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Post by ohoover on Feb 2, 2022 14:23:02 GMT -5
I'm looking for information and hopefully a photograph of Paul T. Boynton. We have his Benjamin Harrison medal at the American Numismatic Society. All I know about him at the moment is that he was a Southern Arapaho whose Native name was Red Feather who had the misfortune of attending the Carlisle Industrial School. He was later a clerk or interpreter at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency who became involved in the Ghost Dance movement.
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Post by Dietmar on Feb 2, 2022 15:28:55 GMT -5
Hi Ohoover, here he is: Medicine Sack, Southern Cheyenne/Southern Arapaho and her husband Red Feather or Paul Boynton, Southern Arapaho, ca. 1895 Paul Boynton on left [although I´ve seen the man on right identified as One Eyed Antelope, he is rather Sitting Bull, the Arapaho]
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Post by grahamew on Feb 2, 2022 15:44:18 GMT -5
Red Feather with his S. Arapaho or S. Cheyenne wife, Medicine Sack. Stotz established his El Reno studio in 1889. 'One of the interpreters at the agency, possibly Paul Boynton (Red Feather), a former student of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School of Cheyenne and Arapaho descent, wrote to the Northern Cheyennes at the Tongue River Agency in Montana. He wrote in part (in English), “Cheyennes and Arapahoes here are greatly excited about a Christ coming among some of the Northern tribes of Indians. The Arapahoes have been getting letters from Northern Arapahoes in regard to it. My friends here wish me to ask what there is about it, and what do you know about it?” The interpreter at Tongue River replied in part (also in English), “The Indians say Christ is in the mountains, and that he wants all the Indians to come to him.”' nativeamericannetworks.com/goandtellallthetribes/He was a Peyote ceremony and Ghost Dance leader and was aware of the need to avoid a similar situation to the one among the Lakota, so he - with others - talked to James Mooney (for whom he interpreted) to ensure that the government knew why they were dancing and that they intended no harm. You just beat me, Dietmar!
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Post by ohoover on Feb 2, 2022 17:17:40 GMT -5
Many thanks, Dietmar and Grahamew. That's a great picture!
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Post by Dietmar on Feb 3, 2022 7:30:35 GMT -5
Paul Boynton was the son of the Arapaho White Eyed Antelope. He went to Carlisle Indian School from 1883 to 1889. Paul Boynton at Carlisle Indian School, 1884 (photo: Dickinson College, Carlisle) One Eyed Antelope, Arapahoe, Paul Boynton´s father
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Post by ohoover on Feb 3, 2022 11:48:42 GMT -5
Dietmar,
Do you know what the proper Arapaho forms would be for Red Feather and Medicine Sack?
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Post by Historian on Feb 7, 2022 10:45:58 GMT -5
Dietmar, Do you know what the proper Arapaho forms would be for Red Feather and Medicine Sack? Red Feather = Be'eekúúni'
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Post by ohoover on Feb 7, 2022 16:27:33 GMT -5
Thank you so much!
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Post by ohoover on Feb 7, 2022 16:29:28 GMT -5
You wouldn't happen to know the proper Arapaho form would be for his father White-Eyed Antelope as well, would you?
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