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Post by emilylevine on Jun 10, 2009 22:34:00 GMT -5
Has any one read this edition of The Journals and Papers of Father Francis M. Craft, 1888-1890 edited by Thomas W. Foley?
Josephine Waggoner writes about Craft and his "Sioux Sisterhood," so I've been researching him. (Waggoner, of course, reveals a side of him and the Lakota nuns that has not been written about before.) I read Foley's biography of Craft and found it interesting. How could one resist it with a chapter entitled "Was Father Craft Insane?" Craft really is a fascinating guy.
At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee is published by the Arthur H. Clark, certainly a reputable western press (now affiliated with OU Press), so I was surprised to see that the annotations in the book are really pretty dreadful. The journals themselves will be important reading for those of us interested in Standing Rock history; all the well known characters and names are mentioned. But the footnotes, usually just one short line, range from inaccurate:
"Martin Kenel, OSB, superintendent of the mission school at Fort Yates from 1884 to 1906," "Pizi is the Lakota name for John Grass," "Titonwan" is defined as "The Titonwan dialect of the Teton Sioux" while Isanati [sic] is "the dialect of the Santee," Louise Van Solen's mother is misidentified
to incomplete:
"Hampton School" is footnoted only as "The Indian boarding school in Hampton, Va." People are defined by one line often mischaracterizing their long, complicated and rich lives: "Theophile Brughier, an early pioneer in DT." "Grey Eagle served as a judge on Standing Rock Reservation in 1893." "George Flying By, first Lieutenant of McLaughlin's Indian Police in 1892." What's the point if that's all you're going to say? Even Eagle Woman Who All Look At is simply "a full-blooded Sioux, whose first husband was Henore [sic] Picotte, an Indian trader from St. Louis, Mo."
to culturally insulting: "'Winkte' is the Lakota term for 'heart of a woman,' so Winkte-yuza may have been a male transvestite..." "The visions of heyoka (free spirits within a tribe) led them to express themselves in a clownish world of 'contraries,' wearing strange clothing, living in ragged lodges, sleeping without robes and blankets..." (Nothing about their power, where it comes from, the "spiritual" nature of lives.)
These are just a few examples.
What is odd is that all of this issues are easily corrected, the information is readily available. One has to wonder who Clark/Oklahoma Press sent the manuscript to for review. It's unfortunate that what I think will be a significant contribution to this particular area of Lakota history is so flawed in this way.
(I have yet to read what he says about Wounded Knee, but I have heard he "offers a bold reinterpretation of that event as a genuine battle rather than a massacre.")
All this said, we owe a debt of gratitude to Foley for his life-long obsession with Craft and his determination to publish his works and about his life.
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Post by emilylevine on Jun 9, 2009 21:13:46 GMT -5
From a footnote I'm working on (draft) regarding Little Six and Medicine Bottle: Little Six’s fate was much more bizarre. In 1864, he and another Mdewakaŋtoŋ participant in the uprising were captured in Canada by trickery and by drugging them by plying them with copious quantities of laudanum laced alcohol, binding them, and forcefully—and illegally—transporting them back to the United States. A trial found them guilty, although legal wrangling concerning their extralegal capture and kidnapping eventually went all the way to President Andrew Johnson who confirmed their convictions. Little Six and Medicine Bottle also known as Rustling Wind Walker (Big Eagle’s brother) were hung at Fort Snelling on November 11, 1865 while a crowd of thousands [??] watched. The drugging and kidnapping of these two Dakota men is told in Alan R. Woolworth, “A Disgraceful Proceeding: Intrigue in the Red River Country in 1864.” James A. Howard gives Medicine Bottle an additional name, “T’ate Ic’asna Mani ‘Wind Rustling Walker’ ” in The Canadian Sioux, 28.
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Post by emilylevine on Jun 9, 2009 17:20:12 GMT -5
Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference Location: Oldfather Hall, UNL City Campus, Lincoln
The Conference is hosted by the Department of Anthropology June 11-14 in Oldfather Hall. There will be papers and presentations by an international group of linguists, graduate students, and native language instruction programs. The conference is open to the public with a $20 registration fee.
Contact Info More information available from local organizer. Call 402-472-3455 or write mawakuni-swetland2@unl.edu.
