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Post by cinemo on Sept 17, 2016 13:42:33 GMT -5
This week, hundreds gathered in front of the White House to protest the four-state Dakota Access pipeline as part of a wider "Day of Action."
Also, Senator Bernie Sanders spoke Tuesday evening at a rally condemning the Dakota Access Pipeline.
"People can live without oil, they can live without gold, but nothing can live without water"
A quote by Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu Tribe
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Post by cinemo on Sept 11, 2016 10:52:37 GMT -5
A federal judge on Sept. 9 ruled against blocking work on a section of a four-state oil pipeline project that has sparked Native American protests in North Dakota that have generated national attention and drawn support from Episcopal leaders, among others. But within hours, three federal agencies said they would stop construction and asked the pipeline builder, Energy Transfer Partners, to “voluntary pause” work on government land, land that tribal officials say contain sacred burial sites and artifacts.... See the whole article : episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2016/09/09/despite-ruling-against-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-federal-agencies-halt-pipeline-construction/Here, an interview with Standing Rock tribal historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard : cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Aug 28, 2016 8:15:42 GMT -5
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Post by cinemo on Aug 7, 2016 7:21:06 GMT -5
Chal-ko-gai or Black Goose was born in 1844 to Audle-ko-ety (Aul-ko-et-je or Big Black Hair) and Pau-gei-to (Vau-ga-jau-a or Pursuing Them Along A River), and was enrolled at the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Agency as Chadd le-kaungy-ky. He was a full brother to Black Turtle, Mam-me-da-ty (who received the name Cui-fa-gaui or Lone Wolf in 1874), Ho-va-kah, and Ta-ne-quoot. They comprised a large and influential Kiowa family from the western part of the KCA Reservation. Black Goose was of the last generation of Kiowa to experience the pre-reservation equestrian lifestyle. Although first listed on the 1881 tribal census as Chaddle-kaunky or Black Crane, Black Goose is the correct translation of his name. During the 1880s and 1890s Black Goose resided in his brother Lone Wolf's camp between the forks of Elk Creek, just south of present-day Hobart, in Kiowa County, Oklahoma. Black Goose died early in 1900, as he does not appear on the June 1900 census, and as Agent James F. Randlett nominated Apeahtone on May 7, 1900, to replace Chaddle-kaungy-ky as judge, who was by then deceased. The map of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation drawn by Black Goose identifies numerous rivers, mountains, camps, and noted historical and ceremonial sites with pictographic drawings. Note ! The Text above is an excerpt from this article( Link below ) Please compare the spelling of the Kiowa names ( above ) with the origin article. ( My spelling of the names is inaccurate ) The article was written by William C. Meadows Citation : “Black Goose’s Map of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in Oklahoma Territory,” Great Plains Quarterly, ( 2006 ) Paper 71 . Please, see that link : digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=greatplainsquarterlycinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jul 30, 2016 12:15:38 GMT -5
“The “ConCow Maidu ” as Euro-Americans call us, are the descendants of “Indians” located in the Feather River drainage. All the tribes of the Feather River drainage spoke variations of the Penution language and are culturally and socially akin. We lived in family groups up and down our water ways, amid great natural beauty. We are a stable and highly social people. We participate in the annual gatherings with other tribes for social events, games, and to fish for salmon. To begin the story of the ConCow Maidu we travel back in time to the year 1828. Summer was coming to an end and the ConCow peoples were returning from their summer camps around Grassy Lake. Grassy Lake is about twenty-five miles northeast of their more permanent winter home in the KonKow Valley and surrounding foothills. The KonKow Valley is about twenty miles north of present day Oroville, in Butte County, California. The ConCow migrated with the water up the hills in the summer and back down in the fall of the year. That is when, in the year 1828 that Jedediah Smith first met the ConCow. Jedediah and a party of trappers stayed the six months of winter with our people. In 1833, trappers Michael Lafromboise and John Work spent the winter in the ConCow territory. And between 1828 and 1836 the Hudson Bay Company sent more trappers to the ConCow territory. As a result of the contact with the Euro-Americans, a malaria epidemic swept through the ConCow villages in 1833 killing an estimated 800 people. In the year 1848 gold was discovered and by the year 1849 the ConCow territory was overrun by gold seekers and accompanying settlers. Traditional food sources quickly became scarce and conflicts broke out between the Euro-Americans and the native population. In the year 1850, the government attempted to end the the conflicts between the Indians and the Euro-Americans by creating treaties to place the natives on reservations. During 1850-51, Indian Agent Oliver Wozencraft was sent to negotiate with all the Maiduan groups. On August 1, 1851, the headmen of the nearby ConCow territories were called to gather at the Bidwell Rancho on Chico Creek to conclude a treaty of ” Peace and Friendship ” with O.M. Wozencraft, U.S. Indian agent. The treaties promised the Indians approximately 227 square miles of land roughly from Chico to Nimshew to Oroville. Almost immediately after the federal Treaty of 1851, the California State Senate appointed a committee to look into the treaties