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Post by jones on Aug 8, 2017 18:21:23 GMT -5
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Post by jones on Aug 7, 2017 15:56:09 GMT -5
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI At my suggestion, our nearest public library purchased this book, and I finished reading it a few weeks ago. I was amazed at the unbridled treachery (cold-blooded murder) the Osage experienced at the hands of greedy ranchers, corrupt law men, politicians and judges. Even the Governor of Oklahoma was a part of the scheming to steal oil leases from the Osage. I've read very few books so well researched. www.amazon.com/Killers-Flower-Moon-Osage-Murders/dp/0385534248
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Post by jones on Aug 7, 2017 14:20:49 GMT -5
Somebody from an earlier generation in my family attended a 101 Ranch exhibition and collected picture postcards that are now among my family's collection of memorabilia, so I wondered if Sampson Kelly might have been involved with the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. link to 101 Ranch poster www.101ranchota.com/images/101RanchWildWest_big.gifExcerpts from www.101ranchota.com/history.htmlHistory of the 101 Ranch By Al Ritter Featuring at least 200 local cowboys, ranch hands and Indians, arrangements were made to have the imprisoned frontier warrior Geronimo brought to the ranch under military guard from Fort Sill, O.T. With assistance, the aging warrior killed a buffalo in the arena from a motorcar, signed autographs and sold souvenirs. Among other larger than life promotions, the Millers advertised in area newspapers they would offer a $1000 prize to anyone who would submit to being scalped by Geronimo. More than 65,000 people attended the long afternoon of events of June 11, 1905 and overflow crowds easily filled a huge grandstand built for the event. Performing ranch honed skills, cowboys and cowgirls paraded that huge grandstand on the south side of the Salt Fork River along with vividly costumed Ponca, Kaw, Otoe, Missouri, Tonkawa, Pawnee and Osage Indians, marching bands, soldiers and Geronimo. Along with Geronimo’s mock ‘buffalo hunt’, trick riding, bucking horses and a performance by the bulldogging ‘Dusky Demon’ from Texas, Bill Pickett, the evening ended with an unannounced frontier style wagon train attack by Indian performers. The remarkable performance gained national attention and brought the 101 Ranch into the venue of thrilling western entertainment. So successful was the show, Colonel Joe Miller and his brothers formed the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and began to tour the United States. They joined the ranks of such notables of that era which included Buffalo Bill’s Congress of Rough Riders, Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show and P.T. Barnum as well as a myriad of smaller circuses and western shows touring the U.S.
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Post by jones on Apr 16, 2017 18:36:06 GMT -5
Review: 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' by David GrannNONFICTION: New Yorker writer David Grann delves into mysterious killings on the oil-rich Osage reservation in Oklahoma in the 1920s. APRIL 14, 2017
In the 1870s, the Osage Indians were forced off their land in Kansas — land they had been forced onto just a few decades earlier. This time, they were sent to live on a rocky, arid reservation in Oklahoma. The new land was barren, the buffalo had been depleted, and the Indians began to starve. And then someone discovered oil.
Money poured in. Prospectors paid the Osage for oil leases and royalties, and by the start of the 20th century every member of the tribe was receiving healthy quarterly checks. They built magnificent houses, bought cars, hired servants. Suddenly, the Oklahoma Osage were among the richest people in the world. But wherever there are Indians with anything — land, animals and, especially, money and oil rights — there are white people ready to fleece them. David Grann’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” tells the horrifying story of mass murder in Gray Horse, Okla. Over a period of five years in the 1920s, more than two dozen Osage Indians were killed — poisoned, shot, blown up, hit by cars — for their money and oil rights. . . In the early 1920s, Osage Indians began dying in so many unusual ways and in such high numbers that the tribe dubbed it the Siege of Terror.
