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Post by jeroen on Jan 17, 2011 12:13:26 GMT -5
I have this man identified with an unusual name, Shooting Cat and he spent his last years on the Rosebud reservation, so he was probably Brule... Is there any additional info about him?
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Post by grahamew on Jan 17, 2011 14:39:10 GMT -5
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Post by Dietmar on Jan 19, 2011 10:18:59 GMT -5
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Post by dickmill on Feb 6, 2011 14:21:29 GMT -5
A descendant of Shooting Cat whom I recently met on other boards, who looked through this site, says the photo of Shooting Cat above doesn't resemble the Shooting Cat in a photo she obtained from the Chicago Fields. Here's her photo of Shooting Cat: Comments?
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Post by Dietmar on Feb 7, 2011 10:18:33 GMT -5
The photograph Jeroen has posted can also be found at the Smithsonian´s website: siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&uri=full=3100001~!92275~!0#focus Shooting Cat, Brule Sioux. U. S. Indian School, St Louis, Missouri 1904, by Charles H. Carpenter Photograph probably taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis Wearing hair fringe shirt and George Washington Peace Medal of 1789
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Post by Dietmar on Feb 7, 2011 10:37:07 GMT -5
Dick´s photo is also at the Smithsonian, but unidentified: siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&uri=full=3100001~!15173~!0#focus Portrait (Front) of Man 1880-1881 photo by Charles Milton Bell "Appears to be same man, wearing same clothing, as in Bell Negative 282 (S.I. 52509) (1st man, left, second row) of delegation described in Garrick Mallery, First Annual Report of the BAE, page 405 as coming to Washington, D.C. in the winter of 1880-1881."
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Post by Dietmar on May 8, 2015 9:11:20 GMT -5
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Post by gregor on May 9, 2015 2:33:47 GMT -5
Dietmar, great pictures! What medal is he wearing? King George or Washington ? Or ...? Toksha Gregor
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Post by gregor on May 9, 2015 10:29:11 GMT -5
Found it on the net, it's a George Washington Peace Medal.
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Post by Dietmar on May 12, 2015 8:33:19 GMT -5
I guess the medal was handed down in his family. Unfortunately I don´t have any information regarding his genealogy.
Somewhere in the net I have read that Shooting Cat´s other name was "The One That Runs The Tiger". Remember there was a 1872 delegate of the same name. Does anyone know more about this?
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Post by Dietmar on May 12, 2015 10:27:26 GMT -5
Shooting Cat is mentioned in: Peter Rosen´s "Pa-Ha-Sa-Pah; Or the Black Hills of South Dakota", printed in 1895: "Such dances have been common in the past. In 1884, there was the Ome-ha Wache or ching-to-ene dance; in 1875, the great Ose-che Wa-che, or Storm dance, at the Whetstone agency. This dance was repeated at Rosebud agency in the spring of 1879, and in the summer of 1880 excitement ran very high, the Indians going so far as to dig holes in the ground in order that they might protect themselves from the storm fiend. A medicine-man known as Ege-mo coo-tle or Shooting Cat prophesied a hail storm, and a very disastrous one occurred in July, killing both Indians and stock. At Fort Robinson in 1872 was held the Wa-ka Wa-che, or Holy dance, in which the Indians dance in a circle around the medicine-man, who went into a trance and answered (for a consideration) all questions asked " a sort of Sioux seance." The Jackson Catalogue lists "One Who Shoots The Tiger" as He-Gma-Wa-Ku-Wa or He-Gma-Vua-Kovah. Modern Lakota dictionaries spell the word for "cat" as Igmu. And isn´t there a trace of wakhute (to shoot) in the (probably badly translated) names above? I´m not a Lakota speaker, can someone help me out? However, here is the 1872 delegate One Who Runs The Tiger and Shooting Cat in 1904 for comparison:
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Post by grahamew on May 12, 2015 12:09:41 GMT -5
So, cat or tiger as in mountain lion?
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Post by gregor on May 13, 2015 12:49:14 GMT -5
Hi, I dont think that the Cat is the same as the Tiger. Of you look carefully The-One-who-runs-the-Tiger has a scar across his chin. And Shooting Cat has no scar. Toksha Gregor
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Post by Dietmar on May 21, 2015 15:42:52 GMT -5
I´m grateful that Lakota historian Victor Douville has send information on his ancestor Shooting Cat via Kingsley Bray:
"Kola King., I was on the proboards reading some things on Shooting Cat and viewing the comparison of a Lakota picture all dressed up in a Crow necklace and sporting a white shirt and he was compared to Shooting Cat (getty-image), taken in 1902, facing the photographer. It suddenly dawned on me that the picture of this man wearing a Crow neck piece was Crooked Foot, taken in 1872, and he is the same person seated with a treaty delegation of 1825, he is wearing a similar white shirt with braids arranged in the same manner as the one taken in 1825. He is called Igmu Wakuwa (hunting Cat) or translated literally as One who runs the Cat. Igmu can be translated as cat (a native wild cat that does not compare in size to an American pet cat). There other variety of generic names, such as-cougar, puma, mountain Lion, Nittany Lion and others that describe igmu. When the white man showed the Lakota a domesticated cat, the Lakota had to distinguish the smaller cat from the larger sized native cats, so the native cats were called igmu tanka. Prior to coming of the white man the native cats were just called igmu (puckered mouth or lips when purring). This man called Runs the Cat, who signed the Treaty of 1825, or the correct version, Hunting Cat, is the father of Shooting Cat. Hunting Cat was born 1805? and died in 1874, two years after the above picture (1872 was taken). Shooting Cat was born in 1846 and died in 1923. Our probate records shows this. Our Shooting Cat name was changed to Red Bird because Shooting Cat or his son hunted Red Birds in Canada. (My mother’s maiden name, a sister to Stanley Red, Sr., was a Red Bird and her name is Annie-named after Anna Laura Shooting Cat.) There may have been a vision obtained by Shooting Cat to hunt Red Birds, as he was a powerful medicine man, who goes sometimes goes into a trance to foretell the future. It is said that Shooting Cat had a vision requiring him to kill a female(s) as he reluctantly killed female Skidi Pawnees. Perhaps because the Pawnees, the Skidis or Scilis sacrificed a Lakota virgin to the morning star. This is the reason why Shooting Cat drew a ledger drawing of the killing two Scilis women for Falles."
Kingsley also pointed out that Victor told him the original Shooting Cat, the 1825 Brule treaty signatory was by birth a Hunkpapa (Wakan tiyospaye). He married a Brule woman (Wacheyunpa tiyospaye) at a Teton gathering in the 1790s, and went to live with her folks. So Shooting Cat in 1825 was a headman in the Wacheyunpa (Roaster) band of Brules.
Thanks to Victor Douville and Kingsley.
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Post by Dietmar on May 21, 2015 16:20:50 GMT -5
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