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Post by cinemo on Mar 17, 2013 11:48:55 GMT -5
Because of her life`s work, Mary Brave Bird remains unforgotten to many people
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Post by cinemo on Mar 9, 2013 14:59:54 GMT -5
Hi dingy,
thanks for posting these photographs. Unfortunately, your photo number 7 contains a mistake. This photo shows not chief Si Tanka.
In the most sources this man is labelled as Yellow Bird – a medicine man. This is wrong too. Four eyewitnesses, three Miniconjous and one mixed-blood, identified the man as Sits Straight, also called Good Thunder.
Despite this, the identity of the central figure in this image is not known. Joseph Horn Cloud mentioned another man, Shakes Bird, who was also singing Ghost songs when the fighting started. He was killed and perhaps is the man in this photograph.
Greetings from Germany - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Feb 24, 2013 4:29:47 GMT -5
Hi, dt,
General Crook was dubbed „ Grey Chief “ , because of his manner of dress and his peculiar whiskers.
Greetings from Germany - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Feb 17, 2013 5:22:51 GMT -5
On February 1, 2013, Father Emmett Hoffmann, a legendary missionary priest, passed away. Father Emmett was made an Honorary Chief of the Northern Cheyenne Council of 44 in 1961, one of only two white men in history to attain that honor. Father Emmett Hoffmann was born in Marathon, Wisconsin, in 1926. Father Emmett was posted to St. Labre Mission in 1954. At that time, he was a member of the Capuchin Order, which he joined in his twenties. (Later, he was a priest in the Diocese of Great Falls/Billings.) Following his seminary years and his ordination, he was sent to Montana in lieu of being sent overseas to a foreign mission. The move to Montana forever changed the course of his life, bonding him to the Northern Cheyenne people and to the Big Sky country that he calls his home. Someone once told Father Emmett, "Father, if you hadn't become a priest, you might have made a good architect." Well, Father sure did a lot of building during his career! He helped build the multi-million dollar construction project at St. Labre Indian School and satellite schools on the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations. Next, he helped found a bank in Ashland, rennovated the Northern Cheyenne Pine Company, a lumber mill that offered jobs to over 100 people. He also helped open a credit union and a first-class post office. Later, he helped build one hundred homes, 3 factories and the Heritage Living Center Father Emmett also helped build a recreational facility for the community, which included a large gymnasium with an indoor Olympic-sized swimming pool. The gymnasium bears his Indian name, Soaring Eagle, which was given to him when he was inducted into the Northern Cheyenne Council of Chiefs. He retired from St. Labre Indian School in 1994, and in 1997 he founded Soaring Eagle, a public charity, with a primary focus on the Forgotten People, the Northern Cheyenne elders. The Heritage Living Center opened in 2002 . The Center provides a peaceful, safe haven for the elders, while allowing them to continue to teach and share their traditions with the young. " My heart is filled with gratitude for your kindness and your concern for these older folks, who have often suffered without the basic necessities of life. When I say "God bless you" I am assuring you of my prayers each day. May our Creator bless you with health, happiness and the joy of knowing you have helped the poorest and most forgotten of people" . -- Father Emmett, 1999 www.soaringeagle.org/hoffmann/cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Feb 16, 2013 15:19:42 GMT -5
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Post by cinemo on Feb 15, 2013 15:40:38 GMT -5
Dull Knife`s first wife was Goes To Get A Drink ( Well Beloved ). As Dull Knlfe took a second wife, Pawnee Woman, his first wife hanged herself. Pawnee Woman was a Pawnee tribe woman, captured by Dull Knife . Later Dull Knife married Slow Woman, the sister of Goes To Get A Drink.
Slow Woman is known also as Short One or Little Woman ( names sometimes referred to as different women or wives ) This third wife was killed by an accident with a horse in 1878, probably in late september, during the escape to the north
There were a total of eleven children ( seven female, four male ) but I'm not sure about the mothers of the children.
Greetings from Germany - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Feb 9, 2013 15:01:28 GMT -5
Despairing of a peaceful settlement, on November 27, Superintendent Odeneal requested Major John Green, commanding officer at Fort Klamath, to furnish sufficient troops to compel Captain Jack to move to the reservation. On November 28 Captain Jame Jackson, commanding 40 troops, left Fort Klamath for Captain Jack's camp on Lost River. The troops arrived in Jack's camp on Lost River about a mile above Emigrant Crossing (now Stone Bridge, Oregon) on November 29.
