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Post by Dietmar on May 21, 2015 16:35:44 GMT -5
This is also from a message by Victor Douville to Kingsley: "I really appreciate the proboard article on Igmu Wakute. I’m nearly finished on his biography and now I am working on Anna Laura Shooting Cat, cousin to Wildcat Woman, Spotted Tail’s sister-who was killed at Sand Creek. My mother, Annie Red Bird, was named after her (Anna Laura) and she was the granddaughter of Shooting Cat. I have a picture of Anna Shooting Cat at the age of 30, wearing a grown up of elk took T dress, and she looks exactly like the same little girl pictured in the 1879 Carlisle school photograph." Anna Laura Shooting Cat, cropped from a group photo taken at Carlisle Indian School, early 1880s: ...and here when she entered Carlisle in 1879:
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Post by Dietmar on May 21, 2015 17:16:14 GMT -5
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Post by kingsleybray on May 21, 2015 17:55:51 GMT -5
The third signatory to the 1825 Treaty with the Teton Sioux - specifically, the Brule tribal divsion was Igmu-wakute, Shooting Cat. The name is written "E-gue-mon-wa-con-ta, the one that shoots at the tiger".
Victor Douville, the modern Lakota historian, told me in conversation in 2013 how he is descended from this leader: "Victor observed that his own ancestor Shooting Cat I [the Brule chief signatory no. 3 to the Atkinson Treaty in 1825] was originally a Hunkpapa, related to the Chasing Cat family [which later led the Hunkpapa Wakan band]. He 'singled out a Sicangu woman to marry', joining her family in the Wacheunpa band." This probably happened in the 1790s. Judging by the generations he would be a grandfather or great-grandfather to the Shooting Cat of this thread.
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Post by Dietmar on May 25, 2015 3:12:18 GMT -5
One more photograph of "Anna Laurie" at Carlisle... unfortunately in bad quality:
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Post by grahamew on Jun 5, 2015 1:09:59 GMT -5
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Post by witkola on Jul 15, 2015 17:21:05 GMT -5
Modern Lakota dictionaries spell the word for "cat" as Igmu. And isn´t there a trace of wakhute (to shoot) in the (probably badly translated) names above? I´m not a Lakota speaker, can someone help me out? "khúte" is "to shoot." "Wákhute" is "I shoot." and the "wa-" can also be a nominalizer and mean "things" = "to shoot things" (the "kh-" is an aspirated sound like the "k-" in "keep."
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Post by clarence on Sept 7, 2016 7:12:35 GMT -5
Trying to summarize all the information collected in this thread, it seems clear we are talking about at least three different men identified by similar names:
1) Shooting Cat I (also Hunting Cat, Runs The Cat or Tiger), 'Igmu Wakute' ("wakhúte" meaning to shoot things/animals/people, to hunt): He's the 3rd signatory of the 1825 Atkinson Treaty. An Hunkpapa from the Chasing Cat family (Wakan tiyospaye), he married a Brulé woman in the 1790s and became a leader of the Wacheunpa Sichangu. I would say he's the father of The One Who Runs The Tiger, instead of Shooting Cat II.
2) The One Who Runs The Tiger (also Hunting Cat and Crooked Foot according to Victor Douville), 'Igmu Wakuwa' ("wakhúwa" meaning to hunt, to chase, to pursue), 1805-1874: He's the Brulé delegate pictured by A. Gardner during the 1872 Washington trip. He also appears in a couple of photos together with Bald Eagle, Gassy and Julius Meyer (presumably taken in the same period of Gardner's shots. I don't know if these are the treaty delegation pics Victor Douville is talking about, but it's unlikely they were taken in 1825, some 47 years before Gardner series). He should have been the son of Shooting Cat I and the father of Shooting Cat II. I would say Anna Laura Shooting Cat was her daughter too, as some other children enrolled in Carlisle in 1879/80 were sons and daughters of 1872 Washington delegates.
3) Shooting Cat II (also Red Bird), 'Igmu Wakute', 1846-1923: He's the man depicted in the 1904 St. Louis Lousiana Purchase Exposition series. Son of The One Who Runs The Tiger (he bears a strong resemblance), he was the powerful medicine man who performed the Storm Dance at Rosebud agency in the spring of 1879.
Hope this helps Clarence
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Post by grahamew on Sept 7, 2016 9:17:40 GMT -5
The Shooting Tiger signed a 19 July 1815 treaty between "Teetons" and the USA, represented by Wiiliam Clark, Auguste Chouteau and Ninian Edwards.
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Post by kingsleybray on Sept 7, 2016 17:15:31 GMT -5
that's right grahamew, Shooting Cat (Shooting Tiger) signed both treaties, the one in 1815 and the one in 1825. The chief of the Wacheyunpa band of Brules had been The Partisan, met by Lewis and Clark in 1805, then was leader of the Teton delegation to St. Louis in 1807. He went down to St. Louis again in 1815, clearly he and Black Buffalo (leader of the then largest Brule band, the Isanyati) were still the main leaders/intermediaries for the Brules and the wider Teton delegation. Something happened in St. Louis -- we know of course that Black Buffalo died. But The Partisan signs the treaty not with the Teton but with the Yankton (where, don't forget, there was a sister band of Wacheyunpa). And Shooting Tiger signs the Teton treaty, I suspect representing the Brule Wacheyunpa. Like I say, something happened ...
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