Uptown Super Sunday saw Black Masking Indians take to the streets for the yearly traditional procession, on Sunday March 24, 2024.
Photographer Keith Hill was on the ground, following Big Chief Howard Miller and the Creole Wild West, with encounters with the Young Men Olympian Benevolent Society, the Baby Dolls, Cyril Neville and many others,
“It’s a great day for a gathering of all the tribes coming together,” Howard said of Super Sunday. “So that’s unique. It’s the only game in town that day so everybody can get a chance to see us. The Creole Wild West is special because we were the first tribe and the oldest tribe. What I think is great and unique about us is that we come from a long line of history of great Creole Wild West chiefs—Brother Tillman, Robbe [Robert Lee], Chief [Lawrence] Fletcher, Donald Harrison Sr. Robbe was instrumental in the council coming together. [He thought] chiefs should be able to come together and put this thing [the Black Indian culture] on a level where it would be across the board with everybody to further our culture and control our destiny. That’s our mission, that’s our goal.”
All photos by Keith Hill/OffBeat
