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Post by jones on Jan 28, 2021 0:57:41 GMT -5
More on the Eastman/Sleepy Eye family. If you can get in contact with Rolette Eastman, she should be a good source of information. www.montenews.com/news/20190926/memorial-prayer-walk-follows-path-of-chief-sleepy-eyeSeptember 26, 2019 Rolette Eastman of Sisseton, S.D., along with her extended family, have been frequent visitors to Sleepy Eye over the past several years. Eastman is a seventh generation descendent of Chief Sleepy Eye — who she calls a grandfather, while acknowledging the generations between them. She often visits the site of his burial at the Depot Museum. Eastman and her family have shared many stories with museum director Deb Joramo on their visits. Last week the group spent two nights in the Sportsmen’s Park campground as they made their way to the 47th annual Mahkato Wacipi (Pow Wow) held at Land of Memories Park in Mankato, Sept. 20, 21 and 22. The Wacipi theme is Honoring the 38 Dakota (referring to the 38 Dakota men hanged in Mankato on Dec. 26, 1862.) Eastman is a member of the Wacipi committee.
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Post by jones on Jan 27, 2021 23:53:31 GMT -5
“Is there any family living today or records i could take a look at?” This article from the Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch has a photo of five his descendants. www.sleepyeyenews.com/news/20160629/descendants-of-chief-sleepy-eye-visit-depot-museum Descendants of Chief Sleepy Eye visit Depot Museum Jun 29, 2016 Rolette and her family pointed out that Chief Sleepy Eye signed five treaties and his son, Man Walks with Valuables on his Back signed two. Chief Sleepy Eye was a signer of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, signed in 1851, which was an agreement between the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota and the U.S. government transferring ownership of much of southern and western Minnesota from the Dakota to the U.S.
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Post by jones on Jan 22, 2021 18:59:11 GMT -5
Incidentally, the 1836 lithographic representation of Sleepy Eye by E.C. Biddle was copied from Charles Bird King's 1824 portrait of him. Most of Charles Bird King's portraits were destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire, so the lithographic reproductions are the only images that remain. There is more information about Sleepy Eye on this website, and I pasted a few excerpts below the link. www.manitouamericans.com/sioux.htmEsh-ta-hum-leah, Sioux Chief Sometimes given as a Warrior and sometimes as a Chief, Sleepy Eyes was a member of the 1824 Sioux delegation to Washington led by Chief Little Crow (Chetan wakan mani), 1765-1770--1833-1834 (Mdewakanton Dakota). Known as the most important Chief at the signing of the Treaty of Traverse Des Sioux in 1851, Chief Sleepy Eyes was one of four Ojibway leaders who visited president Monroe in Washington DC in 1824. After 1857, Chief Sleepy Eyes and his band moved away from his birthplace Swan Lake and set up permanent homes beside Sleepy Eye lake which formerly was called "Pretty water by the big trees". He died in his tepee. He was buried in one of his new buckskin suits, together with his pipe, a mirror, his tobacco pouch and some other small things.
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Post by jones on Jan 16, 2021 20:11:06 GMT -5
“I found a picture of Sleepy Eyes on the same site, Its a copy from somewhere. But good Portrait.“ That portrait of Sleepy Eyes is from McKenney and Hall Indian Tribes of North America Department of war, at Washington. By Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall. Philadelphia, E. C. Biddle, 1836-1844. You can find his portrait and short biography on this link digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/mckenneyhall/id/10/rec/23
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Post by jones on Nov 27, 2020 18:42:51 GMT -5
apnews.com/article/technology-arizona-phoenix-coronavirus-pandemic-wi-fi-23a921f457ca55d8abd319e15f781b7dPINON, Arizona (AP) — One student runs 85 feet up a hill every morning, just to get a cellphone signal so he can call in his attendance. . . Then there’s the high school senior who spends six hours most days doing homework in a car next to a school bus turned Wi-Fi hotspot . . . Said one district superintendent: “We have some kids that we just don’t know where they are.” . . Here, on a reservation the size of West Virginia, the COVID-19 death rate has been higher than that of any U.S. state. . . More than 600 of the Navajo reservation’s 173,000 residents have died from COVID-19. Compare that rate of 347 for every 100,000 people to Maricopa County – Arizona’s largest – where the death rate is 86 per 100,000 people. . . Across the reservation, only a quarter of homes have broadband internet, and fewer than half even have a computer . . . Chris Ostgaard, superintendent of the Piñon district, said only about 50% of students have some form of internet connection . . . Ostgaard said enrollment across the three schools has decreased by about 100 kids from last year. Some, he said, have “disappeared, basically.”
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Post by jones on Apr 13, 2020 21:42:16 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2020/04/12/us/navajo-nation-coronavirus/index.html(CNN) The Navajo Nation enacted a 57-hour curfew over the holiday weekend in an effort to combat the spread of coronavirus among its more than 250,000 members. As of Saturday, there were 698 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 24 deaths, among members of the Navajo Nation living in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer said in a news release.
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Post by jones on Mar 4, 2020 20:33:43 GMT -5
www.npr.org/transcripts/812085201(Transcript from Louise Erdrich’s interview) Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and much of her writing is centered on the experience of Native Americans. Her new novel is set in 1953 and is inspired by her grandfather's role in resisting a congressional effort to withdraw federal recognition from her family's tribe. The book is called "The Night Watchman."
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Post by jones on Jan 29, 2020 12:08:56 GMT -5
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Post by jones on Mar 1, 2019 1:05:19 GMT -5
It is always a pleasure to see a message concerning the "other tribes."
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Post by jones on Jan 20, 2019 14:30:21 GMT -5
Here's a link to a brief history of Apache warriors: Cochise, Victorio, Geronimo, Juh, Nana, Naiche, Chalipun, and Eskiminzin. zybtarizona.com/warriors.htm
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Post by jones on Jan 16, 2019 21:24:22 GMT -5
Chief John Ross was only 1/8 (12%) Cherokee (and Indian blood), so his living descendants (if there are any) could be his g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandchildren, and their percentage of Indian blood could very well be minuscule, but would that make their family history insignificant? The same would be true of the sons & daughters of the American Revolution, and yet they wave their banner proudly. www.britannica.com/biography/John-Ross-chief-of-Cherokee-NationJohn Ross, Cherokee name Tsan-Usdi, (born October 3, 1790, Turkeytown, Cherokee territory [near present-day Centre, Alabama
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Post by jones on Dec 7, 2018 23:54:00 GMT -5
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Post by jones on Dec 6, 2018 16:31:02 GMT -5
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Post by jones on Dec 2, 2018 21:53:56 GMT -5
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Post by jones on Nov 30, 2018 2:42:26 GMT -5
"Among the items in their collection is a buffalo robe that belonged to the Mandan venerated warrior and Chief, Mato Tope. This robe has been illustrated by Karl Bodmer in 1834." Joslyn Art Museum Mató-Tópe (Four Bears), Mandan Chief , 1834 watercolor on paper, 13¾ x 11¼ inches, 41.9 x 29.53 cm Gift of Enron Art Foundation,, 1986.49.383 www.joslyn.org/post/sections/56/Files/bodmer_karl(2).jpg
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