Anne Dreesbach: Tamed savages. The display of "exotic" people in Germany , Campus Verlag, 2005
René Grießbach: Indians in Dresden , in: Dresdner Blätt'l, 18th year, edition 13/2007 of November 2nd, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME	Two-Two, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Indian from the Lakota-Sioux tribe
DATE OF BIRTH	1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	United States
DATE OF DEATH	July 27, 1914
Place of death	eat