Running Antelope (Sioux Chief on Last Great Buffalo Hunt)
Welch notes concerning Running Antelope, undated: Chief Grass advised that Running Antelope, in the opinion of the Indians, probably eclipsed John Grass as an orator. Running Antelope was chief on the last great Buffalo Hunt, Sept– Oct. 1883. He died about 1894 and is buried at Little Eagle, on the Standing Rock Reservation. Running Antelope Bede Using Arrow, Yanktonaise, talks to Welch, Nov 24, 1926: This really means Runner of Antelope. His father was a Hunkpapa Teton and his mother was of the Teton branch, the Sihasapa, or Black feet. He had six brothers, one of whom was Rain in the Face. Of these seven men, five of them became Chiefs during their lifetime. Hunting, The Last Buffalo Hunts, 1882, 1883 Letter relating to the ‘Great Buffalo Hunt’ of June 1882,...
Read MoreRed Fish, Yanktonaise Sioux Chief (Col. A.B.Welch’s interviews 1910’s and 1920’s)
Welch notes about Red Fish, probably mid 1920’s: Hogan Luta (Red Fish), a son of the Red Fish who was an Oglala Chief in 1849 and who lost his influence and position on account of the failure of his war party against the Crows, lives on the Cannon Ball River on the Standing Rock, N.D., and has often come the entire distance to Bismarck and Mandan to see me and talk. Red Fish Photo and Information on the Back He is a chief of a small band, not easily identified now, but he has little power or direct influence, especially among the younger element but considerable among the older people. On dance occasions I have frequently seen him with a buffalo head-dress, and he often dances on the extreme outside of the circle, and watches the distance and shades his eyes as...
Read MoreDrags Wolf, Head Chief of the Hidatsa (Gros Ventre)…….(Col. A. B. Welch interviews with his ‘Old Friend’)
Photo taken at Fargo, N.D., Feb. 10th, 1934. Head Chief of the Hidatsa (Gros Ventre). Lives at the Shell Village on the Missouri river, south of Van Hook, N.D. About 65 years of age. His father was Crow Flies High, who selected the site of the village. Drags Wolf talks to Welch, Feb. 10, 1934 Present: Chief Drags Wolf, Hidatsa Chief (Head), Chief Bears Arm, Hidatsa Chief (Second), Good Bird, Interpreter. His Story of “Scorched Village” “This village was close to Washburn, on a little creek there. That was a long time ago. It was a Gros Ventre Village. It got its name this way. One time an arrow came from the sky. It fell inside the village. It went into the ground very deep. A little of it stuck up through the earth. That part of it looked like it had...
Read MoreRed Tomahawk, “Sitting Bull was my friend, I killed him like this……..”
Welch Biographical Summary of Red Tomahawk, August 1931: Born – “The winter when we found a dead Indian in a log House.” My Winter Count shows this to be 1849-1850. Age – “I was 16 years of age when we ran off those cattle at Fort Rice.” That was in 1866. Father – “Strikes the Earth (Maka Apape), a Sihasapa Sioux.” Sept. 1915 he refers to his father as Iron Tail, a Sihasapa Sioux. Mother – “Was a Hunkpapa.” Oct 9, 1915 he refers to his mother as a Sissetonwana. Married – “First wife was Blue Earth Woman (Maka Towin), a Hunkpapa. She was of the family of Rain in the Face, being daughter of his youngest sister. Her father was Red Thunder...
Read MoreTribal History Notes on the Mandan as told to Col A. B. Welch
A Mandan’s story of his Tribe by Sitting Crow, 1920 … A Story of Mandan Traditions by Crows Heart, 1921 … Indian Village Sites, Berthold to Fort Yates…1902-07 Investigation … Mih-Tutta-Hang-Kush Village Welch article, 1922 Welch article, 1926 Burnt Village, 1923 article Federated Villages of Fort Berthold 1868, drawn from memory by Larned, 1926 Early Mandan Village Sites, Welch notations on 1911 Geol. Survey Map Crying Hill Village Mandan Daily Pioneer article by Welch, 1924 Pre-Mandan Fortifications, comments by Welch, 1931 Old Mandan Villages, talk...
Read MoreTribal History Notes on the Hidatsa (Gros Ventre) as told to Col. A. B. Welch
How They came to live on the West Side of the Missouri (1925) How the Gros Ventre were split into two bands and the Crows formed (1925) Gros Ventre Scouts and Soldiers (July 1923 letter to Welch) Gros Ventre in the A.E.F. (WWI in France) Hairy Chin’s version of the split and formation of Crows (1921) Joe Packineau’s version of the split and formation of Crows (1923) The Gros Ventre ambush the Chippewas story (Packineau, 1923) Meaning of Hidatsa (Packineau, 1923) Ceremonies of the Hidatsa, Sanish, N.D., Aug. 4-6, 1927 Hidatsaati Village...
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