The chiefs Hole-in-the-Day were acclaimed legends on the Minnesota frontier in their own time, and the foremost leaders of the Ojibway, or Chippewa, tribe between 1825 and 1868. Long neglected by historians, this is the first comprehensive, short biography ever published about them.

Chiefs Hole in the Day of the Mississippi Chippewa

History

Diedrich, Mark

Americas

Coyote Books

<p>This is the first book-length biography of Standing Buffalo, the last great Sisseton chief. Although he was a strong proponent of maintaining peaceful relations with the whites, he found himself inextricably caught up in events which led up to and included the Dakota War of 1862. For the following nine years he wandered the upper great plains, a man without a country. He finally died a suicidal-warrior's death in a battle with the Gros Ventres in Montana. His son and band were given a reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada, where their descendents remain today.</p>

Odyssey of Chief Standing Buffalo and the Northern Sisseton Sioux

Winnebago Oratory: Great Moments in the Recorded Speech of the Hochungra 1742-1887

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<p>This volume consists of a collection of biographical sketches of some thirty leading, most nineteenth century, chiefs among the Ojibway, or Chippewa, people, particularly those who lived south of Lake Superior between Sault Ste. Marie and Red Lake, the so-called "Southwestern Chippewa." After a lengthy discussion of Ojibway chieftainship, the book covers such chiefs as Broken Tooth, Hole-in-the-Day, Great Buffalo, White Cloud, Shabashkung, etc..</p>

Ojibway Chiefs

This life and times biography is the fascinating and unique story of the most famous woman of the Mdewakanton Dakota tribe. "Old Bets" was long associated with the Kaposia band, led by the famed Little Crow. Taopi, the well-known Christian farmer chief, was her son. To her people she was a typical, though extroverted woman, devoted to her family and tribe, and to the early settlers of Minnesota, she was variously a beggar or celebrity and tourist attraction.

Old Betsey: The Life and Times of a Famous Dakota Woman and Her Family

For the first time in a single volume, these are the collected speeches, interviews, prayers, songs, and statements of Sitting Bull, the enigmatic Lakota Sioux chieftain. Prefaced with a lengthy analytical discussion of Sitting Bull's life and character, the speeches are encased with historical narrative, which provide him with a virtual autobiographical format.

Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

This book is a collective biography of three generations of Mdewakanton Dakota chiefs named Wapahasha (often spelled "Wabasha"). The first Wapahasha was born in present-day Minnesota and became one of the leading warriors and spokesmen of his tribe during the French dominion of Canada and the upper Great Lakes. When the British took over, they negotiated with Wapahasha, now an elderly man, who aided them in the American Revolutionary War. After the war Wapahasha started his own band and village on the Upper Iowa River in present-day Iowa. He was succeeded as chief by his son, Wapahasha II. He, like his father, supported the British, and hoped, along with Tecumthe, that the Americans could be defeated in the War of 1812. When the British lost the war, Wapahasha tried to adjust to early inroads by the American government on the Upper Mississippi. He moved his village to the site of present-day Winona, Minnesota. After much trouble in dealing with the Sac and Fox and Ojibway tribes, he died of smallpox in 1836. His son, Wapahasha III, succeeded him. In the early years of his chieftainship he was angry with the Americans' ever increasing domination of his people. However, after making the Treaty of 1851, he tried to accomodate the whites. He eventually was influenced to try to become acculturated. He therefore opposed the war of 1862 and was baptized by Bishop Henry B. Whipple of the Episcopal Church. In 1863 he was removed with a remainder of his people to Crow Creek Reserve in Dakota Territory. A few years later, he was removed again to Niobrara River in present day Nebraska. Here he tried to gain a reserve for his people and went to Washington in 1867. Through further years of hardship, the Santee Dakotas (by which they were now known) settled in permanently on their reserve. But he died in obscurity in 1876, many feeling that the days of the old hereditary chiefs had passed usefulness.

The Chiefs Wapahasha: Three Generations of Dakota Leadership, 1740-1876

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