Falling Star
If you are seeking a novel form of entertainment,” counseled the Duluth Evening Herald in 1897, “you must follow New York’s lead and give an ‘Indian tea.’” The event’s success, it added, would depend upon having a Native American like New York City’s Falling Star in “full Indian regalia” on hand to manage the tea table.
Anne Paul Denis Fuller, or Falling Star, as she called herself, was an Abenaki woman from Lake Luzerne who became a New York City media sensation between 1897 and 1900. interviewed her. A photographer for the posed her in a variety of traditional clothes for a Sunday-edition photo spread. The sent a journalist to Lake Luzerne
