Native American Encyclopedia The-Other-Magpie To Zuni
Rourke’s Native American History Culture ENCYCLOPEDIA Volume 9 The-Other-Magpie to Zuni By Sandy Sepehri Project Consultants Mark J Johnston Scott Lyons Ph D Rourke Publishing LLC Vero Beach Florida 32964
4 The-Other-Magpie In the Battle of Rosebud Creek the Crow and Shoshone fought alongside the U S Army against the Sioux and Cheyenne The-Other-Magpie birth and death dates unknown was a female warrior of the Crow tribe In 1876 she fought in the Battle of Rosebud Creek against the Sioux and Cheyenne She joined the battle because a Sioux member killed her brother Unlike the other warriors who carried rifles she only carried a knife and her coup stick United States forced the Nez Perce to give up part of their homeland because gold had been discovered there Only one-third of the Nez Perce chiefs signed the Lapwai Treaty but the United States forced all the Nez Perce to move For this reason the Nez Perce named the Lapwai Treaty the Thief Treaty See also coup stick and Rosebud Creek Battle of Thief Treaty refers to the 1863 Lapwai Treaty Through this treaty the words to know decathlon dee-CATH-lon an athletic competition with ten different track and field events hydroelectricity HI-droe-ee-LEK-TRISS-eh-tee electricity generated by running water pentathlon pen-TATH-lon an athletic competition with five different track and field events Thorpe Grace 1921-2008 was the daughter of Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe and a member of Oklahoma’s Sac and Fox Nation In 1991 she became an antinuclear activist She convinced her tribe to refuse to allow the United States to store nuclear waste on their reservation She also supported alternative energy sources such as hydroelectricity solar power and wind power
Thorpe Jim 1888-1953 was a Sac and Fox Olympic athlete and professional baseball and basketball player He is considered by some prominent sports writers to be the greatest American athlete of the twentieth century He won gold medals in the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon Olympic officials took away his medals when they learned that he had been paid for playing minor league baseball before competing in the Olympics Olympic rules state that contestants cannot be paid athletes Thirty years after his death Olympic officials restored his medals Thunderbird 1866-1946 also known as Richard Davis Thunderbird was a Cheyenne actor who starred in many western movies from 1914 until 1944 He played the role of various Native Americans especially famous chiefs He starred in the well-known 1935 film entitled Annie Oakley He was born near Tongue River Montana and died in Los Angeles California Thundercloud Red 1919-1996 also known as Cromwell West and Carlos Westez pretended to be a member of the Catawba tribe from the Carolinas He was actually born to African-American parents in Rhode Island As a teenager he became interested in Native American history He learned the Catawba language claimed to be a medicine man and sold medicinal teas After his death Native American Timucua 5 experts discovered the truth about his ancestry Timucua was a Native American tribe from northeast Florida and southeast Georgia European disease and warfare with the Spanish and British wiped out most of this tribe The Timucua became extinct when its last known member died in 1767 Prior to European contact the Timucua lived in about 100 different villages Each village was ruled by a chief and had a large Council House used for village dances and meetings Families lived in circular huts that contained only one room Men wore loincloths Women wore loincloths and sashes made of moss Both men and women wore tattoos To show their importance chiefs wore many tattoos even around their lips Men and women wore long hair which they only cut to show grief for the death of a loved one Timucua men wore loincloths and the women wore clothing made of tree moss common in their region
