JEANNE
SMITH COLLECTION
GROUP 1 – PINE RIDGE RESERVATION FAMILY
AND
COMMUNITY HISTORIES, 1991
Folder: 1 File
Title: Anonymous File
Number: 1
Subject: Religion--Ghost Dance; and History--Early
Sioux Territory, Great Sioux Uprising, Survivor of Seventh Calvary, Sioux in
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota.
Secondary Information: Transcript; AIRP #0125; Date: April 1964; Tape
removed to AIRP Audio Collection,
Interviewer: James Jurrens
Folder: 2 File
Title: Anonymous File
Number: 2
Subject: History--Cheyenne/Army Battles (Little Big
Horn, Washita), personal history, Cheyenne Participants in Little Big Horn,
Arikaras in 7th
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary information: AIRP #0471; Date: 1969; Tape removed to AIRP Audio Collection,
Interviewer: Margot Liberty
Folder: 3 File
Title: Archambault, Alfred File Number: 3
Subject: Correspondence concerning the location of the
bridge and trading post of Alfred Archambault west of
Source:
Secondary information: Mentions an article concerning this location
in the Annals of
Names mentioned: Alfred Archambault, Pierre A. Archambault, Mrs., James Harfrornd, Leon Archambault.
Folder: 4 File
Title:
Subject: Biographical Sketch of Geminien Beauvais
Source:
Names Mentioned: Pierre Beauvais, Marie Brosseau, Pierre Menard, J. Baptiste Janis, Francis Augustin Beauvais, Joseph Robideaux, Marie Lousie Montardy, Adriene Lee, Samuel Deon, Thomas Dorian, Leon Pallardy, William F. Lee, Edward Beauvais, Ecoffey and Cuny, Mary Robidoux, Red Cloud, Robert Campbell.
Folder: 5 File
Title: Bellecourt,
Subject:
Religion--Prayer in Sioux, Medicine Prophecies;
Organizations--American Indian Movement (AIM), Formation, Goals, Support, Opposition,
Russell Means, National Council of Churches, National Alliance, John Birch
Society; History--Death of Pedro Bissonette, Wounded Knee Occupation,
Occupation of Augustana College Dormitory, Occupation of BIA Building,
Watergate; Economics--Fund Raising for Indian Causes (Minnesota Church); Bureau
of Indian Affairs--Hiring Policies; Education--Minnesota Student Attrition, AIM
Survival Schools, AIM Educational Campaign; Legal Systems-- Legal
Representation (Minnesota), Wounded Knee Legal Defense Office, Federal Agents.
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Date:
Interviewer: Suzanne Julin
Folder: 6 File
Title: Bettelyoun, Isaac File Number: 6
Subject: Curatorial Records:
Source:
Secondary Information: Ledger sheets
Names Mentioned: Isaac Bettelyoun
Folder: 7 File
Title: Big Crow, Seth File Number: 7
Subject: Religion--Yuwipi Ceremony, Funeral Peyote
Song, Peyote Funeral, New Years Indian Song; History--Little Big Horn, Chief
Iron Shell, Relationship with Chief Eagle
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Date: 1963; AIRP #0102B; Transcript; TAPE IS MISSING
Interviewer: James Jurrens
Folder: MISSING
File Title: Big Rib
File Number: 8
Subject: An article in the Triangles Review
(now the Fort Collins Review) discussing what is known about Big Rib,
who was said at times to be Oglala and at other times to be half
Source: Jeanne Smith Collection
Names Mentioned: Red Cloud, Big Mouth, Eagle Foot, Whirlwind, Little Crow, Conquering Bear, Two Antelope, Irma Robinson Miller, Ben (Claymore) Lessert, Emilile Chatillion, Bear Robe, Bull Bear, Louis Benjamin Lessert (Ben Claymore), Sam Deon, Antoine Janis, John Provost--Son in law of Black Elk, William Denver McGaa.
