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Opómika
Jul 18, 2008 11:59:37 GMT -5
Post by Diane Merkel on Jul 18, 2008 11:59:37 GMT -5
The following was posted on the Little Bighorn Message Boards. Perhaps someone here can help. Dear All,
Please allow me to present a question. As curator at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, I came across a reference in the museum’s records about a Sioux chief. His name has been registered as Opómika, with the apparent meaning of “One Hundred.” He died in 1871, in Dakota Territory, according to the same reference. The information comes from the anthropologist Walter J. Hoffmann of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, who, as a medical officer, visited the Lakota at the Grand River Agency in 1872-1873.
The transcription of his name may not be correct or up to date. A Dakota online dictionary presents opawiå¥e, meaning “one hundred” or literally “the turning point.”
Could somebody help us out? Has anybody heard of this chief and has additional information about his life? Any help is very, very much appreciated. Thank you in advance for your attention and assistance!
With kind regards,
Gerard |
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Opómika
Mar 14, 2009 5:14:10 GMT -5
Post by matotanka on Mar 14, 2009 5:14:10 GMT -5
Hau, in Lakotiya Opawinge means one hundred.
Mato Tanka
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Opómika
Mar 15, 2009 0:45:27 GMT -5
Post by gorkinoff on Mar 15, 2009 0:45:27 GMT -5
Opawinge and Wife Mazawin (Iron Woman)  Opawinge also has a passing mention in: Kaleidoscopic Lives-A Companion Book to Frontier and Indian Life by Taylor (1902) Opawinge and his wife are on this page... www.usgs.gov/features/native_americans.htmlI have a friend that helped to find these pictures in an attic of a building at Stephan, S.D....He says that they were literally falling apart in his fingers when they were trying to remove them...There were many boxes full of glass plates and they just threw some of the worst ones out!!!!...(they could have been restored!!-Gasp!) There are many photos that are currently being restored and will be posted when they are... Blue Cloud Abbey is a treasure trove of information...They have the original Father Daniel Madlon Family Trees and if you call them you can get a copy of trees that you are a part of... Father Dan was a Genealogist of the Lakota...and a Catholic Priest (my Grandma knew him!) Big Jon P.S. I see that the guy you are looking for died in 1871 and this guy is still alive in 1897?...Maybe a relative, maybe not! (same with the guy mentioned in the book) |
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Opómika
Mar 15, 2009 5:06:37 GMT -5
Post by grahamew on Mar 15, 2009 5:06:37 GMT -5
"There were many boxes full of glass plates and they just threw some of the worst ones out!!!!...(they could have been restored!!-Gasp!)"
Frightening. History disappearing before our very eyes.
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