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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 18, 2014 2:33:22 GMT -5
Feather Earring and the Miniconjou connection.
There is a table of Lakota bands printed in the F.V. Hayden report, Contributions to the Ethnography and Philology of the Indians of the Upper Missouri, published by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia in 1862. Internal evidence suggests that the list itself was produced about 1857 or 1858. It includes the Miniconjou band Inyanha-owin, Musselshell Earrings, and gives the name of the contemporary chief as Feather Earrings. I presume this man is the 'father' of the Feather Earrings who was in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Dog with Horns, killed early on in the Reno fight at Little Bighorn, was the younger brother of Feather Earrings II.
The possible White Bull relationship to which you allude is new information to me, kakarns. But it makes perfect sense because my own friends at Cheyenne River said that White Bull and his family belonged to the Musselshell Earrings band. This detail is also confirmed in the Stanley Vestal (Walter S. Campbell) interviews with White Bull, now accessible online.
The Spotted Elk (i.e. Big Foot) connection is also tantalizing. According to Josephine Waggoner Spotted Elk belonged to the Musselshell Earrings band.
The interview conducted by Donald Collier in 1939 with Miniconjou Walks Out has some pertinent details. Walks Out, born c. 1858+, was the son of Charging Crow; he noted that his mother's brother (so he called him 'uncle', lekshi) was Feather Earring, who had a son of the same name. The family was wealthy, the elder FE owning 50 horses. In an aside, Walks Out also identified the Miniconjou head chief Lone Horn as another of his mother's 'brothers'. I am sure that Feather Earrings and Lone Horn were not 'brothers' in the European sense, but obviously a connection. And Lone Horn was a close kinsman of Spotted Elk(father, or elder brother who adopted the orphaned Spotted Elk and raised him?).
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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 18, 2014 2:35:38 GMT -5
Transcribing a Kansas City National Archives document, a Pine Ridge beef record from about 1889 - there's no date on it. Here is one beef issue group of 31 people:
Thunder Bull 5 [people] Ralph Old Horse 3 Wolfskin Belt 3 White Coat 2 Lone Man 3 Jumping Up 4 Young Bull Bear 4 Star 2 Charging Eagle 2 Iron Horse 3 [Total] 31
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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 18, 2014 2:45:32 GMT -5
1890 Pine Ridge census, Kunhinyan band, Medicine Root Dist.
Frank Feather age 27 Runs Along the Edge wife 23 Red Earth Nation daughter 6 Her Good Road daughter 5 John son 3 no name son 1
household counted between Ralph Old Horse's and Wolfskin Belt's.
So it looks like Frank Feather Earrings was born about 1862-63, a younger son of Miniconjou headman Feather Earrings. He married about 1882-83, age about 20, a girl from a prominent Kiyaksa/Kuhinyan band family at Pine Ridge Agency. He settled with his wife's folks.
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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 18, 2014 3:01:31 GMT -5
kakarns, what is the Moses One Feather connection to your family?
I have found something about Moses that is very interesting.
Do you know if there is a relation to Gerald One Feather, the former Pine Ridge Tribal Chairman? I met Gerald last fall in Rapid City but we didn't talk history unfortunately.
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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 18, 2014 4:11:40 GMT -5
Transcribing a Kansas City National Archives document, a Pine Ridge beef record from about 1889 - there's no date on it. Here is another beef issue group of 31 people
Sitting Bear 6 [people] David Wolf Shed Hair 5 Frank Feather 6 Yellow Wolf 4 Bear Clown 2 Bear Runner 3 Chas Two Tails 2 Hawk 3 [total] 31
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Post by kakarns on Apr 18, 2014 22:16:46 GMT -5
Kingsley, Thank you very much for your input on my most recent post concerning the Frank Feather family. It will take me a while to digest all of your postings. Some good information. kakarns, what is the Moses One Feather connection to your family? I have found something about Moses that is very interesting. Do you know if there is a relation to Gerald One Feather, the former Pine Ridge Tribal Chairman? I met Gerald last fall in Rapid City but we didn't talk history unfortunately. Re: Moses One Feather My family believes that "All Holy" aka, "All Of It" and also, possibly aka, "All Over" - one of the wives of Charging Eagle was previously married to a "One Feather". One Feather and All Holy had son, "Moses One Feather" and a daughter named "Yellow Cedar". Therefore, in English terms, Moses One Feather was a step son to Charging Eagle. Unfortunately, I do not know anything about "Gerald One Feather" but, I do recognize the name. kakarns
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Post by kakarns on Apr 19, 2014 7:41:27 GMT -5
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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 19, 2014 9:12:25 GMT -5
Kim, In an way I don't entirely understand yet, there is a close family connection between Moses One Feather and the Crow Feathers, a very prominent chiefly family of the Sans Arcs division of the Lakota.
