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Post by jones on Mar 27, 2018 15:55:27 GMT -5
Page 22 in The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse: Three Eyewitness Views (introduction by Robert A. Clark) says Spotted Tail was Crazy Horse's uncle, and he used Hyde as a reference in his footnotes, but it appears that is wrong. How reliable is the other information in George E. Hyde's Spotted Tail's Folk? Some of Hyde's work was published decades after he began researching in 1904, so the publication dates can be misleading. Here's a link to Hyde's Spotted Tail's Folk (page 15, that says Crazy Horse "was the son of Spotted Tail's sister") If it doesn't show up, hit reload and that works for me. books.google.com/books?id=ZbkNJpW-BAwC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15#v=onepage&q&f=true..... Off topic: Page 98 in The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse: Three Eyewitness Views (He Dog, William Garnett, Valentine McGillycutty) shows Billy Garnett misidentified the relationship between Woman Dress and Louis Shangreau. He said Woman Dress was Shangreau's uncle. I borrowed a 1st edition copy of that book and scanned every page last night. I was surprised to see there were only 300 first edition copies published.
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Post by jones on Mar 1, 2018 0:10:56 GMT -5
Maybe I shouldn't have claimed that Knife Chief was at Pike's council with the Pawnees. I tried to find what reference I have for that, and so far I have found only one vague suggestion to that effect -- something that George Sibley wrote when he visited the Pawnees in 1811; he mentioned a Skidi "head chief" and Pike, but he didn't tell his name. On the other hand, the father of Shartarish (also named Sharitarish "Wicked Chief") was there, and the son's portrait is the other Pawnee portrait by Charles Bird King on display in the Whitehouse library. There's already far too much misinformation floating around for me to be adding to it, so until I can find something that supports my notion that Knife Chief was among those at Pike's council, disregard it. As to the various Pawnees named Petalesharo -- I rummaged through my files and found a "Petalesharo The Younger" or "Petalesharo II", and the information I have about him indicates he was a member of the Chaui "Grand" Pawnee band, whereas, the earlier Petalesharo was with the Skidi "Wolf" band, which puts doubt as to a close (if any) family relationship between the two.
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Post by jones on Feb 28, 2018 14:05:03 GMT -5
The earliest Pawnee called "Knife Chief" that I know of was one of the head chiefs who held council with Zebulon Pike on September 25, 1806. Petalesharo was his son. Subsequently, there were other Pawnees named Knife Chief and Petalesharo. The Knife Chief who met with Pike was described by Hyde: The Pawnee Indians By George E. Hyde books.google.com/books?id=xA9Tt5LxS2sC&pg=PA160#v=onepage&q&f=true"Knife Chief (Lachelesharo) was opposed to holding the sacrifice, which he knew the whites regarded with abhorrence, but the people listened to his talks coldly, for they believed if Morning Star were not propitiated by sacrifices, their crops would fail and the men would have no success in the hunt or in war. This chief, a tall, fine looking elderly man with hair graying at the sides of his head, had been to St. Louis to visit the Indian Superintendent, William Clark, and had come home with his views concerning some of the ancient customs of his tribe greatly altered. He had a son Pitalesharo (Man Chief) born in 1795 or 1797, a tall, handsome youth, who was regarded by all as the bravest warrior in the tribe."
