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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Jun 6, 2014 23:06:02 GMT -5
"Accordingly, it is respectfully requested that once the Trust Administration Class information held by the Claims Administrator is finalized, Plaintiffs be permitted, upon order of this Court, to commence distribution of Trust Administration Class payments, setting aside sufficient funds to cover the pending appeals." Respectfully submitted this the 23st day of May, 2014. /s/ David C. Smith DAVID COVENTRY SMITH D.C. Bar No. 998932 KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON, LLP 607 14th Street, N.W, Suite 900 Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 508-5844 WILLIAM E. DORRIS Georgia Bar No. 225987 Admitted Pro Hac Vice KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON, LLP 1100 Peachtree Street, Suite 2800 Atlanta, Georgia 30309 404-815-6500 Attorneys for Plaintiffs
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 11, 2014 20:48:01 GMT -5
Are you the Valari92 who is the owner of the tree Black hawk flies away....et al? Do you own that tree? I have searched ancestry and I left a comment for a source of the picture on the Hauer Guzinski (Guss) Lewandowki Family Tree, if that is where you got it from . Why would you display a pic that you are doubtful of so that others will copy the doubtful pic and add it to their tree. A professional would find out the source first before displaying wrong information or pictures so that in the end so many people will swear this is John Flute simply because you displayed.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Joseph Goebbels I have seen this happen on this website. Historically, long before we were born misinformation was perpetrated perhaps erroneously, and the misinformation continues to this day, just because it was repeated over and over again.
I hope the people you messaged will get back to you. If they don't it is because they do not know about this pic either. LOL
Lavanah
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 8, 2014 22:10:36 GMT -5
AN INDIAN PATRIARCH.
Chief Cloudman or Man-of-the-sky, was one of the strongest characters among the natives on the headwaters of the Mississippi in the earlier half of the nineteenth century. He was one of the leading chiefs of the Santee band of Sioux Indians. He was born about 1780. He was brave in battle, wise in council, and possessed many other noble qualities, which caused him to rise far above his fellow chieftains. He possessed a large fund of common sense. Years prior to the advent of the white man in this region, he regarded hunting and fishing as a too precarious means to a livelihood, and attempted to teach his people agriculture and succeeded to a limited extent. It was a strange circumstance that prompted the chief to this wise action. On a hunting tour in the Red River country, with a part of his band, they were overtaken by a drifting storm and remained, for several days, under the snow, without any food whatsoever. While buried in those drifts, he resolved to rely, in part, upon agriculture, for subsistence, if he escaped alive, and he carried out his resolution, after the immediate peril was passed. His band cultivated small fields of quickly maturing corn, which had been introduced by their chief in the early 30's. He was respected and loved by his people and quite well obeyed.
Before the coming of the missionaries he taught and enforced, by his example, this principle, namely, that it as wrong to kill non-combatants, or to kill under any circumstances in time of peace. He favored peace rather than war. He was twenty-five years of age, and had six notches on the handle of his tomahawk, indicating that he had slain half a dozen of his Ojibway foes before he adopted this human policy.
His own band lived on the shores of Lakes Calhoun and Harriet, within the present limits of Minneapolis . On the present site of lovely Lakewood— Minneapolis' most fashionable cemetery—was his village of several hundred savages, and also an Indian burial place. This village was the front guard against the war parties of the Ojibways—feudal enemies of the Sioux—but finally as their young men were killed off in battle, they were compelled to remove and join their people on the banks of the Minnesota and farther West. He located his greatly reduced band at Bloomington , directly west of his original village. This removal occurred prior to 1838. He was never hostile to the approach of civilization or blind to the blessings it might confer on his people.
He was one of the first of his tribe to accept the white man's ways and to urge his band to follow his example. This fact is confirmed by the great progress his descendants have made.
He was the first Sioux Indian of any note to welcome those first pioneer missionaries, the Pond brothers. As early as 1834 he encouraged them to erect their home and inaugurate their work in his village. In all the treaties formed between the government and the Sioux, he was ever the ready and able advocate of the white man's cause. He threw all the weight of his powerful influence in favor of cession to the United States government of the military reservation on which Fort Snelling now stands. He died at Fort Snelling in 1863, and was buried on the banks of the Minnesota in view of the fort.