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Post by jones on Feb 23, 2017 16:54:09 GMT -5
www.marysvilleonline.net/family_living/article_8ed83d12-f921-11e6-99aa-1b80acb504b0.html?mode=image&photo=1www.marysvilleonline.net/family_living/article_8ed83d12-f921-11e6-99aa-1b80acb504b0.htmlMarysville Advocate, Marysville, Marshall County Kansas February 22, 2017 by Sarah Kessinger (editor) When Chief Standing Bear was forced by hunger and at gunpoint in the mid-1800s to leave his beloved homeland in Nebraska, he would walk with Northern Ponca tribal members through southeast Nebraska and into Marshall County en route to Indian Territory in what is Oklahoma today. A rail trail recently completed from Beatrice, Neb., to the Kansas state line just south of Barneston has been named the Chief Standing Bear Trail. The Ponca Tribe last year became owners of the 23-mile stretch of former railbed now used by cyclists and hikers. It is cared for by the Homestead Conservation and Trail Association, based in Beatrice. Interpretive signs that tell the Ponca story are to be posted along the route. The trail connects with the Blue River Rail Trail at the state line in northern Marshall County. Standing Bear’s trail of tears is told in the documentary “Standing Bear’s Footsteps,” which was shown Saturday at the Homestead National Monument of America just west of Beatrice (Nebraska). The documentary describes the Ponca Nation’s exile from Nebraska and the tragic journey to Indian Territory, where malaria killed a third of Standing Bear’s tribe, including his son. To honor his son’s dying wish, the chief took his body 600 miles back to Nebraska for burial on ancestral grounds. While there, he was arrested for leaving the reservation and jailed at Fort Omaha. The result was a landmark court case in which Standing Bear would challenge the U.S. government’s contention that Indians were not entitled to the full rights of white men. The chief was represented pro bono in court by two top attorneys for the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha. Religious leaders of Omaha also rallied around him. At the time, the documentary notes, the Ponca were considered wards of the government and were expected to think of the president as their “great father.” Yet an Indian had no standing as a person under federal law. A newspaper reporter brought the chief’s plight to the nation’s attention, pointing out the double standards in law. The case would eventually end in Standing Bear’s favor. (photo of Standing Bear and full article linked above)
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Post by jones on Sept 17, 2016 12:26:09 GMT -5
Is it possible that the stereoview photograph was made during the UPRR excursion of 1866? The guest on that train ride were entertained by mock battles &c. It was one of the earliest so-called "Wild West Shows". I learned of it from Richard Gould. He may be able to add some insight. amertribes.proboards.com/thread/495/pawnee-informationGreetings from the Pawnee Indian Museum near Republic, Kansas I will periodically add Pawnee photographs from our collections. If there are any qustions about the Pawnees I may be able to help with our research sources. Richard Gould, Administrator PS hello Dietmar! ........ UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD EXCURSION TO THE 100th MERIDIAN, October 1866 Arrowing west from Omaha City in Nebraska Territory, the Union Pacific Railroad was a full year ahead of its construction schedule. Planning to have 247 miles of track in place by the end of 1867, they had reached that point by October 1866. To advertise this incredible progress to the shareholders as well as Eastern bankers and members of Congress, the Directors of the co,pant planned an elaborate and costly celebration to take place in the middle of the wilderness. . . John Carbutt, the noted Chicago photographer and stereoview publisher had been hired by the Union Pacific to document the entire affair, so it was here that he and his assistant, Mr. Hines, loaded their cumbersome photographic supplies onto the train. . . The train was stopped on a high embackment overlooking the Pawnee camp for the morning's entertainment-- this time a sham battle. The Pawmee braves, disguised as Sioux warriors, attempted to creep up on the camp but were discovered. With shrieks and cries of vengeance, the Pawnees went on the attack. . . One last surprise entertainment had been arranged to enliven the trip back to Omaha--a Prairie Fire! The flames extended in an unbroken line for 15 to 20 miles and one end of this holocaust was so near the party could feel the heat as the flames roared over the plains. . . The most extensive collections of Carbutt's Excursion views are those of the Union Pacific Archives in Omaha and the President Hayes Library in Fremont, Ohio. ...... THE GOLDEN AGE OF WESTERN PHOTOGRAPHY 1858--1875 Hamilton with various partners and individuals named Hamilton (C.L. Hamilton, J.H. Hamilton, Hamilton and Hoyt, Hamilton and Kodlylek) and studios in Nebraska and Iowa.
