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Wassana's home (Arapaho) at Seger Colony. Wassana (spelled "Wassanee" in the photo caption) and Crow Woman came with John H. Seger in 1886 to start the settlement that became known as Seger Colony or Seger's Colony. At the new colony, Wassana and Crow Woman gave birth to three children: Ida, Curly, and Chester. Curly passed away as a young boy. Ida, born in 1888, married a Lumpmouth and had five children: Doris, Homer Jr., Mary, Kenneth, and Minnie. Doris and Homer were born in a teepee; the other three, at the Colony infirmary (Seger Indian School Hospital). Ida received nurse aide training at the Seger School, which all of her children attended--excepting Minnie, who died in infancy. The two oldest children, Doris and Homer, completed the school. The two younger ones, Mary and Kenneth, attended until the school closed in 1932. Gladys and Don, two of Mary's seven children, live in Colony today. Don's house stands on the town lot the old Seger house once occupied. [Photograph courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. Accompanying data courtesy of Gladys Nowlin. Caption revised 10/16/03] |