He was the father of seven children, all of whom are dead, except his son David Weston, his successor in the chieftainship, who still lives at Flandreau , South Dakota, at the age of seventy-eight years. He was for many years a catechist of the Episcopal Church. His two daughters were called Hushes-the-Night and Stands-like-a-Spirit. They were once the belles of Lake Harriet , to whom the officers and fur traders paid homage. Hushes-the-Night married a white man named Lamont and became the mother of a child called Jane. She had one sister, who died childless, in St. Paul, in 1901. Jane Lamont married Star Titus, a nephew of the Pond brothers. They became the parents of three sons and two daughters. Two of these sons are bankers and rank among the best business men of North Dakota. They are recognized as leaders among the whites. The other son is a farmer near Tracy , Minnesota . Stands-Like-a-Spirit was the mother of one daughter, Mary Nancy Eastman, whose father, Captain Seth Eastman, was stationed at Fort Snelling— 1830-36. Mary Nancy married Many Lightnings, a fullblood, one of the leaders of the Wahpeton-Sioux. They became the parents of four sons and one daughter. After Many Lightnings became a Christian, he took his wife's name, Eastman, instead of his own, and gave all his children English names. John the eldest, and Charles Alexander, the youngest son, have made this branch of the Cloudman family widely and favorably known.
John Eastman, at twenty-six years of age, became a Presbyterian minister, and for more than a quarter of a century has been the successful pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Flandreau , South Dakota. He was for many years a trusty Indian agent at that place. He is a strong factor in Indian policy and politics. He has had a scanty English education in books, but he has secured an excellent training, chiefly by mingling with cultured white people.
His proud statement once was; "every adult member of the Flandreau band is a professing Christian, and every child of school age is in school." During the "Ghost Dance War," in 1890, his band remained quietly at home, busy about their affairs. In the spring of 1891, they divided $40,000 among themselves.
Charles Alexander Eastman was born in 1858, in Minnesota , the ancestral home of the Sioux, and passed the first fifteen years of his life in the heart of the wilds of British America, enjoying to the full, the free, nomadic existence of his race. During all this time, he lived in a teepee of buffalo skins, subsisted upon wild rice and the fruits of the chase, never entered a house nor heard the English language spoken, and was taught to distrust and hate the white man.
The second period (third) of his life was spent in school and college, where after a short apprenticeship in a mission school, he stood shoulder to shoulder, with our own youth, at Beloit , Knox, Dartmouth and the Boston university. He is an alumnus of Dartmouth of '87 and of Boston University , department of medicine, of '90.
During the last fifteen years, he has been a man of varied interests and occupations, a physician, missionary, writer and speaker of wide experience and, for the greater part of the time, has held an appointment under the government.
At his birth he was called "Hakadah" or "The Pitiful Last," as his mother died shortly after his birth. He bore this sad name till years afterwards he was called Ohiyesa, "The Winner," to commemorate a great victory of La Crosse, the Indian's favorite game, won by his band, "The Leaf Dwellers," over their foes, the Ojibways. When he received this new name, the leading medicine man thus exhorted him: "Be brave, be patient and thou shalt always win. Thy name is "Ohiyesa the Winner."" The spirit of his benediction seems to follow and rest upon him in his life-service.
His grandmother was "Stands-Like-a-Spirit," the second daughter of the old chief Cloudman. His full-blooded Sioux father was a remarkable man in many ways and his mother, a half-blood woman, was the daughter of a well-known army officer. She was the most beautiful woman of the "Leaf Dwellers" band. By reason of her great beauty, she was called "Demi-Goddess of the Sioux." Save for her luxuriant, black hair, and her deep black eyes, she had every characteristic of Caucasian descent. The motherless lad was reared by his grandmother and an uncle in the wilds of Manitoba , where he learned thoroughly, the best of the ancient folk lore, religion and woodcraft of his people. Thirty years of civilization have not dimmed his joy in the life of the wilderness nor caused him to forget his love and sympathy for the primitive people and the animal friends, who were the intimates of his boyhood.
He is very popular as a writer for the leading magazines. "His Recollections of Wild Life" in St. Nicholas, and his stories of "Wild Animals" in Harper, have entertained thousands of juvenile as well as adult readers. His first book, "Indian boyhood," which appeared in 1902, has passed through several editions, and met with hearty appreciation. "Red Hunters and the Animal People," published in 1904, bids fair to be, at least, equally popular.