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Post by emilylevine on Jun 8, 2009 21:15:43 GMT -5
Birthday greetings to Ephriam and LaDonna---with thanks for sharing your knowledge. Emily
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Post by emilylevine on Jun 5, 2009 8:07:46 GMT -5
Besides Bettelyoun, what does the oral history from Rosebud say about this fight?
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Post by emilylevine on Jun 4, 2009 22:43:13 GMT -5
should be an easy question though over here for the brulé experts any other idea on the brulé leaders for the pawnee expedition? Bettelyoun/Waggoner say the Brules were led by Two Strike
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Post by emilylevine on Jun 4, 2009 21:55:30 GMT -5
The 1873 buffalo hunt? A Sichangu Chief Snowflake??? I've not heard of a Snow Flake involved. I was just doing some work on that fight today. There's no mention of Snow Flake in Paul D. Riley's 1973 Nebraska History article or in the Blaine's Pawnee account in their ""Pa-Re-Su A-Ri-Ra-Ke: The Hunters that Were Massacred" in Nebraska History (Fall 1977). There was an entire issue devoted to Massacre Canyon---vol. 16, no. 3, 1935, but I don't seem to have that one. (The NSHS is closed for renovation so I'm not going anytime soon or I would be able to poke around more about this.) I would say if it's not in vol. 16---if someone has it they could check--it's unlikely. Why have none of us heard of him and why isn't he appearing in any other accounts of the fight. Not mentioned in Hyde's Spotted Tail's Folk in his discussion of the incident. I believe both Spotted Tail and Little Wound were on this hunt. Also, Bettelyoun doesn't mention him in the information that she gave to Josephine Waggoner. Sky Chief was the Pawnee leader. I think the number of Lakota warriors quoted as being involved is crazy high. OK, that's my 2 cents worth. I'll be curious as to what else can be found about him.
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Post by emilylevine on Jun 3, 2009 22:20:07 GMT -5
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Post by emilylevine on Jun 2, 2009 12:28:40 GMT -5
Thanks Hin. This is a nice collection.
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Post by emilylevine on May 29, 2009 18:03:35 GMT -5
Hello. I am Emily Levine---from Nebraska. I am a horticulturist and a historian who has been a student of Great Plains native history and culture since childhood. You may know me from my edition of the Bettelyoun/Waggoner manuscript, With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History.Currently, I am working on editing another manuscript by Josephine Waggoner. This one consists of two sections (My Land, My People, My Story and Lives of the Chiefs). I have been given original holographic and typescript materials, poems, and photographs by Josephine's family and entrusted to do this work. I feel a heavy responsibility, but it is a great honor and privilege. I hope to do her justice. The last book took ten years of evenings and weekends; I hope to have this one done sooner---especially as some of the family members are quite elderly. Right now the manuscript is over 400 pages plus over 100 pages of my explanatory notes. Because I have a "regular" job, this work must fit in around that. I discovered this forum while conducting research for the notes---and the LBHA boards as well. I cannot express how meaningful this forum has become for me, a lifeline to a community as I work on Waggoner's book. I am so impressed by the knowledge to be found here. You all know so much it blows me away. And the willingness to share is extraordinary. Also, the kind and courteous demeanor, even in the face of sometimes ignorant or misinformed people, is a pleasant change from other forums where there is a degeneration into nastiness that I just can't stand. But here, it seems that everyone is helping each other learn. I am especially taken by the make up of the members; the interchange between native and Anglo/European/American. My experience has been that there is at times an unnecessary (albeit, sometimes understandable) breakdown between native and non native in this sort of endeavor. The recent exchange between Aurelia, Ephriam, Kingsley, and Dietmar in the Sans Arc thread is an example of of this spirit. Honestly, it kind of chokes me up. Each group--and those who belong to both--has so much to offer. Each group possesses necessary information, vital to obtain a full whole view. I like the European input and have not felt any of the romaticizing of Indians that sometimes can be found especially there. I have not had time to look at much besides the L/Dakota threads and the general info, but I imagine there's just as much impressive material and good spirit. Jinlian's Crow stuff is really something. There are times when I think to share a source I use or have recently discovered, but I fear you all probably already know about it. I do want to share. And there are discussions on these boards that call out for