Folder: 8 File
Title: Bissonette, Joseph File Number: 9
Subject: Biographical sketch, The Bissonette Family, Interview with Edmond Bissonette (1963), 1961 Probates Records of Fred Bissonett, "Joseph Bissonette's Last Trading Post" by Charles Hansen, Jr.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Biographical Sketch: John Richard, Sr., James Bordeaux, Charles
Primeau, John Provo, Thomas Twiss, Nick Janis, Ecoffey Brothers Adolph Cuny,
G.P. Beauvais, Red Cloud, spotted Tail.
The Bissonette Family: Frank
Aplan, Joseph Bissonette, Louis Bissonette, Jacque Bissonette, Pedro Visonette,
Franciso Visonette, Francis Janis, Nick Janis, Louis Visonette. Interview with
Folder: 9 File
Title: Black Horse,
Subject: History--Personal History
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Spoken in Lakota; AIRP #0373; Date:
Folder: 10 File
Title:
Subject: Letter to A.B. Guthrie; Biographical Sketches;
Ledger records from
Source:
Names Mentioned: Letter to A.B. Guthrie: Jim Bordeaux, Ernest Bordeaux, Joe
Picotte. Museum of the Fur Trade
Quarterly: Chief Whirlwind, Joseph
Picotte, John Richard, Pierre Chouteau, Mr. Beauvais, Guerrier, Seth Ward,
Louis Bordeaux (son), Bear Chief of Wazhazha, Marie Bordeaux (wife), Little
Thunder, Big Pratizan, Man who is Afraid of His Horses, Sefory Lott, Joseph
Jewett, Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun, Antoine Ladeaux, Siblings of Susan
Bordeaux: (Louise, Antoine, William,
John Alexander), Todd Randall, William Garnett, Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Swift
Bear, Little Wound, Lone Dog, Crazy Horse, Rain in the Face. John McDermott article:
Folder: 11 File
Title: Brave, George File
Number: 12
Subject: History--Personal History, Battles (Little Big Horn), Custer, Boss Farmers, Indian Police Early 1900's; Government--Land Allotments, Tribal Land Enterprise, Rations; Agriculture--Farming; and Culture--Legends, Stories.
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Date:
Interviewer: George Nielsen
Folder: 12 File
Title: Brennan, Jere L. File Number: 13
Subject: History--Wounded Knee (1973) Reconstruction, Burning of the Catholic Church; Bureau of Indian Affairs--Relief Program (Food, Water, Electricity, Housing, Sanitation); Legal systems--Law Enforcement, Federal Marshals, Justice Department; Social--Factionalism, Rumors of Reoccupation; Government--Tribal Government, District Committee; and Organizations--American Indian Movement (AIM), Attitudes Towards.
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Date:
Interviewer: Joseph Cash
Folder: 13 File
Title: Bull Tail File
Number: 14
Subject: Brief Biographical Sketch
Source: Museum of the Fur Trade
Names Mentioned: Bull Bear, Scattering Bear, Louis Chartrain, Red Leaf, Little Thunder, Iron Shell.
Folder: 14 File
Title: Catches, Pete File
Number: 15
Subject: Religion--Sacred Pipe, Sun Dance, Medicine Man
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Rough transcript; Date:
Folder: 15 File
Title: Census Lists: Red Cloud's and Others File Number: 16
Subject: A list of the members of the various bands
who accompanied Red Cloud to "expedite the move of Crazy Horse's Band to
Source: Museum of the Fur Trade
Names Mentioned: The 1877 census lists numerous members of the
following bands: Red Cloud Band, Little
Wound's Band, Yellow Bear's Band, Young Man Afraid of his Horses Band, American
Horse Band, Red Dog's Band, Slow Bull's Band, No Water Band, Red Leaf's Band,
and three non-Indians: Antoine Ladeaux,
Antoine Janis, Joseph Merrival. The 1883
list is of
Folder: 16 File
Title: Claymore, Basil File Number: 17
Subject: History--Personal history, Account of Basil Claymore American Fur Company, General Freemont; and Military--Service.