and the Governor decided to oppose any law that gave Indians exclusive right to foothill land that was high in gold bearing quartz or to valley land that was valuable to the settlers and farmers. One year later, 1852, the U.S. Senate secretly rejected all the treaties.In 1853 the Government authorized the Nome Lackie Reserve. In 1854 Indians from Marysville, the foothills near Chico and Yuba City were rounded up and driven to the Nome Lackie Reservation and forced to stay there. During the 1850s diseases continued to decimate the ConCow peoples. It was estimated that by 1853 over 800 more ConCow died of pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, small pox, malaria or cholera. The ConCow Maidu Trail of Tears. In the fall of 1862, a large number of Indians were on the Round Valley Reservation. Because of over crowding, lack of food, and unsanitary conditions, disease spread rapidly. Winter was approaching, and the swollen streams surrounding the valley would isolate it from the rest of the world until spring. The ConCow Maidu Indians realized what their fate would be. So one morning in September, a large number, from three to five hundred, packed their meager valuables and said good bye to Supervisor Short, and started for their old home in the Sacramento Valley. They were stopped at the Sacramento River near Chico. Headman Tome-ya-nem told the soldiers that his people were starving and asked for work to earn food for the winter. The ConCow were granted permission to camp about five miles from Chico for the winter. During the next almost one year, more ConCow Maidu Indians were rounded up and corralled with the group from the Round Valley Reservation. The remaining ConCow were ordered to be at the Bidwell Rancheria on August 28,1863 to be taken to the Round Valley Reservation at Covelo in Mendocino County. If any Indians were found after that date, they would be shot on sight. And they were. Agents collected 435 Indians and placed them under Major Hooker’s control in Chico, as prisoners of war. Captain Augustus W. Starr, Co F., 2nd Infantry, California Volunteers, in command of twenty-three mounted infantrymen, was assigned as escort to assist sub-agent Eddy in the removal of the Indians. Fourteen wagons were commandeered from valley ranchers to carry supplies and many of the Indians as far as Thomas Creek. This ill-starred trip has gone down in Indian history as an inhumane drive to a strange and inhospitable valley over a long, hot, dry trail through the Sacramento Valley and through the steep, rocky route of the Coast Range. Many of the Indians already were sick from being rounded up, marched, and corralled. Leaving Camp Bidwell, about four miles north of Chico, on September 4, 1863, the group spent the first night at Colby’s Ferry. On the following nights, stops were made at the Kirpatrick Ranch and the James Ranch. On September 8, they reached the Laycock Ranch on Thomas Creek and the wagons were returned to Chico as planned. When the pack train from Round Valley did not arrive at Thomas Creek four days later, Captain Starr ordered all the Indians to walk approximately three miles to Mountain House where they met the pack train. On September 14, the few who were well enough to travel were put on mule back, their children into one big wagon, and the rest had to go on foot. One hundred and fifty Indians who were too sick from poor drinking water, unaccustomed food, fever, and exhaustion were left with sub-agent Eddy at Mountain House. On September 16, 1863, the wagon was left at Log Springs. Some of the women and children were put on mules or on the soldiers’ horses, but most had to walk the rest of the way to Round Valley Reservation. Making one-night stops at government camps and on the middle fork of the Eel River, they reached Round Valley on September 18, 1863. 461 Indians started the treck, 277 finished. When Captain Douglas at Fort Wright heard that the sick ConCow Indians were dying along the mountain trail on their way back to the Round Valley Reservation, he appointed Supervisor James Short to bring them in. Short took a pack train with food and some teams and wagons to carry the sick Indians. For thirteen days he worked to bring in a ” portion of them.” He later commented that ” about 150 sick Indians were scattered along the trail for 50 miles… dying at the rate of 2 or 3 per day. They had nothing to eat… and the wild hogs were eating them up either before or after they were dead.”” Source : mendonews.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/feather-river-indians-sentenced-to-trail-of-death-the-chico-to-covelo-forced-march-of-1863/cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jul 29, 2016 10:55:11 GMT -5
Hello „niggles“
welcome here in this forum and thank you very much for your input.
Regarding Kiowa – Apache chief „Poor Bear“ , this chief was alive in 1867, because he was a signatory for his tribe during the Medicine Lodge Treaty .
In 1863, there were fourteen southern plains chiefs invited to Washington D. C . . Unfortunately, Kiowa chief Yellow Wolf died some days after meeting the president , but he was buried at the Congressional Graveyard. Personally I found no hint, that another chief or delegation member died en route.
But, in 1863 there were other Indian delegations in Washington, for instance an Ute tribe delegation. Maybe, a member of another delegation died en route.
Greetings from Germany - cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jul 24, 2016 12:56:02 GMT -5
Hi dT,
thank you for this information, very sad news of that tribe.
In Brazil, there are today around 51,000 Guarani living in seven states, making them the country’s most numerous tribe. Many others live in neighboring Paraguay, Bolivia and
Argentina. The Guarani people in Brazil are divided into three groups: Kaiowá, Ñandeva and M’byá, of which the largest is the Kaiowá which means ‘forest people’. This tribe are totally different from the Kiowas in the USA.