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Post by jones on Feb 9, 2018 19:22:53 GMT -5
I was in a hurry earlier and didn't realize de Bourgmont's 1714 journal (as translated) is available on the American Journeys website, but I just now found time to check it out and located it. Among other things, he describes which tribes are friendly and trade with the French. As he began ascending the river (page 13) he gives this description: "All of these tribes are almost all armed with guns and use them very skillfully." The Kanza or "Kaw" Indians (for whom our state was named) are briefly described on pages 15 & 16: "Higher up is found another river which flows into the Missouris, called the Ecanze River, on which there is a tribe of the same name, allies and friends of the French. Their trade is in Furs. . . They almost always hunt with bow and arrow. They have very fine horses and are very good horsemen." Here's the link. www.americanjourneys.org/pdf/AJ-093.pdf
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Post by jones on Feb 9, 2018 15:48:55 GMT -5
My personal history collection is mostly about events between the Mississippi River and the Continental Divide after 1690, so if you are interested in events (trading, exploration &c.) in this region I would suggest starting with Ettienne de Bourgmont's journals. I have his 1714 journal in my collection, but presently I can't find it online. I'm sure it is there someplace. Here's an account of his 1724 trek. www.nebraskastudies.org/0300/media/0303_0302bourgmont.pdfThe American Journeys website has several primary source materials. www.americanjourneys.org/aj-093/summary/
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Post by jones on Feb 8, 2018 19:26:51 GMT -5
The so-called "unidentified" man in the wedding photo is Judge L.A. Justus, Jr., and at that time he was one of the youngest members of the Oklahoma bar. He was born May 24, 1899, so he was a few days shy of 27 years old when he presided at the wedding. He went on to make judgements in the Osage oil lease scandals. books.google.com/books?id=qtHM8-IMXP0C&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50#v=onepage&q&f=trueThe Osage People and Their Trust Property: A Field Report (commenced August 1, 1952 -- completed April 30, 1953) . . . . Also of of interest pertaining the oil leases: In 1913, the US Secretery of Interior stripped Bacon Rind of his head-chief title due to a 1906 oil-lease bribery. books.google.com/books?id=2AEtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241#v=onepage&q&f=trueI call the committee's attention to the treatment the Uncle Sam Oil Co. has received at the hands of the press during this hearing. . . They have circulated the report that Mr. Fisher stated to the committee that Bacon Rind had confessed to receiving a bribe from the Uncle Sam Oil Co., when the statement was that Bacon Rind had confessed to receiving a bribe about seven years before the first negotiations between the Uncle Sam Oil Co. and the Osage Indians for this lease, and that the proposition upon which he confessed to taking a bribe had nothing whatever to do with the negotiations for the Uncle Sam Oil Co. lease. In fact, it occurred, as I recall it, before the organization of the Uncle Sam Oil Co. . . Glenn, the fellow who was indicted for the bribery, was a dummy for the Standard Oil Co. Now, the press connects the bribery committed by a dummy of the Standard Oil Co. before our company was organized, . . The Interior Department since 1906 has known that the 800,000 acres comprising the west portion of the reservation was rich in oil and gas, but it has made no honest effort to lease the tract for any honest development during all that time. Some suggestion has been made that for a part of that time the Indians themselves requested that no leases be made for fear that a large supply of oil would be developed and thrown upon the market and the market price be so reduced that the royalty would not be of benefit to the Indian tribe. . . It is charged in the statement that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Abbott visited the tribe of Indians in company with a representative of a Standard Oil newspaper, took said Standard Oil spy into the secret councils of the Osage Indians and opposed the making of the lease to the Uncle Sam Oil Co. Mr. Abbott was before the committee, active in making defense to these charges and yet did not dare deny that he took this Standard Oil spy with him on a mission to the Indian council in secret and opposed the making of the lease to the Uncle Sam Oil Co. . . . . In another item of interest is Bacon Rind's claim that half of Pawhuska's residents were lawyers "trying to get money from the Indians. If an Indian dies, they go and make a law suit, or an Indian makes a will giving the money to another one and they kill the Indian about a week afterwards." Source: books.google.com/books?id=QE42an8nupUC&pg=PA321&lpg=PA321#v=onepage&q&f=true
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Post by jones on Feb 4, 2018 13:55:14 GMT -5
Bacon Rind's May 13th, 1926 wedding announcement to Lizzie Ne-Ho-Jah says "The ceremony was performed by District Judge L.A. Justus in his office, and Mrs. Louise (spelling error?) Shangreau, a daughter of Bacon Rind, acted as interpreter." It is the name Shangreau that has me puzzled. I'm familiar with the Shangreau-Sioux connection, but I'm ccurrious about this Osage connection. Are the Osage and Sioux Shangreau families related? There was a film-maker named Lily E. Shangreaux who was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation and she might have an Osage connection (but I'm not sure about that). She was co-producer/writer for The Great American Foot Race (aired on PBS IN 2002), and she made a documentary about "Osage Murders" pertaining to the oil leases on the Osage Reservation in the early 1900s, but that doesn't mean she actually had Osage ancestry. I also have 2001copy of an obituary for Edward William Shangreau of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, the son of Edward Louis Shangreau. It says Edward Louis Shangreau died on March 31, 1982, and I've wondered if there is a connection to Bacon Rind's daughter there.
