ROOM FOR THE INDIANS
by
Dr. Robert Haldane Jr.
Copyright 1999
EPILOGUE
My wife really likes my Indian Room. She bought me a War Club for the wall and a leather ottoman. She made a patchwork pillow to match the colors in the room, with an Indian head in the center and embroidered arrows in the corners. And then, she spent hours typing this account to share. (How precious is my Delphine!) We'll always have an Indian Room in our home, but our prayer is that this America the Beautiful, the U.S.A., about which we sing: "Your Land is My Land . . . This land was made for you and me," will always have room for the Indians!
Badlands, South Dakota 1947
CROW DOG, Mary, "Lakota Woman" Harper Perennial
DUVALL, Jill, "The Penobscot" Childrens Press, Chicago
ECKSTROM, Fannie Hardy "Old John Neptune and other Maine Indian Shamans" A Marsh Island Reprint, U. of M. at Orono, 1980
LITTLE, Jack "Lakota Spirit" Autobiography of Native American Jack Little with Introduction by Andrew Hogarth pub. Hogarth
MICHNO, Gregory F. "Lakota Noon" Mountain Press Publishing Co., Missoula, MT
PENN, W.S., editor. "The Telling of the World" Native American Stories and Art. Stewart, Tabori & Chang
POWERS, William K. "Oglala Religion" University of NE Press, 1975
STARITA, Joe "The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge, A Lakota Odyssey" Berkley Books, N.Y.
_____________ "Through Indian Eyes" The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
_____________ National Geographic, Vol. 180, No.4, October 1991 "1491 America Before Columbus"
UTLEY, Robert M. "The Last Days of the Sioux Nation" New Haven and London, 1963
1 Massasoit and Squanto were important Native Americans in the accounts of our Pilgrim heritage as Congregationalists.
2 Jim Carney, it turned out, was back-door neighbor to Jim and Joan Heischman of Lakeside, Ohio, who became my special friends in retirement.
3 From "The Telling of the World," edited by W.S.Penn
4 Starita "The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge" p. 3
5 The book, "Lakota Noon" by Gregory F. Michno calls him Wasu Maza (Iron Hail) and says he was 17 years old in 1876 (p. 29). I accept "Hail" as the more appropriate interpretation since rain and hail were his personal battle symbols.
6 See Chapter V, pp. 72-73
7 Similar to the round earth lodges built by ancestors of the Pawnee, Mandan, and Hidatsa bands. "The builders made these lodges snug for winter by excavating the floors....and insulating the entry tunnel with earth." "Through Indian Eyes," p. 194.
8 Michno in "Lakota Noon"claims Beard was one and a half miles away and later probably "learned that One Bull was somewhere out there." p. 51
9 More in Chapter V, p. 66
10 Starita "The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge" p. 133
11 Ibid p. 129
12 Ibid p. 253
13 I was pleased to discover that the Dull Knifes were as enthusiastic about that movie as I am - and they don't have to read the English sub-titles!
14 A coup stick is not a weapon as such. It will neither kill nor wound an enemy. It gets his attention and raises his ire.
15 Starita "The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge" p. 338
16 Ibid p. 336
17 Penn, ed. "The Telling of the World" pp. 44-45
18 Also from "The Telling of the World." Betty's gift came from Perham's in Trap Corner, West Paris, ME, not far from Snow Falls (Molly Ockett country).
19 In a shop I found a picture of several Wounded Knee survivors. It was a wonderful picture of Dewey Beard. I would have bought it, but it was "on loan" and not for sale.
Wasee Maza 1898
Dewey Beard trading card
Crazy Horse National Monument
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