Among the Sioux: A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two DakotasCreswell, R. J. (Robert J.)
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Among the Sioux: A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas
Creswell, R. J. (Robert J.)
Dakota Indians -- Missions; Missionaries -- Great Plains -- Biography
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.
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