During the last two years, he has lectured in many towns from Maine to California and he is welcomed everywhere. His specialty is the customs, laws, religion, etc., of the Sioux. Witty, fluent, intellectual, trained in both methods of education, he is eminently fitted to explain, in an inimitable and attractive manner, the customs, beliefs and superstitions of the Indian. He describes not only the life and training of the boy, but the real Indian as no white man could possibly do. He brings out strongly the red man's wit, music, poetry and eloquence. He also explains graphically from facts gained from his own people, the great mystery of the battle of the Little Big Horn in which the gallant Custer and brave men went to their bloody death.
He was married in 1891 at New York City, to Miss Elaine Goodale, a finely cultured young lady from Massachusetts , herself a poetess and prose writer of more than ordinary ability.
They have lived very happily together ever since and are the parents of five lovely children. They have lived in Washington and St. Paul and are now residents of Amherst , Massachusetts . Whether in his physician's office, in his study, on the lecture platform, in the press or in his own home, Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman is a most attractive personality.
Source:
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Among the Sioux, by R. J. Creswell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg Lic
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 8, 2014 22:08:22 GMT -5
It is very doubtful that you will find a drawing or photo of Chief Cloudman as the camera was not invented until 1816. Images of Indians did not come about until the late 1850's. He died in 1863 so he was probably passed by. His daughter, Hushes the Night, married Daniel LaMont. This is what I have on this union: Daniel Lamont: (1798/99 - 1837) He was the son of Colin Lamont Sr. & Jane Smith of Greenock, Scotland, baptized on 24 April 1798 at Greenock. He married 1st.to Hushes ("The Night") (daughter of Dakota Lake Calhoun Band Chief, Cloudman) before 1824 and married 2nd.to Margaret [he was the son-in-law of Markpeemanee / "Walking-Cloud" who was an "old" Sisseton Chief in 1824], his children were: Jane (m.Moses J.Titus in 1867), Colin & Charles. Daniel was working on Lord Selkirk's Red River Colony, but about January of 1817 returned home to Scotland by a Hudson Bay ship. He was back on the Red River in 1820/21, trading for the Hudson Bay Co.and in 1821/22 at Lac Traverse with Robert Dickson, Joseph Renville, Kenneth McKenzie & William S.Laidlow, where he co-founded the Columbia Fur Company. He was at St.Louis, where he apparently resided, in June of 1822 when he filed his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States. In 1826 he was at Fort Factory at the mouth of the Minnesota River and in the Upper Missouri Outfit the next year. In 1832 he was at Fort Tecumseh (Ft.Pierre) on the Missouri River, but in 1835 he quit the Upper Missouri Outfit. The following is from his Will & Testament which he wrote at Fort Pierre on the Missouri in November of 1834: "...First I direct that in event of my dying in the Civilized World or at any of the Establishments of the Upper Missouri Outfit of which I am at present a Member my Body shall be Committed to its Mother Earth from whence it came with decency but no Parade; and with the usual forms of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in which I was Baptised and in infancy reared, tho' agreeably to the interpretation of its tenates in Missouri I cannot be a Member thereof: And as to such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to Intrust me with I dispose of the same as follows...I further direct that the Sum of Two Thousand Dollars shall be paid by my Executors to my much esteem'd Friend William Laidlaw at present one of associates in business out of the first Moneys accruing from my interest in the Upper Missouri Outfit...And I do hereby make and ordain my much esteem'd friends Pierre Chouteau Jr. and George Collier Esquires of St.Louis aforesaid Executors of this my Will and testament..." users.usinternet.com/dfnels/l amont.htm
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 8, 2014 21:44:04 GMT -5
I made a comment on the Black Hawk Flies Away Finley Flute Hillers Weston Chinn Family Tree and requested that they give a source for this photo. So we will see.
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 8, 2014 21:38:59 GMT -5
No he did not have a family as far as I know. He died very young, 18 yrs. He may have had Indian patent land and that is how you inherited his land.
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 5, 2014 19:10:28 GMT -5
Amos Feather Birth Apr 1892 in South Dakota Death 22 Nov 1909 in Bon Homme, South Dakota
FATHER: Isaac "Tasunkewanjina" Feather Birth abt 1848 in South Dakota
MOTHER: Ellen "Tunkanmaniwin" Feather Birth abt 1853 in Yankton Reservation, South Dakota
SIBLINGS: Margaret "Hanyetuwastewin" Feather Birth abt 1858 in Minnesota
Louis "Louie" "Wamniyomnikoyakena" Feather Birth abt 1867 in South Dakota
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Apr 29, 2014 19:22:51 GMT -5
Amos "Tasunkewanjina" Feather Birth abt 1892 in South Dakota Death 22 Nov 1909 in Bon Homme, South Dakota
His father was: Isaac "Tasunkewanjina" Feather Birth abt 1848 in South Dakota Death ? Isaac's father was a Feather of the Yankton Sioux and his mother was unknown win of the Wahpekute tribe.