I have courtesy of a Crow Feather descendant a number of their family papers, including a 1921 Report On Heirship following the death of ANOTHER Moses One Feather. He died age 77 (born c. 1842) on June 18, 1919. He is noted as Cheyenne River Allotment no. 295, Annuity Roll no. 367. The report notes his allotment and then goes on to note his "Inherited Interests" in another allotment CR Allotment, no. 3127, belonging to Her Running Horse. However, this latter allotment is deleted in the document, and a handwritten note reads: "It was Moses One Feather Roman Nose PR-4357 who inherited in Al. 3127 - See file 3127". I do not have access to a copy of the file alluded. PR-4357 refers to the Pine Ridge Allotment no. of Moses One Feather Roman Nose. In other words the latter is a different Moses One Feather, though clearly related. How so?
The Pine Ridge Moses One Feather Roman Nose: your doc's show that he was born about 1854 (12 years younger than the Cheyenne River Moses One Feather) and that he died in 1941.
Ok, anything you can do to shed light on the above would be great. What can I say? The great chief Crow Feather was born late in the 18th c., my best guess would be about 1790. He died in 1858 or early 1859. He was recognized as the head chief of the Sans Arcs for much of the period 1825 until his death. When he died had no adult sons living. The seemingly eldest son had his father's name, was born about 1840. At the treaty of Ft Sully in 1865 he was recognized as his father's successor by the tribe and the treaty commission. He is noted as living or visiting at Grand River Agency in 1869, and at Cheyenne River Agency in 1870. However he died there later the same year. He was succeeded nominally by his brother One Feather - this is the Moses One Feather who died at Cheyenne River in 1919. He was recognized as the head chief, and known as Crow Feather, noted as head chief at e.g. the Black Hills councils near Red Cloud Agency in 1875.But he apparently played no real role in tribal politics. He had two younger brothers (Louis and Rawhide Crow Feather) and a sister Her Pipe, all born about 1850, all died about 1880 - according to this heirship file.
Ok, hope this helps. Any questions I will try to answer - but I don't understand the exact relationship of the Pine Ridge Moses One Feather to the Cheyenne River Moses One Feather. Maybe you can follow up the heirship/probate route? I'm fascinated as well!!
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Post by kingsleybray on Apr 19, 2014 9:23:20 GMT -5
Is Moses One Feather's mother All Holy the same as Her Holy Robe, born c. 1828? She appears with no husband in her family in the household next to Little Wound and his sons in the Kunhinyan band census, Medicine Root Dist., 1890.
Working idea: she is from the Kiyuksa Oglalas, possibly a close relative of Little Wound (also born c. 1828, son of Bull Bear), married One Feather I, a Sans Arc relative of the Crow Feather family, about 1850. Their son was Moses One Feather of Pine Ridge, born about 1854. She is divorced, widowed, whatever, comes back to her natal band the Kiyuksa Oglalas and remarries there to Charging Eagle.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 21, 2014 16:25:23 GMT -5
P.S.S. How does one advance to the next level as far as status ? I've been a Junior Member for ever ! LOL You are almost at the next level. Several more posts will put you into three digits, but it will take a long time before you progress from there!
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Post by kakarns on Apr 22, 2014 5:29:32 GMT -5
Thank you Diane for your response. I was just curious.
kakarns
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Post by kakarns on Apr 22, 2014 5:58:54 GMT -5
Kingsley,
I hope to find some time soon to review my notes, etc. on Crow Feather. Researching this family is, perhaps the most difficult research I have came across. Very confusing to say the least.
It does not help that I know nothing about Charging Eagle's parents. I have never found anything researching the names that have been given to me. This leaves a big hole in making other family connections.
Re: All Holy
Several clues lead to the good possibility of All Holy being aka, Her Holy Robe.
I will write more later.
Thanks, kakarns
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Post by kakarns on Oct 6, 2014 5:05:30 GMT -5
Research 10-6-14:
"List of persons employed in the Indian Agency Service on June 30, 1899, under the provisions of the act of July 1, 1898, and other laws noted---Continued" pg. 608
Listed under: Pine Ridge, SD (a)/"Indians"
I found several relatives listed as employees. These are just a few: Robert Horse - Laborer - Salary 240 Frank Feather - Butcher - Salary 120 Spotted Elk - Asst. Butcher - Salary 60
Refer: "United States Congressional serial set, Issue 3915"
kakarns
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Post by kakarns on Oct 10, 2014 5:46:28 GMT -5
Is there a thread on the Boards which contains information about; "Shot In The Eye" (aka), "White Mountain" (aka) "Ista Ogna Opi" ?
If so, can someone please guide me in that direction ?
Thanks, kakarns
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Post by grahamew on Oct 11, 2014 4:25:53 GMT -5
The Shot in the Eye also known as Bear Runs Fearless/ Brave Bear? The father of Sword?
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