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Post by jones on Feb 4, 2018 12:27:35 GMT -5
Most histories say Bacon Rind was born in 1860, but others say 1853 or 1854. I have a copy of his May 13, 1926 wedding announcement to his second wife (a Kaw Indian & sister to Forrest Chouteau) and it gives his age as 72. The following piece (linked below) says he was born in 1853. books.google.com/books?id=2fvfkPErXawC&pg=PA289#v=onepage&q&f=true
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Post by jones on Jan 14, 2018 12:53:01 GMT -5
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Jan 7, 2018 21:04:29 GMT -5
Post by jones on Jan 7, 2018 21:04:29 GMT -5
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Post by jones on Dec 24, 2017 19:18:44 GMT -5
The link pasted below will take you to a 1859 map of Kansas when the western border of the state was the continental divide. The map has an inset at the bottom that shows the whole state. If you select "zoom to" 50% and "size" 640 x 480 and click on the notch in the southwest corner of the state (between New Mexico and Kansas) you will get a good view of Sand Creek, Bent's old fort and Bent's new fort. specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/maps/detailsframes.asp?offset=40&var=1859-0005
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Post by jones on Dec 4, 2017 19:12:44 GMT -5
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Post by jones on Nov 10, 2017 18:24:41 GMT -5
Here is a link to Charles Bird King's portrait of the Oto warrior & half-chief, Ietan (prairie wolf) painted in 1821 and housed at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. Ietan was reportedly the son of the Oto Chief Shonga-tonga "Big Horse". www.joslyn.org/post/sections/56/Files/king_charles_bird(2).jpgKing donated his own copy of Ietan to the White House, and it is one of the four Indian portraits by King that flanks the doorway inside the White House Library. The following narration of Ietan's martial acts is also from "Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains" (1819-20) books.google.com/books?id=te0MAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232#v=onepage&q&f=trueAfter lashing the post and making his threat, Ietan went on to narrate his martial exploits. He had stolen horses seven or eight times from the Konzas (Kaws); he had first struck the bodies of three of that nation slain in battle, and had struck one of their dead. He had stolen horses from the Ietan (Comanche) nation, and had struck one of their dead. He had stolen horses from the Pawnees, and struck the body of one Pawnee Loup. He had stolen horses several times from the Omawhaws, and once from the Puncas. He had struck the bodies of two Sioux. On a war party, in company with the Pawnees, he had attacked the Spaniards and penetrated into one of their camps; the Spaniards, excepting a man and boy, fled; himself being at a distance before his party, he was shot at and missed by the man, whom he immediately shot down and struck. "This, my father", said he, "is the only martial act of my life that I am ashamed of."
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Post by jones on Nov 10, 2017 16:59:30 GMT -5
Many customs of the plains Indians were similar despite differences in language, architecture and nomadic habits.
ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM PITTSBURGH TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819, 1820 (Major Long's expedition) It is not the mere shooting down of an enemy that confers great honor upon a warrior: this, the Indians say, can be done by any person, however cowardly he may be. But high distinction is due to the gallant soul, that advances upon the field of battle, and captures an enemy, or who first strikes, or even touches the body of a fallen enemy, in presence of the friends of the deceased, who are generally watching their opportunity to revenge his death. This is, indeed, an extraordinary proof of courage, and as the act is not to be accomplished without the greatest hazard of life; the adventurer is obliged to expose himself, often, to a great number of assailants, besides the danger of falling into ambush, in attempting to strike the decoy. It is this striking, that is numbered amongst their war feats by warriors, at their dances. The capture of a prisoner confers the highest honor on the captor. Striking an enemy, whilst active, appears to be second in rank, of their great martial achievements. Striking his dead, or disabled body, confers the third honour. Capturing a horse may be regarded as the fourth; presenting a horse to any person, the fifth, and shooting, or otherwise killing an enemy, by a missile, is the sixth in point of rank of military deeds, in estimation of the Omawhaws. The taking of a scalp is merely evidence of what has been done, and, of itself, seems to confer no honor.
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Sept 27, 2017 22:14:50 GMT -5
Post by jones on Sept 27, 2017 22:14:50 GMT -5
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