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The Women Who Support Other Notable Native Women When Susbe was a young girl she travelled with her family to South Dakota where they visited the Teton Sioux and they experienced a very bad blizzard. Many of the people died as they were caught out in the snow but Susbe's parents knew that they could survive under a buffalo hide tipi (minus the poles ) they managed to spread it over them and survived. Another time Susbe helped a tribe who were fighting but had left their bullets behind, she ran back to retrieve them as she was the smallest and the fastest, and she ran back dodging a hail of bullets. She became a heroine for that. Also when she was young her family came to Pipestone where the men quarried the red stone that became known as Catlinite. This stone was taken back to the tribe and Pipes were crafted for those who needed one. This was a tradition that they repeated every year. In 1862 the family were once again in Pipestone and on their way home to the Upper Sioux reservation they noticed smoke on the horizon. They found out closer to their home that what has become known as the 1862 Minnesota Uprising between the Dakota and the settlers/Military had begun. The family decided to bury the stone and carry on to Canada and safety. They stayed in Manitoba, Canada for quite a while and during that time Susbe got married, the couple returned to Flandreau, South Dakota. Susbe later married Joseph Amos (Hotontonna) and stayed together until his passing in 1899. Their daughter Eunice married Fred Pearsall an English man who wrote up the history of the family. Their daughter Estella married Moses Crow, and their daughter Ethel married Harvey Derby, who are my late husband Chuck's parents. Chuck comes from a strong family line.
The Great Elders Poison,
This photo of Poison was taken when she was almost 100 years old, Poison is Cheyenne. 1888
Mary Selmore,
Aged 101 years, near Eastport, Maine. c.1906 The research of Sue Stevens identified this photo as Mary (Selmore) Mitchell, Passamaquoddy, at the age of 101.
The photo was taken about 1906. Mary was the wife of Louis Mitchell. Louis served as a State Representative for the Passamaquoddy in 1880 and 1883. He was very outspoken on the subject of Maine Indian land rights.
These Bios come from a web site I created called Ancient Voices in 2006. It was for a Museum I had made in the Little Feather Center, Pipestone. If you would like more info on any of the women I will be using today and tomorrow, please let me know. |
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Day 15, December 24th 2019 Prayer for Today Good morning relatives. Prayers
and smoke up,tobacco down. Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Route for Today From Courtland today they head off to Mankato where they will be until the final day (20 miles) they will stay the night in the Norwood Inn, (formally Best Western). Breakfast will be with the Chuck Wagon, I have no further info on lunch or dinner. Sorry The horses will be at the Mark Peterson Farm, as they were last year.
From our Members: Dorothy Denetsosie Gishie Inez Morris:
Photos from the Ride
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Dakota 38 + 2 Memorial Ride Supporters group on Facebook Historic photographs courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Website mostly written and Created by Gloria Hazell Derby Dragonfly Dezignz © 2019 to date |