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Date: July
1969; AIRP 30521; Tape removed to AIRP Audio Collection,
Folder: 17 File
Title: Cornelius, Bessie File Number: 18
Subject: History--Wounded Knee Occupation (Destruction), Wounded Knee Museum Artifacts Stolen, Ralph Abernathy Visit, Gerald One Feather; Living Conditions--Reservation; Organizations--American Indian Movement (Support); Media--Wounded Knee Coverage Unrealistic, Dick Cavett, Marlon Brando; Religion--Medicine Man, Sun Dance; Social--Traditionalists, Factionalism, Indian/Black Prejudices, Hippies, Indian/White Relations; Government--Tribal Government, Treaty Council, Richard Wilson, Roles of James Abourezk, Ramon Roubideaux, George McGovern, James Abnor, Federal Officials; Economics--Trading Post; Legal Systems--FBI Phone Tapping; Religion--National Council of Churches, Denominational Boards, Medicine Man; Politics--Russell Means Possible Candidacy for Tribal Chairman; and Education--Indian Boarding School, Funding.
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Date:
Folder: 18 File
Title: Cournoyer, Pearl File Number: 19
Subject: Education--Holy Rosary
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary Information: Date:
Folder: 19 File
Title: Crazy Horse File Number: 20
Subject: Brief Biographical Sketch
Source: Museum of the Fur Trade
Names Mentioned: Man Afraid of His Horses, Young Man Afraid of
His Horses, Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, No Water, Gall, Lame Deer, Little Big
Folder: 20 File
Title: Crazy Horse: Burial of
File Number: 21
Subject: A variety of articles describing the burial of Crazy Horse. Many different versions.
Source:
Names Mentioned: George Kills in Sight, Mrs., Richard Stirk, Standing Soldier, Chips, Charles P. Jordon, Black Elk.
Folder: 21 File
Title: Crazy Horse Genealogy File Number: 22
Subject: Summary of the events leading to the stabbing of Crazy Horse (no sources cited); A preliminary genealogical study; sources are documented. Attempts to establish Crazy Horse has no living progeny. Detailed bibliography. Taken from: The Oglala Crazy Horse: A Preliminary Genealogical Study and An Annotated listing of Primary Sources by Richard G. Hardorff.
Source:
Folder: 22 File
Title: Crazy Horse: Conspiracy Against File Number: 23
Subject: A Collection of articles which describe the alleged conspiracy against Crazy Horse by other Oglalas. Includes accounts from Frank Grouard, Big Bat Pourier, Louis Bordeaux, Billy Hunter, William Garnett, A.G. Shaw, Charles Eastman, White Calf, Red Feather, He Dog, and Carrie Slow Bear.
Source:
Folder: 23 File
Title: Crazy Horse: Official Correspondence Relating To File Number: 24
Subject: A collection of letters drawn from the
archives at
Source:
Folder: 24 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Lt. W.P. Clark File Number: 25
Subject: Discussion of
Source:
Folder: 25 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: William Gentles File Number: 26
Subject: A Brief discussion of William Gentles, the
soldier who is alleged to have killed Crazy Horse at
Source:
Names Mentioned: Crazy Horse, Grouard.
Folder: 26 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Bat Pourier's Account File Number: 27
Subject: Material from "Big Bat" Pourier by Hilda Gilbert and the Ricker Tablets
Source:
Names Mentioned: Hilda Gilbert Account: Scrapper (Sioux Scout), Billy Garnett, Fast Thunder, Spotted Tail, Grouard, Louis Bordeaux, Woman's Dress, Chips, Little Big Man, Worm (Crazy Horse's father). Ricker Tablets: Touch the Clouds, Dr. McGillycudy, Worm, Yankton Charlie (Plenty Wolves), No Neck, Bill Garnett, Joe Larrabee, General Crook.
Folder: 27 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Frank Salaway's Account File Number: 28
Subject: Brief material from the Ricker
Tablets: Interview with Frank Salaway who was at
Source:
Names Mentioned: Charley Tacketts, Joe Merrival (father of Charley), Little Big Man
Folder: 28 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: John
Shangrau's Account File Number: 29
Subject: Brief section from the Ricker Tablets concerning the death of Crazy Horse.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Charley Tacketts, Joe Merrival (father of
Charley), Little Big
Folder: 29 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Standing Bear's Account File Number: 30
Subject: Standing Bear's Account of the stabbing of Crazy Horse taken from My People the Sioux.