Waggoner's voice (via her manuscript), but I am leery of just cutting and pasting and posting her words out of concern for her and her family. She has been ripped off a lot and once something is out there in the internet ether, there's no way to control how other people will use it. I'm not thinking of members here, but those who might just stumble onto it. I am very protective of her work. That said, I have and will continue to post small bits of info from her, and certainly if anyone has any specific questions or is looking for specific info, let me know and I'll see if there is anything in the manuscript to pass along. Conversely, I have read a lot of useful information here and would like to use some of it, so I may be contacting individual members to obtain permission. I am also generating a list of questions to post here that have arisen doing my research on the explanatory notes. I hope you all can help me out on some things. I am especially in awe of the photographs that members have located and posted! I thought I had a fairly broad knowledge, and am surprised by how much more is out there than what I knew about. I sure wish folks would cite the sources of their photographs (as well and written material). I realize this is not much of an introduction of myself, but more of a rambling gush about the forum... I've been a groundskeeper most of my adult life...quit for a while and went to school where I got a degree in Great Plains Studies (I'm a Prairie Girl...), spent 3 years working in the archives at the Nebraska State Historical Society, but had to get back outside. I'm sending Dietmar a photo of me to post with this; it's me at Kadlecek's ranch on Beaver Creek in the beautiful Pine Ridge country of northwest Nebraska. (Yes, I'm making a scowling "don't take my picture face). Thanks to all of you for what you have built here. Mitakuye oyasin Emily
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Post by emilylevine on May 17, 2009 12:01:22 GMT -5
REGARDING CROW FEATHER AND THE PIPE WRITTEN ABOUT BY THE NY TIMES: (that Kingsley and Ephriam were discussing on this thread this past December)
This may provide a possible explanation as to what pipe the Times was writing about. It comes from a two-page, incomplete, handwritten manuscript titled "Biography of Crow Feather." Referring, I believe, to the man you are calling Crow Feather II. I found it in a file of assorted Lakota related things in the Weideman Collection at the SD State Archives. It may have been written by Samuel Charger.
"...He was about 18 years old when he built the cabin or in the year 1824, and he made a pipe which was used by the war parties in later years and which is regarded as secondary to the original peace pipe, this pipe is said in the early days regard [sic] as sacred and is always tied to a pole, and is set on some hill away from the camp.... ....built the log cabin in which he performs his ceremonies and as he is the first Indian to manufacture a lead [?] pipe, [here the manuscript ends!]
The ms. also says that Crow Feather was a recognized medicine man. I am thinking it is likely that the pipe was passed on to the son and that this may be the pipe in question. Any thoughts?
Josephine Waggoner writes about the man you call Crow Feather III: She says he was born in 1842, died June 18, 1919.
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Post by emilylevine on May 16, 2009 10:18:28 GMT -5
Galler has another article published on the Yanktonai last year: "Making Common Cause: Yanktonais and Catholic Missionaries on the Northern Plains," in Ethnohistory, 2008, 55 (3) 439-464. I'm working on Mad Bear and came across it. Trying to figure out why Waggoner identifies him as "Hunkpatina band of the UPPER Yanktonais" (not lower). Maybe just a slip...
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Post by emilylevine on May 12, 2009 15:18:33 GMT -5
Hi all I'm looking for a copy of John S. Gray's "Peace Talkers From Standing Rock Agency" published in the Chicago Westerners Brand Book, 23 (May 1966), pp.17-29. I would be happy to pay for photocopying and postage. The article concerns Long Feather and Bear Face facilitating the meeting between Sitting Bull and Miles in Oct. 1876. Any help would be appreciated. THANKS, Emily
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Post by emilylevine on May 2, 2009 8:28:36 GMT -5
Yes, their mistake---in whatever book that is. Whew. Also, the more I look at it, the more I think that it IS Tackett in the upper right.
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Post by emilylevine on May 2, 2009 8:01:07 GMT -5
I didn't think that it looked like Tackett----I know of another photo or two of him, so I'll compare those as well. Thanks. Great job getting those names on the side...
Here's a bad revelation: I think my caption is wrong... I think Tackett was Spotted Tail's SON in law. He left Susan for Spotted Tail's daughter Red Road. I hate when I make mistakes. (see page 130 in With My Own Eyes).
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