Wishing to avoid conflict, Captain Jack agreed to go to the reservation, but the situation became tense when Captain Jackson demanded he disarm. Captain Jack had never fought the Army, and was incensed at this command, but finally agreed to put down his weapons. As the rest of the Modoc were following his lead, it is believed that the Modoc warrior Scarfaced Charley and Lieutenant Frazier A. Boutelle, got into a verbal argument, pulled their weapons and shot at each other, both missing their target.The shots were given simultaneously.
At the same time, a small band of settlers attacked Hooker Jim`s Modoc band, that was across the river. It is not known, how many Modoc were killed. Alfred Meacham later wrote, two women and a baby in its mother`s arm were killed. Meacham wrote also, that soldiers piled matting on a sick woman left behind and burned her to death. Captain Jack`s Modoc band fled immediate to the lava beds.In retaliation for the settlers attack, Hooker Jim and a few Modoc warriors killed fourteen settlers ( this was done without Captain Jack`s knowledge ) before these warriors fled to the lava beds too. War was coming.
An official report of the Lost River Battle was made nearly one year later, after the war had ended. This document once again used Captain Jackson`s words "opened fire upon the troops" discounting Lieutenant Boutelle`s report of a simultaneous firing
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Post by cinemo on Feb 2, 2013 15:44:06 GMT -5
In October 1864, the United States and the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake (Yahooskin band) tribes signed a standard treaty , establishing the Klamath Reservation. Under the terms of this treaty the Modoc, with Old Chief Schonchin as their leader, gave up their lands in the Lost River, Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Lake regions, and moved to the reservation in the Upper Klamath Valley.
In 1865, Captain Jack ( Keintpoos ) had left the reservatiion with a small band of Modocs and went back to Lost River country. There the Modocs found settlers had already moved onto traditional Modoc land, even though the official Treaty of 1864 had not been ratified. In late 1869, Keintpoos`band was coerced by the government back onto the reservation. This move was accomplished following a council between Captain Jack, a Modoc leader; Alfred B. Meacham, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon; O.C. Knapp, agent on the reservation; Ivan D. Applegate, sub-agent at Yainax; and W.C. McKay. Talk at the council accomplished nothing. When U.S. Army soldiers suddenly appeared at the meeting place the Modoc warriors fled, leaving their women and children behind. Meacham put the women and children in wagons and started for the reservation. "Queen" Mary, Captain Jack's sister, was permitted to go to Captain Jack to persuade him to move to the reservation. Her efforts were successful. Arriving on the reservation, Jack and his band prepared to make permanent homes at Modoc Point.
Shortly after Captain Jack and his band started building permanent homes at Modoc Point, the Klamaths, their long time rivals, began to mistreat them, making it necessary for the band to move to another part of the reservation. Several attempts were made to find a location. The Klamaths continued to harass the band until finally Captain Jack and his followers left the reservation and returned to Lost River in 1870.
Realizing that there was an unfriendly feeling between Jack's band of Modocs and the Klamath, Alfred B. Meacham recommended to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. that Captain Jack and his band be given a separate reservation. Pending action on his recommendation Meacham instructed Captain Jack and his band to remain at Clear Lake. However, Captain Jack and his band roamed the country harassing the settlers with the result the settlers in the Lost River region petitioned Meacham to remove the Modoc to the Klamath Reservation.
On receipt of the petition, Meacham requested General Edward Canby, Commanding General of the Department of the Columbia, to remove Captain Jack and his band of Modoc to Yainax on the Klamath Reservation. General Canby forwarded Meacham's request to General Schofield, Commanding General of the Pacific, suggesting that before using force to get Captain Jack to the reservation, another peaceful effort should be made.
On April 3, 1872, Major Elmer Otis held a council with Captain Jack at Lost River Gap, near what is now Olene, Oregon. At that meeting Captain Jack and the important men of his band were distinctly hostile. Nothing was accomplished toward relocating the band to the reservation.