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Post by jones on Aug 4, 2016 20:20:40 GMT -5
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Post by jones on Aug 4, 2016 20:16:07 GMT -5
dianec Jun 15, 2011 at 9:27am QuotePost by dianec on Jun 15, 2011 at 9:27am If my memory serves me well, the "NO-PA-WY KAW Indian bark house" picture is a W.S.Prettyman photograph. I think? William Least Heat-Moon identified the people standing in front of the Kaw bark lodge in his PrairyErth: A Deep Map books.google.com/books?id=UNkPAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT594&lpg=PT594#v=onepage&q&f=truePrairyErth: A Deep Map By William Least Heat-Moon In the Smithsonian Institution archives, there is a cracked, glass plate photograph of a traditional Kaw bark house . . . the house is large and
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Post by jones on May 13, 2016 13:49:47 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/13/ancient-tools-and-bone-found-in-florida-could-help-rewrite-the-story-of-the-first-americans/The ancient tools and bone are 14,550 years old, they reported Friday in the journal Science Advances, making them the most ancient human remnants ever found in the southeastern United States. The researchers say the find is unequivocal proof that people were in Florida more than 1,000 years earlier than anyone had imagined — a discovery that could help rewrite the history of humans on the continent. . . The age given for the tusk didn't fit that paradigm, other scientists said — the ice-free corridor wouldn't even have been open yet. . . and since the ice free corridor wasn't open yet, obviously there are a lot implications for getting people down from the interior of Alaska," Jenkins said. . . It seems likely that the first Americans sailed down the Pacific coast . . . From there, they may have followed America's river systems to the other side of the continent, or trekked across Central America at its narrowest point and sailed up into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Post by jones on May 7, 2016 16:16:55 GMT -5
<< we are still here and we are alive >> -ladonna www.wildapache.net/NativeAmericanSite/pages/NApopulation.htmlNATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES POPULATION RANKINGS Native American Population: 1,878,285 = 100.0 % *This information was obtained from the US Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census Washington, D.C. 20233 Tribes with more than 1,000 members, listed by State U.S. Census Bureau press release on Native American Tribal populations
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Post by jones on May 6, 2016 17:31:43 GMT -5
<< Tipi in question attributed to White Swan was actually a Blackfoot man's. >> -rodthomas W.S. Campbell was in disagreement with Catlin as to the ornamentation on the Crow tipi, but Maximilian, who visited the same tribes shortly after Catlin, seems to agree with Catlin. The greatest difference in opinion between Catlin and Maximilian is in the longevity of the tipi. Catlin believed they could last 100 years, but Maximilian said one year. The tipi becoming "transparent, like parchment" is of interest. The link to Campbell's piece, which gives extensive construction details, should work this time. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1927.29.1.02a00060/pdfThe Tipis Of The Crow Indians By Walter Stanley Campbell Page 101: In the realistic ornamentation of their tents they are distinctly inferior to the Blackfoot. Page 103: The beauty of the Crow tipi lies not in superficial ornamentation, but in its impressive size and admirable proportions, the great length of the soaring poles, the graceful curve of the flap-poles above the smoke hole. books.google.com/books?id=oCZPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA250&lpg=PA250#v=onepage&q&f=trueTravels in the Interior of North America By Maximilian, Prince of Wied "The leather tents of the Blackfeet, their internal arrangement, and the manner of loading their dogs and horses, agree, in every respect, with those of the Sioux and Assiniboins, and all the wandering tribes of hunters of the upper Missouri. The tents, made of tanned buffalo skin, last only for one year; they are, at first, neat and white, afterwards brownish, and at the top, where the smoke issues, black, and, at last, transparent, like parchment, and very light inside. Painted tents, adorned with figures, are very seldom seen, and only a few chiefs possess them."
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Post by jones on May 5, 2016 15:19:27 GMT -5
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians by George Catlin Letter # 7 The Crows, of all the tribes in this region, or on the Continent, make the most beautiful lodge. As I have before mentioned, they construct them as the Sioux do, and make them of the same material; yet they oftentimes dress the skins of which they are composed almost as white as linen, and beautifully garnish them with porcupine quills, and paint and ornament them in such a variety of ways, as renders them exceedingly picturesque and agreeable to the eye. I have procured a very beautiful one of this description, highly-ornamented, and fringed with scalp-locks, and sufficiently large for forty men to dine under. The poles which support it are about thirty in number, of pine, and all cut in the Rocky Mountains, having been some hundred years, perhaps, in use. This tent, when erected, is about twenty-five feet high, and has a very pleasing effect; with the Great or Good Spirit painted on one side, and the Evil Spirit on the other. If I can ever succeed in transporting it to New York and other eastern cities, it will be looked upon as a beautiful and exceedingly interesting specimen. Image americanart.si.edu/images/1985/1985.66.491_1a.jpgCrow Lodge of Twenty-five Buffalo Skins 1832-1833 George Catlin ...... Crow tipi construction details linked below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1525/aa.1927.29.1.02a00060/asset/aa.1927.29.1.02a00060.pdf?v=1&t=inupsl82&s=37aa92cf67e02d2408907f6530aed2950ff8ebb5 Indeed, the Crow Tipis are remarkable for the extraordinary length of their poles.
