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Hey Cousin-
I found you on net lol
part 1
August 12
FOUND GRANDPARENTS
Transcribed by CKitto 8/12/2006
Testimony of Eunice (KITTO) Baskin in the heiship case of Two Crow, Deceased Lower Yankonia Sioux Allottee No. 109, taken by M. E. Gorman, Examiner of Inheritance, pursuant to notice herewith.
Zoe Leeds, Interpreter.
Q. Give your name, age, Tribe, and residence.
A. Eunice Baskin. I am 49 years old, Santee Sioux Tribe, and live at Santee, Nebraska.
Q. Did you know Two Crow?
A. I never saw him.
Q. What relation, if any, are you to him?
A. My father's father and Hupa's father were brothers. My father's name was Dennis Mazaadidi and he was allotted in that name but was baptized in the name of Kitto, and my father's father's name was "Cituwa," and Hupa's father was "Tawaotahaduta," and the father of these two "Wayruga," and he had two wives, both sisters, I am told by old people, and they were named "Mniheca" and the other "Hapan," and it is not known which is the mother of these two, but it is known that they had the same father, and if they had different mothers, their mothers were sisters. I made a mistake in the name of one wife that I called "Hapan," as Hapan was not her name, but her name was "Winyanhanaka," and she was the sister of "Mniheca."
Q. Was Dennis Mazaadidi or Kitto ever married and if so, how many times, to who, how and when and how was each marriage terminated?
A. He was married only one time, to Ellen Pazahiyayewin, my mother, and she died last December 1916, and my father died 1892, and they lived together until he died, and my mother was never married after he died.
Q. Were your father and mother allotted?
A. My father was allotted but my mother did not have a separate allotment from him.
Q. Has the estate of your father been probated?
A. It never has unless it was probated when Mr. H. F. Marble and Mr. A. G. Pollock were there about 1911 on the Competency Commission. No examiner of Inheritance, for the Government, ever inquired into his estate.
Q. Who would be his rightful heirs?
A. My mother would have been one but she died December 12, 1918, Richard Kitto, living, age 60 years, Belle Kitto, living, age 58 years, the next one was Ellen Kitto Hunter, dead, died in 1897 or 1898, age about 35 years, married one time to Thomas Hunter, living, lives at Lake Andes, S.D., and they never had any children, and her estate has been probated, and my mother, her husband and the living children were her heirs, I am the next child, the next one is a son named Joseph Kitto, living, age 47 years, the next one is a daughter named Lucy K. Lincoln, living, age about 44, these are all that are left of my father's family, and my mother is dead as I said before.
Q. Do you know any others that should come into this estate of Two Crow?
A. Rebecca M. Frazier is the same relation to Two Crow that I am, Mary Jones is the same as I am, Charley Moose is also, John Bill, all of Santee, Neb., Itekagewin or Mrs. Eli Chinn of the Yankton reservation, Wagner, S. D., is a cousin to Hupa the mother of Two Crow, and a half-sister to my father Dennis Mazaadidi, same mother and different fathers, and she is still living, age 80 years or more, Mrs. Rogers of Granite Falls, Minnesota, also called Susbe, or Cross, living, and she is related to Hupa, being a first cousin to her, and second cousin to Two Crow, she is Mrs. William Rogers, I can say further that I have seen Hupa, the mother of Two Crow, as she stayed with us several times as she wandered around, and what I have given above are about all I know about the relatives of Two Crow on his mother's side and I am not well acquainted with that side and I don't care to enter that side of the testimony.
Q. Are you interested in this estate?
A. Yes.
Signed: Eunice Baskin
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of August 1919.
Signed: M. E. Gorman
Examiner of Inheritance
Name: Eunice Baskin
Age: 49
Sex: Female
Tribe: Santee Sioux
Address: Santee, Nebraska
Means of Knowledge: Fair, but too young to know the family history except from hearsay from older Indians.
Interest in case: Claims an interest.
Intelligence and credibility: Excellent in both respects
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April 10
Subject: I am the first born generation of this forced citizenry.
Forwarded by my sister: Cora.
This was sent to the editor of Newsweek. This week’s issue focused on immigration, which should be a near and dear subject to most Indian people.
Dear Editor;
As a Sicangu Lakota from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota (legally referred to as American Indian), I read with interest the articles on immigration. How things have changed in a mere 514 years when the ancestors of today's American Indians welcomed a bunch of hapless immigrations fleeing from deplorable economic, social, and religious conditions of their homelands.