Source:
Folder: MISSING File Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Plenty Wolves' Involvement File Number: 31
Subject: Two observers comment on the involvement of Plenty Wolves (Yankton Charlie) in the stabbing of Crazy Horse: William Garnett and Bad Heart Bull
Source:
Names Mentioned: Crazy Horse, Little Big Man, Swift Bear, Yankton Charlie, Two Dogs, Red Shirt, Louis Bordeaux, Lt, Cash, Yellow Horse.
Folder: 30 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of American Horse File Number: 32
Subject: Statement taken from the Ricker Tablets and
from an article in
Source:
Names Mentioned: Little Big Man, Lt. W.P. Clarke, Red Cloud, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, American Horse, Yellow Bear, Little Big Man, Big Road, No Water, Three Bears, and No Flesh.
Folder: 31 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye
Witness Account of John Boesl File
Number: 33
Subject: Eyewitness account of John Boesl who
witnessed the killing of Crazy Horse as a boy.
Account is discussed in several articles in the
Source:
Folder: 32 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Louis Bordeaux File Number: 34
Subject: "A Fragment of the History of Crazy Horse" from the Ricker interviews with Louis Bordeaux.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Maj. Burke, Lt. Lee (Jessie Lee), Joe Marrivaill, Charley Tackett (Taggart), White Thunder, Black Crow, Touch the Cloud, Buffalo Chips, Grouard, Good Voice, Swift Bear, High Bear, Little Big Man, Chipps, Charlie Roubidoux, Lt. Clark.
Folder: 33 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Luther P. Bradley File Number: 35
Subject: Bradley's account of the stabbing of Crazy Horse taken from four separate sources; the Luther Bradley Papers (private diary), the Bourke diary, an unidentified statement, a personal letter.
Source:
Folder: 34 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Chipps File
Number: 36
Subject: Material taken from an interview with Chipps (Encouraging Bear) in the Ricker Tablets.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Little Big Man, Turning Bear
Folder: 35 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of William Garnett File Number: 37
Subject: Material taken from four different sources concerning Garnett's memories of the stabbing of Crazy Horse: Report to Scott and McLaughlin, sections from Soldiers of the Plains by P.E. Byrne, material from the Bourke diary, and from The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse edited by Friswold.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Report to Scott and McLaughlin: Red Cloud, Lt. Clark, Baptiste Pourier, Woman
Dress, General Crook, Frank Grouard, Red Cloud, Little Wound, Red Dog, Young
Man Afraid of His Horses, No Flesh, Yellow Bear, High Wolf, Slow Bull, Black
Bear, American Horse, Three Bears, Blue Horse, No Water, Leon Pallidy, He Dog,
Touch the Cloud, Louis Shangreau. Soldiers
of the Plains: Gen. Crook, Lt.
Clark, Woman Dress, Little Wolf, Lone Bear, Major Lee. From the Bourke diary: Gen. Crook, Woman's Dress, Little
Folder: 36 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Frank Grouard File Number: 38
Subject: Material taken from Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard by Joe Debarthe.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Lt. Wm. Pl Clarke, Three Bears, Gen, Cook, Capt. Jessie Lee, Little Big Man, Lone Bear, Hump, Touch the Cloud.
Folder: 37 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of He Dog File
Number: 39
Subject: Material taken from the Himan interviews and Carroll Friswold's The Killing of Crazy Horse.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Lt. Clark, Gen. Crook, American Horse, Turning Bear, Little Big Man, Wooden Sword, Leaper, Standing Buffalo, Dr. McGillycuddy, Whirlwind Bear, Plenty Wolves, He Dog, Shoe Lace, Blaila, Touch the Clouds.