Amos's mother was: Ellen "Tunkanmaniwin" Feather a Santee Sioux Birth abt 1853 Death ?
SIBLINGS:
Margaret "Hanyetuwastewin" Feather Birth abt 1858 in Minnesota Death ?
Amos "Tasunkewanjina" Feather Birth abt 1892 in South Dakota Death 22 Nov 1909 in Bon Homme, South Dakota
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Jun 10, 2013 17:56:30 GMT -5
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 7, 2013 22:56:00 GMT -5
I can't believe it! I prayed that our message be taken on the four winds so that the relatives of those buried there will not forget them.
I just found out that USA Today a nationwide publication published the Argus Leader article. This means people are now reading about HIIA all over the U.S. Our dream is to have representatives from each nation/tribe (49) to come and hoist their tribal flag on that hill surrounding the cemetery.
Please join me in that prayer to bring light to where for so long there has been nothing but darkness.
Pidamaya
Lavanah
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 6, 2013 20:33:40 GMT -5
Wounded Knee: Deadline approaches By Brandon Ecoffey Native Sun News Managing Editor
RAPID CITY—Very seldom does a story about Indian country garner international attention, especially one that broke in an Indian newspaper.
The story of the sale of the historical site of Wounded Knee has traveled beyond the borders of the United States and with the approaching May 1 deadline for the tribe to buy, the entire world has turned their attention to the Pine Ridge Indian reservation. Many tribal advocates made note of the national media attention surrounding the recently passed Violence against Women act. Tribal political pundits like Ryan Wilson (Oglala Lakota) noted that for the first time in living memory legislation impacting Indian country was at the forefront of the national news cycle. For those with a significant Native American following on Facebook and Twitter, the days leading up to the passage of the bill were filled with postings urging both lawmakers and friends to speak out in favor of the bill.
One could only imagine how social media would have responded had it been available in the 1970’s during the occupation of Wounded Knee and after the unfortunate murder of the two FBI agents in the nearby town of Oglala mere miles away.
The proposed sale of the historical site of Wounded Knee by landowner Jim Czywczynksi has surpassed VAWA in interest and is now trending globally. The story has been covered by the New York Times, USA today, Los Angeles Times, the British Broadcasting Network, ABC news Australia, CNN, and most recently 11 newspapers from Germany, who will run their story on the sale this week.
Many news outlets in the U.S are now attempting to tap in to their limited resources on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for information on everything from how the people on the reservation feel about the proposed sale, what the Oglala Sioux tribal government plans on doing, and if Jim Czywczynski has had any real offers on the land.
The Oglala Sioux tribe has so far held their position that the $4.9 million dollar asking price for the two forty-acre tracts of land is just too much for the Oglala Sioux Tribe to pay. This position has been reiterated by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council representatives from the Wounded Knee District, economic development officials for the tribe, and community members.
However, according to a representative from the BBC, a high ranking member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Executive branch stated that the tribe does have an outside investor who is interested in buying the land on behalf of the tribe. According to the source the tribe is currently preparing to make an offer on the land.
The community seems to be split as to what action should be taken in regards to the land. The Wounded Knee Survivor’s Association, who speaks for a small number of the descendants of those who were killed at Wounded Knee, believes that the land should not be developed or purchased, or even sold. The group has stated publicly that their wish would be for Mr. Czywczynski to simply hand the land over to the tribe as a donation.
“We cannot support any development or exploitation of the land. For us as Lakota we cannot sell the sacred,” said Nathan Blindman of the Wounded Knee Survivors association.
The land is within the boundaries of the reservation but the tribe has no ownership rights over the land that is the private property of Czywczynski. In the early part of the 19th century huge portions of reservation lands fell into the hands of non-Natives during a process called allotment that parceled out the land on the reservation to individual Indians.
Some tribal members during that time sold their allotment to white homesteaders. The excess 40 acre plots of land that were still available after the land was distributed to tribal members were opened up to homesteaders. The policy of allotment was originally intended to introduce Native peoples across the country the concept of private ownership and to essentially convert them to farmers and ranchers is now looked at as a failure. It was ended in 1934.