When viewing the timeline insert titled "Patrolling The Border" on page 36 I noted, with interest, a missing entry in 1924. This is the year the United State passed legislation making American Indians United States citizens. This allowed the United States to step up the efforts to dispossess American Indians of their homelands. During the early 1900's American Indians lands had the cloak of protection removed when an American Indian male joined the military service or when an American Indian female married a immigrate (white person). When this protection was removed their lands where placed on the county tax rolls. However, during this same time period the United States begin to arbitrary remove this protection from other land; resulting in the loss of an individual's of land through tax foreclosure. The problem for the counties and the United States with these tax foreclosures resulted in a situation referred to as "taxation without representation" because almost all American Indians were not citizens. The fix, in 1924, was to make most American Indians citizens. This happened without their consent or knowledge.
My parents were 3 and 4 years old, grandparents were in their 20's. I am the first born generation of this forced citizenry.
In retrospect, looking at the timeline there seems be acts that are un-American in limiting entry in my homelands. But, American Indians have known for generations to what ends the United States will go to "fix" a situation to its liking.
Howard D. Valandra
P.O. Box 147
St. Francis, SD 57572
Howard
www.indianlandtenure.org
"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."
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April 06
Santee Circa 1955
Reuben took this picture of the road on the hill that enters Santee. Some new buildings and more water are visible today, but the view is much the same. I will take a picture while standing approximately in the same spot to and upload the image later....My spirit has already soared there and my body will soon reunite with my spirit when I return to the Santee Sioux Nation Reservation!
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March 31
PIKE and the Santee MDEWAKANTON DAKOTA
September 23, 1805, Lt. Zebulon Pike signed a treaty with the "Sioux Nation of Indians" for 9-miles of land on either side of the Mississippi River from below the confluence with the Minnesota, north to the Falls of St. Anthony. The United States of America was granted "full sovereignty & power over said districts forever" for the "purpose of the establishment of military posts" while the native people retained the rights to "pass, repass, hunt or make other uses of the said districts, as they have formerly done." In trade for the land use, the assembled Dakota people got 60 barrels of whiskey & $200. The treaty was never ratified & has not been tested in the courts.
www.friendsofcoldwater.org/history/facts/facts.html
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March 30
Pazahiyayewin - "Ellen White" SUPER HEROINE
Friends,
I take this opportunity to THANK my Tahansi' Reuben Kitto for all the information I am using on this Web site. My sincere and hearty THANKS to him and his efforts to bring our family together. I quote his latest email in its entirety:
"While in Mankato, I was telling Marcella that someone who was researching Inkpaduta, found a probate record that left all of his belongings to Pazahiyayewin upon his death. They promised to send us copies but so far we haven't got them. We will see that person in September again, at the Makato Wacipi, and pursue it.
Inkpaduta was on the run for decades, always being chased by the U. S. Army, and the Army was ALWAYS inept enough NOT to catch him.
The possibility that Inkpaduta is Pazahiyayewin's father, or at least related, is credible for at least three reasons:
(1) so far I haven't seen records of what Pazahiyayewin's given European maiden name is;
(2) Inkpaduta, while on the run, was protected by numerous sympathetic Dakota families, probably spawning offspring in the process; and
(3) Inkpaduta would never have released the names of any of his friends, relatives or offspring for fear that the animosity towards him would be directed towards them. Hence it doesn't come out until his death.
From your comment Bruce, I assume that White is on some record you've seen for Pazahiyayewin? If so, I've missed it. Please send me details. Thanks in advance.
If Inkpaduta is indeed the father of, or in some way related to Pazahiyayewin, it would provide a genetic explanation as to how and why she was able to function under the most oppressive of conditions.
For example, Mazaadidi is arrested by the Army on the day of one of his children's birth. That child we have learned is Bella, Indian name Wanske (fourth born if a female). That would also mean Pazahiyayewin could have had 3 other living children when she and they, had to endure the forced march from Lower Sioux to Ft. Snelling in November of 1862. That was a 100 mile plus march that the children, the elders, and the women for forced to make on foot.
All the men at that time were imprisoned in Mankato. My grandfather, Richard was age 2 at the time of the Dakota march, and Pazahiyayewin's obit speaks of her managing four children "and the old mother" during that 7 day march. If there were two other children, we don't know who their names. Whether "the old mother" was Pazahiyayewin's mother, or Mazaadidi's mother, we don't know either, or even her name.
