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Post by mdenney on Jan 26, 2007 21:20:45 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 26, 2007 21:56:32 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 26, 2007 23:10:50 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 29, 2007 1:01:48 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 29, 2007 1:33:35 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 29, 2007 1:37:00 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 30, 2007 15:35:46 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 30, 2007 19:21:46 GMT -5
War Eagle 1785?-1851 Friend of the White Man Wambdi Okicize is commonly known to white people as War Eagle. He was born in either Wisconsin or Minnesota around 1785. His Indian name means "Little Eagle" but whites always referred to him as War Eagle. This is odd because all through his life War Eagle sought to keep peace. He even left his home tribe the Isanti (sometimes referred to as Santee) to avoid a battle as to who was to become chief. He had many jobs working for the white man. He served as a riverboat guide or pilot on the upper Mississippi, he worked for the American Fur Company delivering messages, and during the War of 1812 he carried messages for the government. Having spent all this time with the whites greatly affected his view toward these people. He saw them as friends rather than enemies After marrying Mazakirawin in Minnesota, he was adopted into the Ihanktonwan or Yankton Sioux around 1830. War Eagle and his wife had seven children, four girls and three boys. One of the things War Eagle was most proud of was a silver medal he received from the President of the United States, Martin Van Buren in 1837. His family still proudly displays this medal. By this time he had been elected chief of the tribe and been invited to travel to Washington, D.C. with other tribal leaders from around the nation to negotiate peace treaties. War Eagle was related to the commander of the Vermillion trading fort, William thingyson. Mr. thingyson had married a cousin of War Eagle. War Eagle also had two of his daughters, Dawn and Blazing Cloud marry Theopile Bruguier. Bruguier has been accepted into the Yankton tribe and traveled with War Eagle's band for several years. He told War Eagle of a dream he had of a beautiful place where two rivers joined together. War Eagle told Bruguier he had been to that place and would show it to him. Bruguier claimed the land at the confluence of the Sioux and the Missouri river. Here in 1849, he built a cabin and with his two wives began to homestead the land and trade with the Indians. War Eagle and his band visited the area often and stayed in teepees and log cabins located on the property. In the fall of 1851 War Eagle died. He was buried on top of a bluff overlooking the Missouri River Valley. A long with War Eagle his two daughters Dawn and Blazing Cloud, and several others including grandchildren were buried on this bluff. Today the bluff is part of War Eagle Park and the monument pictured honors the great chief. War Eagle is best remembered as a person who believed in peace and worked his whole life toward that goal. Because of his leadership among the tribes, the Indians and the whites learned to work together without having to resort to violence. link below- Theophile Bruguier 1813-1896 link below- www.clark.sioux-city.k12.ia.us/History/People/Bruguier.htm
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Post by mdenney on Jan 30, 2007 20:24:57 GMT -5
Cloud Man, also known as Man-of-the-Sky (Ma-hpi-ya-wi-ca-sta), was chief of this village, A History of Minneapolis: Mdewakanton Band of the Dakota Nation [new window][preview][close preview] Cloud Man, also known as Man-of-the-Sky (Ma-hpi-ya-wi-ca-sta), was chief of this village, known as Reyataotonwe (Inland Village) or Eatonville (for John H. www.mpls.lib.mn.us/history/eh1.asp- Cached -More from Minnesota link below- www.mpls.lib.mn.us/history/eh1.asp
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Post by mdenney on Jan 31, 2007 18:17:44 GMT -5
Chief Joseph" Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (1840-1904) The man who became a national celebrity with the name "Chief Joseph" was born in the Wallowa Valley in what is now northeastern Oregon in 1840. He was given the name Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, or Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain, but was widely known as Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, because his father had taken the Christian name Joseph when he was baptized at the Lapwai mission by Henry Spalding in 1838. more to read on link below- www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm
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Post by mdenney on Jan 31, 2007 18:26:06 GMT -5
Wamditanka 'Great war eagle' Big Eagle - commonly called Big Eagle Jerome Big Eagle - sometimes known as Jerome Big Eagle. Wamditanka ('Great war eagle'). A chief of one of the bands of Mdewakanton Sioux at the time of the Sioux uprising in 1862; commonly called Big Eagle, and sometimes known as Jerome Big Eagle. According to his personal narrative, recorded by R. L. Holcombe (Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vi, pt. 3, 382-400, 1894), he was born in 1827 at the Indian village near the site of Mendota, Dakota county, Minn., and on the death of his father, Gray Iron, succeeded him as chief. In his youth he often went with war parties against the Chippewa and other enemies of his tribe, and on occasion wore a headdress with six feathers representing as many Chippewa scalps taken by him. Although Wamditanka took part with the Sioux in the uprising of 1862, he claims that he did not participate in the massacres of the settlers, but even used his influence, in some instances, to save from death both whites and converted mixed-bloods. The evidence shows this claim to be substantially correct, and that he was perhaps pressed into the war by his people. At this time his village was on Crow creek, in McLeod county, Minn. His band consisted of about 150 to 200 persons, including about 40 warriors. Soon after the battle of Birch Coolie, Minn., in 1862, Wamditanka and his band, with others, surrendered to Gen. Sibley. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to three years imprisonment, part of the time at Davenport, Iowa, the remainder at Rock Island, Ill. After his discharge he was converted to Christianity. He was twice married; his second wife was still alive in 1894, at which time his home was at Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine county, Minn. He visited Washington with a delegation of his tribe in 1858, and was one of the signers of the treaty with the Sioux negotiated June 19 of that year. link below- www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/siouan/mdewakantonchiefs.htm
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Post by mdenney on Jan 31, 2007 18:54:37 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 31, 2007 18:56:14 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 31, 2007 18:57:54 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Jan 31, 2007 19:06:34 GMT -5
Wapasha ( Tribe : Mdewakanton Sioux ) c.1718-1806. Wapasha, or "Red Leaf," was the name of several important Mdewakanton Sioux chiefs between roughly 1750 and 1870. The eldest known to the historical record was born about 1718 in present-day Minnesota. As a chief, he spent much of his time making war or negotiating peace with the Chippewas. Later in his life, Wapasha made contact with the English, who withdrew trading relations after the murder of a merchant. Wapasha captured the culprit and set off to deliver him to his accusers. The man escaped, but Wapasha offered himself in his place. The English refused that offer but made an ally. He died near Hokah, Minnesota. c.1763-1836. Son of the elder Wapasha, the younger leader was born in Winona, Minnesota. He met Zebulon Pike's 1805 expedition in search of the Mississippi River's source. He was generally an ally of immigrating Americans, and while the British claimed his loyalty in the War of 1812, Wapasha was regarded as suspect to the point of court-martial. He died of smallpox and was succeeded by his brother (some accounts say nephew), Joseph Wapasha. c.1825-1876. Joseph Wapasha became the Mdewakanton Sioux's principal chief in the mid-nineteenth century. He continued the accommodationist policies of his two forebears of the same name. By the 1840s, however, white immigration in Minnesota had reached unprecedented levels, and friendliness was becoming more difficult to maintain without abject surender. Wapasha reluctantly surrendered to pressure to join in the Great Sioux Uprising that began in 1862 under Little Crow. He and his people did their best to stay out of the hostilities, but after the war they were caught in the colonists' general fervor to rid the state of all Indians. Vigilantes drove Wapasha and his people to a reservation on the upper Missouri. They later moved to the Santee Agency in Nebraska, where Joseph Wapasha died. link below- www.axel-jacob.de/no_photos05.html#wapasha
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