This census from 1901 shows names that would not necessarily be accurate. Were these names given by the people themselves or were they written by a census taker using his own criteria for naming? Many were very insulting and I didn't use a photo of those pages. This is why I question how the names were arrived upon. You can click on the picture to make it bigger.
- Long Time Pipe Woman
- Crop Ear Wolf
- Taking Gun in Night
- Bruised Head
There is a beautiful book by George Webber about this reserve called People of the Blood.
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Amazing...I have never sen a Indian Reservation Census before.....I have such empathy for these people....in Wisconsin, they had massive areas of land that the different tribes lived in and after the US gov't. was done they lived in about 100 square miles.....it was such a travesty...and I was told in history class in high school that every treaty the American gov't. made with any tribe in the US...not one was ever honored...the gov't broke all of them!!!! How foolish the white man was....
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