Post by ephriam on Mar 2, 2014 19:58:38 GMT -5
On several different threads, we have mentioned the Oyuhpe headman Black Fox and his sons: Kicking Bear, Flying Hawk and Black Fox II. Less well known is one of Black Fox's daughters named Shout At.
Born about 1842-44, she was one of a set of twin daughters of Black Fox and Iron Cedar Woman. Her Lakota name, Ash'api win has been variously translated as Shouts At, Shouted at Her, and Hoot at Her. She married Rib Man about 1871 and they raised a family during the transition to reservation life.
During the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, her and her young family were out with the non-treaty Oglala. In a reminiscences that she gave perhaps in the 1920s, she recalled being in the main Indian village at the Little Bighorn that fateful day in June 1876. She explained that she had a ten day old baby at the time and therefore could not flee with the other women and children as the Seventh Cavalry attacked. Rib Man and his family returned to the Red Cloud Agency in late 1876 or early 1877 and in the spring of 1877, he went out as a peace emissary, perhaps with George Sword. During the agencies removal in late 1877, the Rib Man family were part of the "break aways" who headed north into Canada. They later slipped back south, initially going to the Rosebud Reservation and then moving over to Pine Ridge. The family settled in among her husband's tiyospaye, Waceunpa, by 1890. Her short reminiscences was interpreted and written out by Roy Bear Nose (1899-1938), the husband of her granddaughter, and was later published in The Westerners Brand Book (Chicago, Mar. 1962). She died on Pine Ridge in 1927.
I recently found a new unpublished interview with Shout At among the field notes of Edmond S. Meany who conducted interviews on Pine Ridge in 1907 for Edward Curtis' photographic project. While this new interview does not reveal any additional information about the 1876-1881 events, she does provide a few additional details of her life. For me, one of the interesting comments is her reference to Stabber as her grandfather and that he was one of the Lakota representatives to travel to Washington, D.C. to meet the Great Father, perhaps as part of the 1851 delegation. I was not aware of any family connections between the Black Fox and Stabber families. Worth further exploration.
Anyway, here is a transcription of the short interview:
Wounded Knee
Manderson, S.D. 19 July 1907
Joseph Pourier, Interpreter
Mrs. Rib Man
Ash ah-Pi-win
61 years old
Ogalala
Her father was Black Fox. She lived as a little girl in the Black Hills.
She was never in a war party but once the Gros Ventre attacked the village at night. There were 9 lodges in the village. It was on a creek with timber on the banks. They all escaped in the creek. She, her husband, three children and Jumping Eagle (now on Porcupine) and his wife and Mrs. Rib Man's uncle all stayed there. The enemy fired on them all night. Her uncle got shot in the leg with a bullet. She ventured out once. Her uncle called her and she went into his tipi and found he was shot in the leg. She helped him up and saw the blood pour down. At daylight the enemy left.
She was in many buffalo hunts. It was hard work and she could finish only one robe in a day.
When she was a girl they made bowls and large spoons out of box elder wood; spoons of mountain sheep horns.
She made dresses of buckskin and elk skin. The thread used was sinew. Buckskin thongs were used for buttons. She was 9 when Stabber her grandfather brought beads. They were the first she had seen. He was one of the first to go to Washington and it was then he brought the bead. Before that they used porcupine quills.
A few women have medicine but she did not have any.
She has had four children, 2 boys living and 2 girls who died.
She lives at Wounded Knee.
Born about 1842-44, she was one of a set of twin daughters of Black Fox and Iron Cedar Woman. Her Lakota name, Ash'api win has been variously translated as Shouts At, Shouted at Her, and Hoot at Her. She married Rib Man about 1871 and they raised a family during the transition to reservation life.
During the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, her and her young family were out with the non-treaty Oglala. In a reminiscences that she gave perhaps in the 1920s, she recalled being in the main Indian village at the Little Bighorn that fateful day in June 1876. She explained that she had a ten day old baby at the time and therefore could not flee with the other women and children as the Seventh Cavalry attacked. Rib Man and his family returned to the Red Cloud Agency in late 1876 or early 1877 and in the spring of 1877, he went out as a peace emissary, perhaps with George Sword. During the agencies removal in late 1877, the Rib Man family were part of the "break aways" who headed north into Canada. They later slipped back south, initially going to the Rosebud Reservation and then moving over to Pine Ridge. The family settled in among her husband's tiyospaye, Waceunpa, by 1890. Her short reminiscences was interpreted and written out by Roy Bear Nose (1899-1938), the husband of her granddaughter, and was later published in The Westerners Brand Book (Chicago, Mar. 1962). She died on Pine Ridge in 1927.
I recently found a new unpublished interview with Shout At among the field notes of Edmond S. Meany who conducted interviews on Pine Ridge in 1907 for Edward Curtis' photographic project. While this new interview does not reveal any additional information about the 1876-1881 events, she does provide a few additional details of her life. For me, one of the interesting comments is her reference to Stabber as her grandfather and that he was one of the Lakota representatives to travel to Washington, D.C. to meet the Great Father, perhaps as part of the 1851 delegation. I was not aware of any family connections between the Black Fox and Stabber families. Worth further exploration.
Anyway, here is a transcription of the short interview:
Wounded Knee
Manderson, S.D. 19 July 1907
Joseph Pourier, Interpreter
Mrs. Rib Man
Ash ah-Pi-win
61 years old
Ogalala
Her father was Black Fox. She lived as a little girl in the Black Hills.
She was never in a war party but once the Gros Ventre attacked the village at night. There were 9 lodges in the village. It was on a creek with timber on the banks. They all escaped in the creek. She, her husband, three children and Jumping Eagle (now on Porcupine) and his wife and Mrs. Rib Man's uncle all stayed there. The enemy fired on them all night. Her uncle got shot in the leg with a bullet. She ventured out once. Her uncle called her and she went into his tipi and found he was shot in the leg. She helped him up and saw the blood pour down. At daylight the enemy left.
She was in many buffalo hunts. It was hard work and she could finish only one robe in a day.
When she was a girl they made bowls and large spoons out of box elder wood; spoons of mountain sheep horns.
She made dresses of buckskin and elk skin. The thread used was sinew. Buckskin thongs were used for buttons. She was 9 when Stabber her grandfather brought beads. They were the first she had seen. He was one of the first to go to Washington and it was then he brought the bead. Before that they used porcupine quills.
A few women have medicine but she did not have any.
She has had four children, 2 boys living and 2 girls who died.
She lives at Wounded Knee.