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Post by jones on May 3, 2016 9:02:31 GMT -5
The following link describes why the Spanish & Mexican saddle was far superior to the English saddle for use in the American West and why it was the saddle of choice by William Ashley and his fur traders. There are great illustrations from early artists throughout the piece, and the frontispiece shows the Mexican Saddle, Vaquero Saddle, Sioux Pad Saddle, and the US Western Stock Saddle. Fast "grass-fed" Indian Ponies are described as well. Western Saddles before the Cowboy (page 39) Saddles of the Plains Indians (page 72) www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/HistoryTechnology/pdf_hi/SSHT-0039.pdfbooks.google.com/books?id=lqqAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43v=onepage&q&f=trueThe Indian Miscellany: Containing Papers on the History, Antiquities, Arts ... (1877) By William Wallace Beach A Ride With The Apaches [The following sketch has been prepared from the unpublished Narrative of Jose Mendivil, who was a captive of the Apaches, and became by adoption one of the tribe, remaining with them seven years.] The Apaches are in the habit of making, about once a year, a grand visit to the Zuni Indians, for the purpose of trade and talk; to hear and tell stories; occasionally, to get wives, or see a sweetheart secretly. This visit to the Zunis is an event in the Apache calendar — like a journey to some renowned city or great natural wonder — and for it they make much preparation. Their horses are fattened in advance until their coats are glossy and sleek, and they are trained daily, like racers for the racetrack, with the utmost care. Each Indian strives to make the greatest impression on his Zuni friends, by the quality of his horse, his fleetness and strength, the splendor of his trappings, and the magnificence of his rider, as well as by the value and beauty of the presents he carries with him. The trappings of a single horse sometimes have the value of hundreds of dollars. If they can obtain them, by theft or purchase, they have the richest Mexican saddles embossed with silver, and sometimes even set with gems, their bridles of the finest wrought leather, resplendent with silver ornaments, and all the adornments which the Mexican, in his luxurious taste, lavishes upon a favorite horse. ....... A brief biographical sketch of Jose Mendivil: Born December 8, 1838 Son of a Mexican geologist Mixed race Spanish, Oaxacan & Piman Captured by Apaches at the age of seven Riding with Geronimo when he escaped captivity at the age of 15 Source: mydesertmagazine.com/files/193903-DesertMagazine-1939-March.pdf(March 1939) Saga of old Picacho (page 12)
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Post by jones on May 1, 2016 19:11:58 GMT -5
Interesting article beginning on page 15: The Mexican Connection www.santafetrail.org/publications/wagon-tracks/pdf/WT_Aug-2015.pdfPage 19: Mountain Men of New Mexico & Mexican saddles adopted by cowboys. "Another New Mexican, Isador Sandoval, was the well-regarded interpreter for the Blackfoot at Fort Union. Jose Miravile was an important interpreter for the Lakota. It is worth noting that the family names of the two latter men were later rendered as Sanderville and Merrivale, making Hispanic Mexicans into French Canadians."
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Post by jones on Apr 30, 2016 14:32:06 GMT -5
<< Both Jules Shangreau's wife and Big Mouth are said to be among the children of chief Smoke, so Big Mouth and Jules would have been brothers-in-law. >> -Kingsley I'm sure that is correct. The footnotes on the page of the book linked below says Woman dress was born in 1846, which means he and Louis Shangreau were roughly the same age and were probably first cousins, grandsons of Chief Smoke. books.google.com/books?id=o9z3-nyIxH4C&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=trueThe Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History edited by Richard G. Hardorff I can't find where I got my transcription of Billy Garnett's interview, but if the copy I have was an unedited version, Billy Garnett was probably mistaken about Shangreau's relationship to Woman Dress. The book (linked below) has the unedited interview, but the part that mentions Louis Shangreau is unavailable in the preview. books.google.com/books?id=HbkHSlU1Bi0C&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74#v=onepage&q&f=trueThe Killing of Chief Crazy Horse: Three Eyewitness Views edited by Robert A. Clark, Carroll Friswold (published 1976)
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