Wahacankamaza or Joseph Ironshield

[tamara]

I am looking for information on this family. Any and all would be appreciated as I know that there are more than one Ironshield family. the family I am focused on has a son named Henry who shows in Santee Normal Training school from Cannon Ball ND and also on the 1920 Federal Census. Heny Ironshields baptismal record shows him to have been born in 1870 to Joseph Ironshield but does not indicate where. he was baptised in North Dakota.

The McLaughlin family also ties into this line. Agent Mclaughlin's wife is said to have raised these children after the death of her sister.

[hermin1]

Tamara
I have a Henry Iron Shield Age 54 born 1876 in South dakota.
His wife was listed as Susan born@1877.
children: George Ironshield B. 1914 and Wallace iron shield b.@1920.
reference is 1930 US Census Twp 21 Carson,SD
sorry I don't have anything else onthe Ironcshield family.

[peacekeeper]

www.electricscotland.com/history/women/wh46.htm

www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m

marie l mclaughlin was the daughter of mary graham buisson.


James McLaughlin (1842-1923) was born and raised in Ontario, Canada, and he obtained his U.S. citizenship at twenty-three. For several years, he worked as an itinerant blacksmith and salesman. In 1871, he was hired as a blacksmith at Fort Totten but was trained to be an Indian agent. He was officially appointed agent in 1876 and was transferred to the Sioux reservation at Standing Rock in 1881. He strove to make the Indians self-sufficient by encouraging them to become educated and adopt white traditions (sic).


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Editor's Note: Another aspect to this History text has been provided by my finding yesterday, in researching Sioux stories, that James McLaughlin's wife, Marie, was part-Sioux and gathered together some of the stories, transcribed directly as they were told to her. Followed by one of the stories, included here are her own words, by way of introduction:


MRS. MARIE L. MCLAUGHLIN


"In publishing these "Myths of the Sioux," I deem it proper to state that I am of one-fourth Sioux blood. My maternal grandfather, Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the British Army, was one of a party of Scotch Highlanders who in 1811 arrived in the British Northwest by way of York Factory, Hudson Bay, to found what was known as the Selkirk Colony, near Lake Winnipeg, now within the province of Manitoba, Canada. Soon after his arrival at Lake Winnipeg he proceeded up the Red River of the North and the western fork thereof to its source, and thence down the Minnesota River to Mendota, the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, where he located. My grandmother, Ha-za-ho-ta-win, was a full-blood of the Medawakanton Band of the Sioux Tribe of Indians. My father, Joseph Buisson, born near Montreal, Canada, was connected with the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Mendota, Minnesota, which point was for many years the chief distributing depot of the American Fur Company, from which the Indian trade conducted by that company on the upper Mississippi was directed.

"I was born December 8, 1842, at Wabasha, Minnesota, then Indian country, and resided thereat until fourteen years of age, when I was sent to school at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

"I was married to Major James McLaughlin at Mendota, Minnesota, January 28, 1864, and resided in Minnesota until July 1, 1871, when I accompanied my husband to Devils Lake Agency, North Dakota, then Dakota Territory, where I remained ten years in most friendly relations with the Indians of that agency. My husband was Indian agent at Devils Lake Agency, and in 1881 was transferred to Standing Rock, on the Missouri River, then a very important agency, to take charge of the Sioux who had then but recently surrendered to the military authorities, and been brought by steamboat from various points on the upper Missouri, to be permanently located on the Standing Rock reservation.

Buissons are descendants of Duncan Graham.

I will see what else I can find.

Jackie

[tamara]

thank you that is the person I am looking for. I am also curious about the Joseph Ironshields on the 1886 and 1889 Rolls. The Henton Land record shows one joseph ironshield as not having any children. the other one shows a daughter named fanny and I found a birth record for her son a Merton Crawford in the Day County area. i do see a number of ironshields in that area. There is also an Ironshield in the Standing Rock Treaty show signs in 1882. I am thinking that is our guy.

Tamara

[stoutmar]

Hi Tamara,

I have found joseph listed on "old betsey genealogy" (known cousin of Taopi). It lists his father and siblings.

I can email... Let me know if you have not see this.

Thanks,

Mark

[tamara]

that would be great! I think I may have had it but on another computer. thanks!

[stoutmar]

Tamara,

FYI - it lists his daughters as:

Fanny and Esther

Thanks,

Mark

[tamara]

thank you Jackie. I am searching for some answers for a very elderly and very incredible woman who is is descendant of this man. She has oral history of him and that Henry was given to Marie McLaughlin after the death of his mother. He was baptised in St Peters church in Ft Yates in 1886 or thereabouts but the records say the was born in 1870. If Mrs McLaughlin is his aunt they share the same ancestry as she through hazahotawin and grahams. I also say he name Iron shield on the 38th congressional globe document. Mr Montana had asked me to show it to an elder who reads and speaks to translate and he was very very helpful in sorting out who is who. It helps to have some hstory background to have an idea of who probably is signign on the letter as well.