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Post by cinemo on Jul 21, 2016 11:21:11 GMT -5
The physical appearance of Cochise
Around 1870 , seemingly there was a widespred estimation by army officers and government officials, that Cochise was used up and even crippled .
General Howard described Cochise after his meeting in 1872 :
"As I took his hand I remember my impression. A man fully six feet in height, well proportioned, large, dark eyes, face slightly painted with vermillion, unmistakably an Indian; hair straight and black, with a few silver threads, touching his coat collar behind....“
Howard's description differs little from that given by Joseph Alton Sladen .
Remarkable is the description of Cochise by Captain Joseph Haskell, who was among General Howard's party in 1872. Haskell later wrote :
"The reports that we have had of Cochise have always given us the understanding that he is old, used up, crippled from wounds and exposure, and of no account whatever as a leader or a chief. How mistaken we were. We met Cochise and 13 of his captains, and Cochise is as different from the others of his tribe, as far as we saw, as black is from white. When standing straight he is said to be exactly six feet tall. I took a good look at him and made up my mind that he was only five feet ten inches. He is powerful, exceedingly well built, bright, intelligent countenance, and as fine an Indian as I ever laid my eyes on."
I would like to emphasize this excerpt :
"The reports that we have had of Cochise have always given us the understanding that he is old, used up, crippled from wounds and exposure, and of no account whatever as a leader or a chief. How mistaken we were....“
After his visit of Cochise in late november, 1872, Governeur Safford wrote :
Excerpt: „ He was often reported to be at different points at the same time, frequently reported dead, and generally believed to be crippled for life...“
In all descriptions above there is not a single hint, that Cochise was impaired with a slight stoop
cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jul 8, 2016 14:37:49 GMT -5
Hi „ouroboros“
so far as I know, the Comanche term or name for the Apaches was „Tashin“ or „Tá-ashi“. Probably, the latter name means „turned up“ and having reference to the Apache moccasins.
Concerning the name „Yoakum“ I am not sure, but I think, the name refers to Henderson Yoakum. This man rode with Captain John Moore's ranger force in 1839 or 1840 . That force killed many Comanches. Within the troop were some Lipan Apaches allies , that killed some Comanche prisoners.
Maybe, for any reason, the Comanches called the Lipans afterwards „Yoakum“.
Again, I am not sure with my assumptions.
cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jul 2, 2016 13:52:24 GMT -5
Regarding Herman Lehman, there are some inconsistencies in his time of captivity. He was captured by two Lipans , but we have no proof by which tribe he remained. I agree with tkavanagh, Lehman was
not among the Comanches before 1877.
Concerning mutual raids between Chiricahuas and Comanches around 1850 and later, I think there were some very occasionally raids. Raids, that were not recorded .
But, remember the brave woman Gouyen. Her first husband was killed in a Comanche raid. She tracked and killed the Comanche who scalped her husband …
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Post by cinemo on Jul 2, 2016 12:59:49 GMT -5
Hi Dietmar,
thanks for your assistance . Regarding that photograph and the photographer , maybe the Autry National Center has a more detailed information.
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Post by cinemo on Jun 25, 2016 14:02:47 GMT -5
Just last Sunday I found a new book by Benjamin Madley : An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
This book was published quite recently this month.
The book contains the buckskin photograph of Captain Jack and hints when and where and from which photographer this portrait was taken.
Personally, I have no permission, to transmit any part or information of that book.
Therefore, I can only recommend this book for information.
cinemo
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Post by cinemo on Jun 18, 2016 13:00:58 GMT -5
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Post by cinemo on Jun 12, 2016 11:19:37 GMT -5
The photograph of Captain Jack ( buckskin clothing ) was taken prior the Modoc War, probably by Louis Herman Heller.
( Occasion for that photograph could have been the Modoc Treaty of 1864, Captain Jack was a signatory of that treaty . Maybe, for this reason Heller photographed Captain Jack sometime after that treaty. My personal guess !! )
Heller, born in Germany, emigrated to the United States in the mid-1850s, and was an assistant to lithographer Julius Bien in the production of the Bien edition of Audubon's THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. In the early 1860s, Heller went to California and established himself as a photographer in Yreka in 1863. He moved to Fort Jones in 1869 and worked there for the rest of the century.
Around 1800, the Modocs adopted some Plains style traits, including buckskin clothing, thus it seems possible, that Captain Jack was wearing such clothing, even mixed with settlers clothing ( boots )
Back to the question > Who really caught Captain Jack ? <
Some happenings at the surrender remain unresolved, but the surrender words of Captain Jack we know. At the surrender, he simply said „ Jack's legs give out „
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Post by cinemo on Jun 5, 2016 10:47:37 GMT -5
The four Modoc scouts were Bogus Charley, Steamboat Frank, Hooker Jim and Shacknasty Jim.
Some people would judge them as traitors . But these men were exhausted, hungry and in fear for the lives for their families.
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