The group has acknowledged that they do not speak for the rest of the descendants of Wounded Knee, the majority of which are from the Cheyenne River Reservation and are part of the Mni Cojou band of Lakota. What has been left out of many of the major networks stories about Wounded Knee is that the people and government on the Pine Ridge reservation are part of the Oglala band of Lakota, a different band than Chief Big Foot and the rest of the people massacred there in 1890.
The Mni Cojou Lakota today are concentrated on the Cheyenne River Reservation in central South Dakota. Recently a representative of the Mni Cojou Lakota spoke out on the sale. Joe Brings Plenty, a former Cheyenne River Sioux tribal president, and the youngest person in the tribe’s history to hold the position spoke out on the issue in an op-ed piece in the New York Times. In the article he called upon President Obama to fulfill his promise to uphold the trust responsibility and buy the land for preservation as a national monument.
“The federal government should buy this land and President Obama should then preserver it as a national monument – just as he did last month at five federally owned sites around the country, including one in Maryland honoring Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad,” wrote Brings Plenty.
The federal government who is responsible for upholding the trust relationship has said nothing on the issue. It seems unlikely at this point that they would be willing to come forward and buy the land on behalf of the tribe. As of today the owner of the land has said that he will not move the May 1 deadline on the land back for any reason. So far Birdnecklace LLC, a renewable energy company owned by Oglala Sioux tribal member William Birdnecklace, was the only entity to make a public offering on the land. However after a short negotiation on the terms of the purchase Birdnecklace LLC quickly rescinded their offer to buy the land.
William Birdnecklace the CEO of the company has not been heard from or seen since. Although Birdnecklace LLC backed off their intention to buy the land, Czywczynski does not have a shortage of buyers willing to buy the land.
“I have two groups out of California, one from overseas who have made offers on the land and I am expecting more once the BBC and ABC Australia air their stories,” he said. “I have told them however that I will not entertain these offers until after the May 1, deadline. I just hope the tribe will step up and find a way to buy it,” added Czywczynski.
(Contact Brandon Ecoffey at staffwriter2@nsweekly.com)
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 5, 2013 23:20:05 GMT -5
Lavanah, My name is Trent Snaza and I live in Sioux Falls. I just read the Argus Leader article about the Hiawatha. I have lived in South Dakota my whole life and I did not know there was a Native American Insane Asylum in Canton, until about a month ago when I was trying to research the Yankton Insane Asylum on the internet and came accross the Hiawatha. Call me weird but I find Insane Asylum's interesting. They treated them poor people like crap, and they need to be remembered. I think what you are doing is awesome!! Native Americans have such a rich history not just in South Dakota but all over this country. My background is Poland, Native American's background is North America. I find that to be interesting and amazing!! Thank you very much for your time and good luck
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 5, 2013 16:10:06 GMT -5
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on May 1, 2013 22:36:45 GMT -5
UPDATE ON THE HIIA CEREMONY
FT RANDALL (YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE) HAS DONATED FRY BREAD FOR 100 PEOPLE, 200 PIECES!
WAKAN TANKA PIDAMAYA.
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Apr 30, 2013 21:15:27 GMT -5
The Hiawatha Golf Course is supplying all of the coffee, tea, and sodas for the lunch. As well as all the dishes and tableware. They have given us the kitchen to make fry bread. And, all of the Canton churches are making the extras like salad and chips to go with the lunch.
Thank you, thank you.