No one who is related to Inkpaduta is likely to be on any list of "good Indians" or "loyalists" as they now want to call themselves.
So it boils down to:
Do you want to be on the list of "good loyalist Indians" and get some casino money?
Or can one derive satisfaction being a descendant of Inkpaduta or any of the other belligerent "bad Indians" who had the courage to fight for their lands and children?
Inkpaduta never made a single concession to the white man, refusing to sign all treaties ceding Dakota lands, and throughout, was able to demonstrate that he had a pair of gonads!
Food for thought. Ennit?
Uncle Reuben W. Kitto, Jr."
Many Thanks Reuben - MIKE.
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March 29
Mazaadidi - Where Did KITTO Originate?
I received an email from Tahansi Reuben, Jr., I quote it in its entirety:
This is addressed to the following who are family members, and family friends who have contributed to our knowledge and ever-growing understanding of our Dakota ancestors, extended family, and our Dakota language, traditions, and culture. Some of you contribute much, others less, but you all benefit greatly from this unending search.
Mazaadidi Family Genealogists (my title for you):
Many of you are already aware of the Oyate Proboards site, but if you are not I urge you to visit it soon because much of our recent information was obtained from some very helpful people there. The site is:
oyate1.proboards58.com
I recently sent most of you some data on Mazaadidi, his brothers, and their offspring. One of the responses I received was from nephew Julian who informed me that an old Bible exists with information disclosing that Mazaadidi took the name of Dennis Kitto from a Dutch man whom Mazaadidi knew that had that name.
We know that Mazaadidi was released from Davenport Prison by pardon from President Lincoln, dated 30 April 1864. This means he was released after about 18 months. At that time the records show his name as Mazaadidi.
In July of 1865 Mazaadidi's name was on a list of Dakotas at the Crow Creek Agency who were allowed to leave for the purpose of hunting for food for the Tribe because the government failed to provide and the Dakotas were starving. At that point he is still shown on the records as Mazaadidi.
The earliest Santee census I have seen is 1878, fourteen years later, and that census shows Mazaadidi now carries the name of Dennis M. Kitto. His brothers, in 1878 also have Kitto as surnames. The dilemma is we want to learn the specifics of how and when Kitto came into our family.
I found you on net lol
part 1
August 12
FOUND GRANDPARENTS
Transcribed by CKitto 8/12/2006
Testimony of Eunice (KITTO) Baskin in the heiship case of Two Crow, Deceased Lower Yankonia Sioux Allottee No. 109, taken by M. E. Gorman, Examiner of Inheritance, pursuant to notice herewith.
Zoe Leeds, Interpreter.
Q. Give your name, age, Tribe, and residence.
A. Eunice Baskin. I am 49 years old, Santee Sioux Tribe, and live at Santee, Nebraska.
Q. Did you know Two Crow?
A. I never saw him.
Q. What relation, if any, are you to him?
A. My father's father and Hupa's father were brothers. My father's name was Dennis Mazaadidi and he was allotted in that name but was baptized in the name of Kitto, and my father's father's name was "Cituwa," and Hupa's father was "Tawaotahaduta," and the father of these two "Wayruga," and he had two wives, both sisters, I am told by old people, and they were named "Mniheca" and the other "Hapan," and it is not known which is the mother of these two, but it is known that they had the same father, and if they had different mothers, their mothers were sisters. I made a mistake in the name of one wife that I called "Hapan," as Hapan was not her name, but her name was "Winyanhanaka," and she was the sister of "Mniheca."
Q. Was Dennis Mazaadidi or Kitto ever married and if so, how many times, to who, how and when and how was each marriage terminated?
A. He was married only one time, to Ellen Pazahiyayewin, my mother, and she died last December 1916, and my father died 1892, and they lived together until he died, and my mother was never married after he died.
Q. Were your father and mother allotted?
A. My father was allotted but my mother did not have a separate allotment from him.
Q. Has the estate of your father been probated?
A. It never has unless it was probated when Mr. H. F. Marble and Mr. A. G. Pollock were there about 1911 on the Competency Commission. No examiner of Inheritance, for the Government, ever inquired into his estate.
