Redmanship in Kentucky for Fifty Great SunsSmith, Frank L.
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Redmanship in Kentucky for Fifty Great Suns
Smith, Frank L.
Improved Order of Red Men. Great Council of Kentucky
Joe H. Kemper, of No. 18 Great Sachem
W. H. McDonald, of No. 111 Great Senior Sagamore
Homer J. Northcutt, of No. 184 Great Junior Sagamore
Robert Lee Page, of No. 80 Great Prophet
Frank L. Smith, of No. 1 Great Chief of Records
Hermann V. Cohn, of No. 8 Great Keeper of Wampum
Ben C. Nunn, of No. 14 Great Sannap
A. Englehard, Jr., of No. 8 Great Mishinewa
W. E. Buck, of No. 60 Great Guard of Wigwam
L. H. Roberts, of No. 10 Great Guard of Forest
Great Sachem Kemper announced the appointment of Past Sachem Geo. W.
Hinesley, of No. 8 as a member of the Board of Appeals for three great
suns.
Following were the appointments on Standing Committees:
Finance--Henry Schwieters, of No. 8; R. F. Arnett, of No. 1; Roy C.
Scott, of No. 18.
Judiciary--Robert T. Crowe, of No. 33; Claude B. Terrell, of No. 90;
Chas. A. Davis, of No. 111.
State of the Order--W. B. Dillon, of No. 166; R. S. Hunter, of No. 11;
John J. Sandmann, of No. 70.
Degree of Pocahontas--J. M. Clifford, of No. 10; W. Fred Thomas, of
No. 3; T. J. Tierney, of No. 80.
Returns and Reports--Sebastian Stone, of No. 56; V. M. Hainline, of
No. 18; T. H. Sanders, of No. 89.
The thanks of the Great Council were extended to Robert Lee Page, for
his dignified, fair and impartial rulings, and to Blackfoot Tribe for
its hospitality.
Past Great Sachem's Jewels were presented to Henry Wood Ray and
Robert Lee Page, and when the Great Prophet had said a prayer, the
council fire was quenched.
CHAPTER VIII.
BRIEF REVIEW OF THE INSTITUTION OF EACH TRIBE IN KENTUCKY, WITH THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS NAME WHERE POSSIBLE.
_Miantonomo_, No. 1. (Last Sachem of the Narragansetts, a nephew of
Canonicus) Lexington. Instituted 5th Hunting Moon, 403, with 121
Charter members. Organized by J. B. Mendenhall and instituted by the
Great Chiefs of the Great Council of the United States. Absorbed
Winona Tribe, No. 4 by consolidation 3d Buck Moon, 417.
_Onequa_, No. 2. (Rocky Ford) Winchester. Instituted 29th Cold
Moon, 404, with 41 Charter members. Organized and instituted by J.
B. Mendenhall, the degree work being done by Miantonomo, No. 1,
twenty-one of whose members became charter members of No. 2 by Card,
and many of these had been members of old Shawnee Tribe, No. 18, the
history of which see.
_Wyandotte_, No. 3. (Name of a Tribe of the Iroquois Nation. Huron
is another name of the same Tribe, both being derived from the same
Indian word "A-hon-an-dote." Wyandotte is the French version and
Huron the English) Maysville. Instituted 3d Hot Moon, 404, with 35
Charter members. Organized by J. R. McConnell and instituted by J. B.
Mendenhall, members of Miantonomo Tribe assisting in the degree work.
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