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Post by Dietmar on Sept 27, 2010 9:33:58 GMT -5
A photo of Dewey Beard and his wife I have found at ebay today: and another one from my harddrive:
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Post by geneva on Oct 5, 2010 10:17:14 GMT -5
Hello...My name is Geneva Yankton the daughter of Audrey Beard, who is the daughter of Thomas Beard, the son of the great Dewey Beard. I think that it is great that you have taken an interest in my great great gandfather.
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Post by Dietmar on Oct 8, 2010 3:10:23 GMT -5
Welcome Geneva,
and many greetings.
Dietmar
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Post by brentnvicki on Oct 17, 2010 15:50:10 GMT -5
Geneva,
My name is Brent Stevens. I started this threat by sending a picture of a painting I own of Dewey Beard to Diane to start this post. It was painted by David Humphreys Miller in or around 1938. I don't know if you have heard Story's about David, but he was adopted by your Great Great Grandfather. He would come out and live with Alice and Dewey in the summer time. Dewey Beard attended David and Jan wedding in Rapids City. When David past away his ashes where sent out to a Gentlemen by the name of Putt Thompson. He contacted your family and they met him the Black Hills to have a Ceremony and spread his ashes looking down on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The other half of his ashes where spread on Dewey Beards grave in Kyle. I spoke to Jeffery Not Help him and Mary Not Help Him about the Ceremony briefly on the phone. What relation to you are Mary and Jeffery? When i was at Pine Ridge in April of this past year. Mary agreed to meet with me. Something happened and we were not able to get together. I would very much like to present the family with a Copy of this painting if they would like it. It is also my understanding that during the spreading of the ashes of Mr. Miller Many of your family video taped the ceremony. I would very much like to get a copy of it if I might. Mr. Miller had an estranged son. He and I have have been keeping in contact with each other. I thought i might be nice for him to have a copy of this, since he was not around during his fathers death. I am planning another trip out west in June of 2011. I am trying to arrange meeting with family member who might have stories of Mr Miller. I have been trying to document as much of his life as possible. He was a great friend of the people at Pine Ridge. He was a great artist and painted some very Important Native Americans like your Great Great Grand Father. Any help you might be able to provide would be very much appreciated. Mr. Miller was a friend of my grandfather and was from my home town.
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Post by geneva on Mar 20, 2011 14:23:56 GMT -5
Hi Brent, Apologies for taking awhile to get back to you..I am in my last semester of college and in the process of student teaching. My mother is Audrey beard..her father was Thomas Beard son of Dewey Beard. We are related to Jeff and Mary through Celane. I can see what I can do as far as getting information on the video..I was not there and neither was my mother. I will also ask my mother about Mr. Miller because she lived her grandparents when she was a young girl. I will check back more often, Thank you again.
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Post by emilylevine on Mar 24, 2011 17:13:32 GMT -5
Here is Dewy Beard with his wife---do we know her name? (photo from Center for Western Studies, Shunk Collection; scan of my photocopy) also: I have recently been privileged to see ethnobotanist Melvin Gilmore's notes from an interview with Dewey Beard conducted around 1910. Soon, with Gilmore's family's permission I will see about sharing that.