Q. Who would be his rightful heirs?
A. My mother would have been one but she died December 12, 1918, Richard Kitto, living, age 60 years, Belle Kitto, living, age 58 years, the next one was Ellen Kitto Hunter, dead, died in 1897 or 1898, age about 35 years, married one time to Thomas Hunter, living, lives at Lake Andes, S.D., and they never had any children, and her estate has been probated, and my mother, her husband and the living children were her heirs, I am the next child, the next one is a son named Joseph Kitto, living, age 47 years, the next one is a daughter named Lucy K. Lincoln, living, age about 44, these are all that are left of my father's family, and my mother is dead as I said before.
Q. Do you know any others that should come into this estate of Two Crow?
A. Rebecca M. Frazier is the same relation to Two Crow that I am, Mary Jones is the same as I am, Charley Moose is also, John Bill, all of Santee, Neb., Itekagewin or Mrs. Eli Chinn of the Yankton reservation, Wagner, S. D., is a cousin to Hupa the mother of Two Crow, and a half-sister to my father Dennis Mazaadidi, same mother and different fathers, and she is still living, age 80 years or more, Mrs. Rogers of Granite Falls, Minnesota, also called Susbe, or Cross, living, and she is related to Hupa, being a first cousin to her, and second cousin to Two Crow, she is Mrs. William Rogers, I can say further that I have seen Hupa, the mother of Two Crow, as she stayed with us several times as she wandered around, and what I have given above are about all I know about the relatives of Two Crow on his mother's side and I am not well acquainted with that side and I don't care to enter that side of the testimony.
Q. Are you interested in this estate?
A. Yes.
Signed: Eunice Baskin
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of August 1919.
Signed: M. E. Gorman
Examiner of Inheritance
Name: Eunice Baskin
Age: 49
Sex: Female
Tribe: Santee Sioux
Address: Santee, Nebraska
Means of Knowledge: Fair, but too young to know the family history except from hearsay from older Indians.
Interest in case: Claims an interest.
Intelligence and credibility: Excellent in both respects
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April 10
Subject: I am the first born generation of this forced citizenry.
Forwarded by my sister: Cora.
This was sent to the editor of Newsweek. This week’s issue focused on immigration, which should be a near and dear subject to most Indian people.
Dear Editor;
As a Sicangu Lakota from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota (legally referred to as American Indian), I read with interest the articles on immigration. How things have changed in a mere 514 years when the ancestors of today's American Indians welcomed a bunch of hapless immigrations fleeing from deplorable economic, social, and religious conditions of their homelands.
When viewing the timeline insert titled "Patrolling The Border" on page 36 I noted, with interest, a missing entry in 1924. This is the year the United State passed legislation making American Indians United States citizens. This allowed the United States to step up the efforts to dispossess American Indians of their homelands. During the early 1900's American Indians lands had the cloak of protection removed when an American Indian male joined the military service or when an American Indian female married a immigrate (white person). When this protection was removed their lands where placed on the county tax rolls. However, during this same time period the United States begin to arbitrary remove this protection from other land; resulting in the loss of an individual's of land through tax foreclosure. The problem for the counties and the United States with these tax foreclosures resulted in a situation referred to as "taxation without representation" because almost all American Indians were not citizens. The fix, in 1924, was to make most American Indians citizens. This happened without their consent or knowledge.
My parents were 3 and 4 years old, grandparents were in their 20's. I am the first born generation of this forced citizenry.
In retrospect, looking at the timeline there seems be acts that are un-American in limiting entry in my homelands. But, American Indians have known for generations to what ends the United States will go to "fix" a situation to its liking.
Howard D. Valandra
P.O. Box 147
St. Francis, SD 57572
Howard
www.indianlandtenure.org
"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."
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April 06
Santee Circa 1955
Reuben took this picture of the road on the hill that enters Santee. Some new buildings and more water are visible today, but the view is much the same. I will take a picture while standing approximately in the same spot to and upload the image later....My spirit has already soared there and my body will soon reunite with my spirit when I return to the Santee Sioux Nation Reservation!
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March 31
PIKE and the Santee MDEWAKANTON DAKOTA
September 23, 1805, Lt. Zebulon Pike signed a treaty with the "Sioux Nation of Indians" for 9-miles of land on either side of the Mississippi River from below the confluence with the Minnesota, north to the Falls of St. Anthony. The United States of America was granted "full sovereignty & power over said districts forever" for the "purpose of the establishment of military posts" while the native people retained the rights to "pass, repass, hunt or make other uses of the said districts, as they have formerly done." In trade for the land use, the assembled Dakota people got 60 barrels of whiskey & $200. The treaty was never ratified & has not been tested in the courts.
www.friendsofcoldwater.org/history/facts/facts.html
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March 30
Pazahiyayewin - "Ellen White" SUPER HEROINE
Friends,
I take this opportunity to THANK my Tahansi' Reuben Kitto for all the information I am using on this Web site. My sincere and hearty THANKS to him and his efforts to bring our family together. I quote his latest email in its entirety:
"While in Mankato, I was telling Marcella that someone who was researching Inkpaduta, found a probate record that left all of his belongings to Pazahiyayewin upon his death. They promised to send us copies but so far we haven't got them. We will see that person in September again, at the Makato Wacipi, and pursue it.