On April 12, the Commission of Indian Affairs in Washington requested T. B. Odeneal, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Washington, to get Captain Jack and his band of Modocs to the reservation if practicable and to see that they were not maltreated by the Klamath.
On May 14, Odeneal, carrying out his instructions, sent Ivan D. Applegate and L. S. Dyer to arrange for a council with Captain Jack, which Jack refused.
After the failure to meet with Captain Jack, on July 6, 1872, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington directed Superintendent Odeneal to move Captain Jack and his band to the Klamath Reservation, peacefully if possible, forcibly if necessary.
"You are directed to remove the Modoc Indians to Camp Yainax on the Klamath Reservation, peacably if you possibly can, but forcibly if you must " ( Message by F. A. Walker to T. B. Odeneal, November 25, in 1872 )
to be continued - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jan 27, 2013 5:31:54 GMT -5
Another source for General Sully`s winter quarters 1863/64 is the correspondence between Adjutant-General of Iowa., N.B.Baker and General Sully. Please see the correspondence, in this link, below : www.kinyon.com/iowa/iaroster06/nbbsketch.htmGreetings - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jan 26, 2013 17:13:23 GMT -5
Okay Sara,
this was only an encyclopedia link, but I was finding information about Gen. Sully`s winter quarters 1863/64 in other sources too. An example for this is a book by L.D. Ingersoll > Iowa and the Rebellion < page 686
Greetings - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jan 26, 2013 13:48:14 GMT -5
Hi schilders, an additional information to General Sully`s winter quarters 1863/64. In summer 1863, Sully established headquarters at Sioux City, Iowa, and set up a base camp at Fort Pierre, South Dakota. On 13 August he left the fort for a quick march northward. On 3 September he fought a battle near White Stone Hill, North Dakota; the Dakota camp was dispersed and their supplies destroyed. Sully took prisoners and returned to his winter quarters at Sioux City. Please see this link for a short information : www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401801126.htmlGreetings from Germany - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jan 25, 2013 14:46:03 GMT -5
The Modoc War was the only Indian war in American history, in which a full ranked general was killed. This general was Edward Richard Sprigg Canby. ( George Armstrong Custer was not a full ranked general )
In his earlier career, Canby had served ( for examples ) in the Second Seminole war in Florida, and in 1860, Canby had coordinated a campaign against the Navaho in New Mexico.
The Modoc War cost the United States government, at its lowest estimate, half a million dollars. Considering the number of the enemy, there were only about 50 - 60 Modoc warriors, it was probably the costliest Indian war ever fought. In comparison, the reservation requested by the Modoc on Lost River would have cost, at most, $10,000 up to 20.000.
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Post by cinemo on Jan 19, 2013 11:29:19 GMT -5
In Canada is growing a movement of protest - Idle No More Idle No More is an ongoing protest movement originating among the Aboriginal peoples in Canada comprising the First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples and their non-Aboriginal supporters in Canada, and to a lesser extent, internationally. It has consisted of a number of political actions worldwide, inspired in part by the hunger strike of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence and further coordinated via social media. A reaction to alleged abuses of indigenous treaty rights by the current federal government, the movement takes particular issue with the recent omnibus bill Bill C-45. The movement was initiated by activists Nina Wilson, Sheelah Mclean, Sylvia McAdam and Jessica Gordon in November 2012, during a teach-in at Station 20 West in Saskatoon called "Idle No More", held in response to the Harper government's introduction of Bill C-45. The protest actions have also spread outside of Canada. There were protests in many countries, worldwide, even in Egypt.In the USA were recently protests in many states, Minnesota, Texas, Colorado, Arizona and others. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_No_MoreHere is a video at Farmington, New Mexico Greetings from Germany - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jan 19, 2013 7:13:40 GMT -5
Recently I wrote: The Washechoon who was executed, was a sixteen year old white boy, who had been brought up among the Dakotas ( See Reply #11 and Reply #15 )
It seems, this was first written in a book by Thomas Hughes, History of Blue Earth County, published 1909. I was finding a hint ( footnote ) about that in History Of The Santee Sioux, by R.W. Meyer ( page 130 )
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Post by cinemo on Jan 12, 2013 14:38:10 GMT -5
I think that book is unique with regard to the Modoc war and Modoc culture, very well written
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