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Post by kingsleybray on Mar 25, 2011 2:22:11 GMT -5
Gosh, Em, this photo really took me back! Joseph Balmer, of Zurich, lent me a b/w print of this photo, and two others taken at the same time, back in the early 1980s. Just a touch scary to consider that's almost halfway back to the time they were actually taken! The photos were sent to Joe by Eddie Herman (born 1887), the Pine Ridge historian with whom he corresponded. Eddie was a grandson of Jacob Herman, the Ft Laramie blacksmith married to an Arikara-Cheyenne wife (Emily Levine, ed., WITH MY OWN EYES, p. 34; see also endnotes 1-4, pp 141-42 ). I think but don't have an exact reference that Eddie was an older brother of the famous rodeo and Pine Ridge 'personality' Jake Herman. I can't say what was the name of Dewey Beard's wife, but I can tell you that the Herman letters show that she was the aunt of Eddie Herman's wife Vera Janis. Moreover the girl in the picture was the daughter of Eddie and Vera, Janis Bernadette Herman. It's a delight to see how animated the old lady is, talking to her "granddaughter", isn't it? And Dewey's smiling attention. On each of the three photo's (I don't have them or copies, only these transcripts), Eddie H. wrote a little note. Here they are: "10-22-[19]51 Rapid City S. Dak. Dewey Beard & wife talking to their little granddaughter and [sic] Janis Herman. Beard is a compelling speaker. Holds attention of the children while he is speaking. Beard born when the cherries were ripe 1853 on Niobrara River in Neb[raksa]. Son of Horn Cloud. (Minneconjou of Lone Horn's camp.) Father cousin to Sitting Bull. Beard is a great American. He is magnificent. "Dewey Beard instructs Janis B. Herman (old time customs). He said 'Your grandfather Black Hoop was a great warrior. I sang at his grave when he died. You must be a good girl as the Sioux girls were in the days long ago. Remember the old ways are the best.' Janis Herman descendant of the Tessons, Joe Bissonette and Antoine Janis, the French mountain men. "Mrs Beard and Dewey Beard talking to Janis Bernadette Herman. Mrs Beard says 'You must be obedient to your mother and respectful to the old people and kind and generous to the poor. You must be clean and keep your thoughts clean. Then you will have a long life and have many fine children.' "
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Post by emilylevine on Mar 25, 2011 8:07:13 GMT -5
Kingsley Wonderful to have this background on the photograph! And wonderful to read Mrs. Beard's beautiful advice this morning. Thank you for posting all of this. em
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Post by brentnvicki on Mar 25, 2011 16:15:13 GMT -5
Here is Dewy Beard with his wife---do we know her name? Her Name is Alice Beard. In or around 1952 Alice gave David Humphreys Miller a Wedding blanket during his marriage to Jan Miller. She wrapped it around David and Jan and said this is how we get married. Dewey Beard went to Rapid City for the Wedding which was a great Trip for the old Gentlemen back in the day. Dewey, Adopted David in or around the late 30's or early 40's. Alice ,in the pictures that I have seen appears to be a very strong and fun loving woman. Amazing how a man that went through what he did could take a "White Man" and make him his son. True forgiveness. (photo from Center for Western Studies, Shunk Collection; scan of my photocopy) also: I have recently been privileged to see ethnobotanist Melvin Gilmore's notes from an interview with Dewey Beard conducted around 1910. Soon, with Gilmore's family's permission I will see about sharing that.
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Post by brentnvicki on Mar 25, 2011 16:24:13 GMT -5
Hi Brent, Apologies for taking awhile to get back to you..I am in my last semester of college and in the process of student teaching. My mother is Audrey beard..her father was Thomas Beard son of Dewey Beard. We are related to Jeff and Mary through Celane. I can see what I can do as far as getting information on the video..I was not there and neither was my mother. I will also ask my mother about Mr. Miller because she lived her grandparents when she was a young girl. I will check back more often, Thank you again. Thank you for getting back to me. I am planning a trip out for victory week. Perhaps we could meet and I could bring you print of the the painting I have. I might also be coming with Mr. Millers Son who would be related to you through adoption. Let me know if we might be able to make some arrangments
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Post by emilylevine on Mar 25, 2011 20:14:59 GMT -5
Thank you for the information on Alice Beard, brentnvicki.
And let me say again how much I respect, admire, appreciate, and value the information shared here on this forum, and the connections made between us. e
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Post by Historian on Dec 3, 2019 10:40:52 GMT -5
As I understand it, this photo is, from left to right, the Mniconjou Lakota man known as Wasu Maza (aka Iron Hail, aka Dewey Beard), with his 2nd wife, the Oglala Lakota woman known as Alice Lone Bear, and their Oglala Lakota/Mniconjou Lakota granddaughter, Celene Not Help Him, taken on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1920. It is important to note that Iron Hail's first wife was a Mniconjou Lakota woman known as Wears Eagle. She and a baby son named Wet Feet, were killed by the members of the 7th U.S. Calvary Regiment at the massacre of Spotted Elk's camp near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota on 29 December 1890. Iron Hail and his oldest son Thomas Beard, survived the Wounded Knee massacre. Later, Iron Hail (aka Dewey Beard) re-married an Oglala Lakota woman known as Alice Lone Bear. Then, when Thomas Beard was unable to support his wife and daughter because he had contracted Tuberculosis, Dewey & Alice (Lone Bear) Beard took in their granddaughter, Celene, and raised her as their own.
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