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Apr 30, 2013 18:20:22 GMT -5
Here are pictures of Lakota Estes from Lower Brule, who will be honoring us with his gift of the flute. He also said he is bringing friends from Ft Thompson. Uploaded with ImageShack.usUploaded with ImageShack.us
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Apr 28, 2013 18:26:24 GMT -5
HIAWATHA INDIAN INSANE ASYLUM
SACRED BURIAL GROUNDS HEALING AND PRAYER CEREMONY Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 12 noon The annual ceremony will be held in the town of Canton at the Hiawatha Country Club Golf Course between the 4th and 5th holes, located 18 miles southeast of Sioux Falls, off of Highway 18 East. Harold Iron Shield, Yankton Sioux, blessed be his memory, and founding member of Native American Reburial Restoration Committee began this annual event in 1989 and kept it alive until his death in 2008. It has now been revived to honor and give our prayers of peace and healing to those buried there. Everyone is welcome to attend. =================================== In 1902, the U.S. Government opened the Hiawatha Insane Asylum for American Indians only. The purpose was to care for those members of tribes all over the U.S. who were allegedly insane. The asylum was operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Indians who made up the population of the asylum were those Indians seen by the Government as "trouble makers"--spiritual leaders, medicine men, vision quest seekers, those who resisted reservation boundaries and boarding school students who did not conform to school policies. Today the 121 bodies from 48 tribes and nations are interred at the burial ground they were the Hiawatha patients who died in the so called hospital and could not be returned to their families lie in state in what is now the Hiawatha Country Club golf course. Just off the fourth fairway one will find a split rail fence surrounding the small cemetery, a monument sits in its middle bearing the names of those interred there. - A ceremony calling out the names of those known buried there with a prayer ribbon for each name will be tied to the rail fence in their honor with a final prayer for peace and healing will be offered. 48 flags of the tribes and nations of those buried will be posted on the fence.
-Bring cedar, sweet grass, and sage for smudging, and tobacco for offering; a special token rock to lay it at the plaque of names as remembrance. -Dress Code: Traditional if you have it; no sandals or shorts; women please wear dresses. RISING HAIL, a Yankton Sioux group, will be singing and drumming. LAKOTA ESTES flutist of Lower Brule will play. Please help get the word out. Send this flyer to your tribal and community leaders, friends and relatives, even if you know they would be unable to come. Buffalo lunch to be served post ceremony in the club house for a $3 donation. For more information contact: Lavanah Judah - lavanah.judah@gmail.com 605-260-1853 Michelle Anderson - onedla@sio.midco.net
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Mar 5, 2013 17:59:01 GMT -5
The tribal council approved of a donation of 100 lbs of buffalo meat...we won't be processing any buffalo until the 14th, after this is completed, we will notify you as to when the meat can be picked up Lisa Arrow Administrative Officer Yankton Sioux Tribe
Dear YST Business Committee and Lisa Arrow,
In the name of Harold Iron Shield, blessed be his memory, we are so thankful and proud of the YST Business Committee for stepping up to the plate and donating to the Hiawatha Annual Prayer and Healing Ceremony 100 lbs of buffalo for the feast after the ceremony on May 19th.
We invite the business committee and all who work at the tribal office to come and be a part of this beautiful ceremony.
The Ojibwe are traveling from their country to the land of the Sioux and we do want to welcome them with honor and open hearts.
Our hearts are full---as will be our stomachs!
Mitakuye pidamaya De yuonihan Yuhapi c'ante was'te Wopida unkenic'eyapi
Thank you, all my relatives For this honor With a good heart We thank you
Mitakuye Oyasin: We Are All Related
Lavanah Judah HinhanNagiWin Spirit of the Owl Woman
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Mar 1, 2013 12:54:51 GMT -5
Dear Cousins,
I have just been informed to relate to everyone that fasting for 24 hours prior to the ceremony would be a good thing to promote a connection to the Great Spirit. Please pass on the word as we do want to make this a very special ceremony.
Regarding lunch, Jerry Fogg of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, will be getting buffalo and cooking that over a pit and then preparing sandwiches. There will be others bring potluck salads and desserts etc. all for a $3 donation. This will be served after the ceremony in the club house.
This year were are proud to welcome into our land people from the Ojibwe family of tribes. We are so looking forward to having them and hope that this is the beginning of many other tribes coming to the land of the Great Sioux Nation for this ceremony. Wakan Tanka Pidamaya.
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Post by Spirit of the Owl Woman on Feb 12, 2013 23:22:43 GMT -5
Dear Connie,
I have the earliest known Ducharme's on my family website dating from Laurent DuCharme, born abt 1775 in Montreal, Canada. Cuthbert Papineau DuCharme b. 1825 was the "squaw man" who is the patriarch of all the DuCharme's from the Rosebud rez. He was married twice; first to Ellen DuCharme, b. 1835 and then to Theresa Latina "Istaziwin" LeCompte, b. 1830.
You can email me and I will let you view my family tree with pics and stories of the DuCharme family. Although, my site does not include anyone born after 1938 and it consists of 11k + of people.
Also, and very, very important is what dates are we looking at for these DuCharme relatives. When inquiring on this site it is very important to give as much info as possible of what you know about these persons.
Lavanah
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