Inkpaduta was on the run for decades, always being chased by the U. S. Army, and the Army was ALWAYS inept enough NOT to catch him.
The possibility that Inkpaduta is Pazahiyayewin's father, or at least related, is credible for at least three reasons:
(1) so far I haven't seen records of what Pazahiyayewin's given European maiden name is;
(2) Inkpaduta, while on the run, was protected by numerous sympathetic Dakota families, probably spawning offspring in the process; and
(3) Inkpaduta would never have released the names of any of his friends, relatives or offspring for fear that the animosity towards him would be directed towards them. Hence it doesn't come out until his death.
From your comment Bruce, I assume that White is on some record you've seen for Pazahiyayewin? If so, I've missed it. Please send me details. Thanks in advance.
If Inkpaduta is indeed the father of, or in some way related to Pazahiyayewin, it would provide a genetic explanation as to how and why she was able to function under the most oppressive of conditions.
For example, Mazaadidi is arrested by the Army on the day of one of his children's birth. That child we have learned is Bella, Indian name Wanske (fourth born if a female). That would also mean Pazahiyayewin could have had 3 other living children when she and they, had to endure the forced march from Lower Sioux to Ft. Snelling in November of 1862. That was a 100 mile plus march that the children, the elders, and the women for forced to make on foot.
All the men at that time were imprisoned in Mankato. My grandfather, Richard was age 2 at the time of the Dakota march, and Pazahiyayewin's obit speaks of her managing four children "and the old mother" during that 7 day march. If there were two other children, we don't know who their names. Whether "the old mother" was Pazahiyayewin's mother, or Mazaadidi's mother, we don't know either, or even her name.
No one who is related to Inkpaduta is likely to be on any list of "good Indians" or "loyalists" as they now want to call themselves.
So it boils down to:
Do you want to be on the list of "good loyalist Indians" and get some casino money?
Or can one derive satisfaction being a descendant of Inkpaduta or any of the other belligerent "bad Indians" who had the courage to fight for their lands and children?
Inkpaduta never made a single concession to the white man, refusing to sign all treaties ceding Dakota lands, and throughout, was able to demonstrate that he had a pair of gonads!
Food for thought. Ennit?
Uncle Reuben W. Kitto, Jr."
Many Thanks Reuben - MIKE.
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March 29
Mazaadidi - Where Did KITTO Originate?
I received an email from Tahansi Reuben, Jr., I quote it in its entirety:
This is addressed to the following who are family members, and family friends who have contributed to our knowledge and ever-growing understanding of our Dakota ancestors, extended family, and our Dakota language, traditions, and culture. Some of you contribute much, others less, but you all benefit greatly from this unending search.
Mazaadidi Family Genealogists (my title for you):
Many of you are already aware of the Oyate Proboards site, but if you are not I urge you to visit it soon because much of our recent information was obtained from some very helpful people there. The site is:
oyate1.proboards58.com
I recently sent most of you some data on Mazaadidi, his brothers, and their offspring. One of the responses I received was from nephew Julian who informed me that an old Bible exists with information disclosing that Mazaadidi took the name of Dennis Kitto from a Dutch man whom Mazaadidi knew that had that name.
We know that Mazaadidi was released from Davenport Prison by pardon from President Lincoln, dated 30 April 1864. This means he was released after about 18 months. At that time the records show his name as Mazaadidi.
In July of 1865 Mazaadidi's name was on a list of Dakotas at the Crow Creek Agency who were allowed to leave for the purpose of hunting for food for the Tribe because the government failed to provide and the Dakotas were starving. At that point he is still shown on the records as Mazaadidi.
The earliest Santee census I have seen is 1878, fourteen years later, and that census shows Mazaadidi now carries the name of Dennis M. Kitto. His brothers, in 1878 also have Kitto as surnames. The dilemma is we want to learn the specifics of how and when Kitto came into our family.