Folder: 38 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Lt. Guy V. Henry File Number: 40
Subject: Selected accounts from the Army and Navy Journal
Source:
Folder: 39 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Sgt. William
Kelley File Number: 41
Subject: Article from the Crawford Tribune
Source:
Folder: 40 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Gen. Jessie M. Lee File
Number: 42
Subject: Lee's account of the stabbing of Crazy Horse
Source:
Names Mentioned: Spotted Tail, Touch the Clouds, Roman Nose, Red Bear, Gen. Crook, Col. Randall, Lt. Philo Clark, Swift Bear, High Bear, Maj. Burke, Louis Bordeaux, Charlie Tackett, Frank Grouard, Joe Merival, Two Strike, White Thunder, Lame Deer, Black Crow, Good Voice, Horned Antelope, Capt. Bradley, Capt. Kennington, Fast Thunder, Maj. Burrowes.
Folder: 41 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Lucy Lee File Number: 43
Subject: Sections of letters from the wife of General Jessie Lee printed in Nebraska History and Crazy Horse: The Invincible Sioux Chief by Brininstool.
Source:
Folder: 42 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Lt. H.R. Lemly File Number: 44
Subject: Selections from material printed in the Journal of Military Service and in Crazy Horse: The Invincible Sioux Chief by Brininstool.
Names Mentioned: Louis Richard, Gen. Cook, Jessie Lee, Gen. Bradley, Touch the Cloud, Capt. Kennington, Little Big Man, Big Bat Pourier.
Folder: 43 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of George W.
McAnulty File Number: 45
Subject: Newspaper account and selections from Brininstool's Crazy Horse; The Invinvcible Sioux Chief.
Source:
Folder: MISSING File Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye
Witness Account of Little Big Man File
Number: 46
Subject: Three sources for these accounts: John
Bourke's On the Border with Crook, The Ricker Tablets, and an article in
the
Source:
Names Mentioned: Touch the Clouds, Swift Bear, High Bear, Big Road, Jumping Shield Little Big Man, Billy Hunter, Stirk, Red Cloud, American Horse, Little Wound, Young Man Afraid of his Horses, Red Dog, No Flesh, Three Bears, Little Big Man, William Garnet.
Folder: 44 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Dr. V. T.
McGillycuddy File Number: 47
Subject: Material from a variety of sources documents Dr. McGillycuddy's experiences during the stabbing and death of Crazy Horse.
Source:
Names Mentioned:
Folder: 45 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of David Mears File Number: 48
Subject: Material from an article which appeared in Proceedings
and Collections of the
Source:
Names Mentioned: American Horse, Crazy Horse, Standing Elk
Folder: 46 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Standing Bear File Number: 49
Subject: Material taken from chapter 6 of My People the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear. In this chapter the author relates the eye witness account of his father, Standing Bear, to the killing of Crazy Horse.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Crazy Horse, Bawling Bull, Standing Bear, Spotted Tail, Red Cloud.
Folder: 47 File
Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of Standing Soldier File Number: 50
Subject: Material on the stabbing of Crazy Horse drawn from the Ricker Tablets.
Source:
Names Mentioned: Little Big Man, Crazy Horse
Folder:
1 File Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of
White Calf File Number: 51
Subject: Materials
drawn from interviews given to Eleanor Hinman
Source:
Names
Mentioned: Little Big Man, Chasing (Charging) Bear, Iron
Hawk, Turning Bear, Big Road, Long Bear, Woman Dress.
Folder:
2 File Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of
Edwin D. Woods File Number: 52
Subject: Material
from an article in the Omaha World Herald and from a letter in the
archives at
Source:
Folder:
3 File Title: Crazy Horse Killing: Eye Witness Account of
Captain Thomas Toby File Number: 53
Subject: A letter
written thirty three years after the fact concerning the killing of Crazy
Horse.
Source:
Folder:
4 File
Title: Crow Dog File
Number: 54
Subject: An
account of the killing of Spotted Tail and the subsequent trail and acquittal
of Crow Dog.