[tamara]

Thanks, so that is the other Jospeh Iron shield. but as a very wise person taught me, it is good to know who you are eliminating your search as well.

ps [e-mail] gee, would be nice to know where to email to, aye?! lol

[derockbraine1]

Hi Tamara,
We also have a GGGrandfather named Joseph Iron Shield, listed on the 1900 census in Standing Rock where he is living with his daughter Domatilla DeRockbraine and Antoine DeRockbraine and their children. We also thought he was from Minnesota but he was born in South Dakota. However our GGrandfather Antoine DeRockbraine was born in Yellow Medicine, Minnesota. We are currently looking for his mother Josephine Red Day (Anpetudutawin). I wonder if there's any connection. We can't find any other records on our Joseph Iron Shield. derockbraine1

[derockbraine1]

Hi Tamara,
I forgot to inform you that at the LDS Historical Library in Bismarck, ND, we found all the Joseph Iron Shields that lived in Standing Rock in the May1890 Census, including ours and also Henry's father. There is also one that is married to a woman named Bear, with children named Black Feather. However some of them are written in Lakota and Dakota. derockbraine1

[tamara]

What did you find on Henry's father? The Joseph Ironshield they search for is said to be from Minnesota. According to the testimony in probate, they state he "was from back east" and not from this tribe or reservation. So the Ironshield who signs the Treaty in 1882 is who? do you have a copy of the 1890 census? or the part that has Ironshield's on it. According to their family history, he had left the children at some point, with the wife of Mr McLaughlin.

anything you can tell me will be appreciative.

Tamara

[derockbraine1]

HI Tamara,
I gave those copies away, a pair of sisters wanted the one census which stated that his wife's name was Blue Pumpkin Seed Woman, I may still have the other one. We also found our Joseph there also. He was married to EagleBody Woman, her English name was Mary. There were a total of 3 Joseph Iron Shields. The other Joseph was married to Bear Woman and had several children, one boy was named Black Feather. I heard Zona mention something about a Bear woman I think. I will check my briefcase, they could also research in Bismarck since they have the approximate date it should be easy to find. derockbraine1

[derockbraine1]

Hi Tamara,
Your in luck, I found the Census for Iron Shield, Bear Woman, Henry Iron Shield, Black Eagle, and White. I also found his (Henry Iron Shield) marriage certificate to Annie GoodIron, Emma Marpiya? There is another census with an Iron Shield, Married to Laughing (Ica) with a nephew named John Elk. I also found my GGGrandfather's Joseph Iron Shield's census with three of his daughters. Please email me at [e-mail] and I will email you copies of these census and marriage certificate. derockbraine1

[dawn]

Hi Tamara. I found a Joseph Ironshield Wahacankamaza on a 1891 Birch Cooly census in Redwood. His is listed with an adopted daughter Esther. She is 12. I can not really read his age but think it is either 55 or 35. He is listed as a Widower. They are family number 12.

Dawn

[hermin1]

Jackie: I remember Idid a search for someone when Iwas ontheother web site for a descendant of the Buissons. Drned if I didn't think to save the information. I did though find most of the information she needed at Ancestry.com, and possibly some information at www.familysearch.com

[tamara]

Thank you all for your help. I have seen a Ironshield who shows as having had some scout service but I am unclear as to what years. The widow is named Ida. So far with the Buisson/Graham research I am not clearly seeing a woman who married Joseph Ironshield. There is a son named Henry tho, a brother to Mrs Buisson. Does anyone know of anyone who has been certified under the Ironshields on the 86 and 89 rolls?

Tamara

[hermin1]

james McLaughlin was born @ 1848 at Wabasha,Wabasha,MInn.
He married Mary Louie Buisson b. 1852 Wabasha,Wabasha,MN
mary's parents were Joseph Buisson, born1812 East Canada, and Nancy Graham born 1807/1815 MN. They were married 1836 in Minn. Their children were
Mary Louise, she died Mar. 11, 1915
Joseph (jr)
Cyprion,
Henry,
Harriet.

[hermin1]

i just seen an interesiing web site that lists places in so. dakota that are haunted, when I typed in the Name Major James McLaughlin. It sems there is a town in So. Dakota named after him. the whole town appears to be haunted. The McLauglin house is haunted as well. I don't know if this the house where he andmary Louise buisson lived or not.
He died in Washington,DC. so I am guessing that this is not your James McLaughlin.

[denney]

Wheres the the link ? copy paste link to site

hermin1 said:

i just seen an interesiing web site that lists places in so. dakota that are haunted, when I typed in the Name Major James McLaughlin. It sems there is a town in So. Dakota named after him. the whole town appears to be haunted. The McLauglin house is haunted as well. I don't know if this the house where he andmary Louise buisson lived or not.
He died in Washington,DC. so I am guessing that this is not your James McLaughlin.