Source:
Names
Mentioned: Spotted Tail, Crow Dog, Running Bear,
Appearing Day, Medicine Bear, Jean Decker, Attorney Plowman (Little Man with
Big Voice)
Folder:
5 File
Title: Adolph Cuny File
Number: 55
Subject:
Materials include: a short family
tree, accounts of the
Source:
Names
Mentioned: Josephine Cuny, Adolph Cuny, Charles Cuny,
Elizabeth Cuny, Mildred Cuny, Louise Cuny, Susie Cuny, Adolph Cuny Jr., Lottie
Cuny, Jules Francis Cuny, Frank Ecoffey, Jules Ecoffey, Leslie Cuny, Charles
Cuny, Carl Cuny, Mrs. Louise (Cuny) Stave, Mrs. Leora (Cuny) Bush, Mrs. Myrle
(Cuny) Herndon, Mrs. Delphie (Cuny) Liberman, Lottie Cuny Patton, Mrs. Albert
Lamb, Millie Cuny Prescott, Mrs. Louise Cuny Girard.
Folder:
6 File Title: Delegation:
Oglala Sioux to Committee on Indian Affairs:
Subject: Official
government record of the testimony of Red cloud, American Horse, and Clarence
Three Stars before the Congressional Committee on Indian Affairs. Topics include: treaty rights, the clothing
and beef issue, schooling concerns, boss farmers, ways Indians have been
cheated.
Source:
Names
Mentioned: Dr. Charles Eastman, American Horse, Young
Man Afraid of His Horses, Sword, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, High Star, Clarence
Three Stars, Yellow Knife, George Colhoff, John Whelan, Adolph Heller, Joseph
Rooks, Gleason (boss farmer), C.T. Langue, R.O.Pugh, H.A. Dawson, Clapp
(Agent), Mr. Comer.
Folder:
7 File
Title: Deloria, Ella File
Number: 57
Subject:
History--Personal History, Anthropology, Indian/White Relations;
Education--Wakpala, Episcopal Mission School, School Experiences;
Culture--Values; Languages--Dakota Language; and Social--Kinship Groups,
Respect for Elders.
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary
Information: Date:
Interviewer: Bea
Medicine Garner
Folder:
8 File
Title: Deon, Sam File
Number: 58
Subject: This
file contains two articles from the Triangle Review (now the Fort
Collins Review) discussing the first trapper's cabin in what is now the
town of
Source: Jeanne
Smith Collection
Names
Mentioned: Sam Deon, Mary Deon, John B. Provost, Mary
Provost, Father Pierre Jean DeSmet, Irma Robinson Miller, Ben Claymore
(Lessert), Antoine Janis, Hazel McGaa-Cuney, Bega (sister of Smoke), Lizzie
Spotted Bear-Fast Horse, Cecelia Deon, Jaunita Deon, Louie Deon.
Folder:
9 File Title: Dreamer,
Marion Billbroth (Oglala Sioux) File Number: 59
Subject:
History--Personal History (Pine Ridge 1933), Impact of Depression,
Oglala 1930's; Wheeler Howard Act--Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) 1934;
Culture--Preservation; Social--Concept of Time, Indian/White Relations, Family
Life, Racial Pride, Matriarchal Social Structuring; Government--Indian View,
Land Taking; Politics--Pine Ridge 1930's, Federal Programs--Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC); Bureau of Indian Affairs--Inefficiency and Red Tape;
Alcoholism; and Religion--Peyote.
Source: American Indian Research Project, University of South Dakota
Secondary
Information: Date:
Interviewer: John
Watterson
Folder:
10 File
Title: Dubray, Chat File
Number: 60
Subject:
Biographical sketch from The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the
Far West
Source:
Folder:
11 File Title:
Subject: Articles
from the Triangle Review (now the Fort Collins Review) which
discuss French fur traders and others who had a direct link with the Pine Ridge
Reservation through marriage or other situations.
Source: Jeanne
Smith Collection
Names
Mentioned: French Canadians Helped Settle Valley: Antoine Janis, Jean Baptiste Provost, Louis
Benjamin Lessert (Ben Claymore or Clement), Louis Orleans, Oliver Morisette,
John Palmier, William Michaud, Larivieres, Comings (anglicized from Vien),
Desjardins. Tracing the History of
Laporte Schools: Ben Lessert Jr.
(Claymore), Susie Lessert, Irma Robinson Miller,