Show 0 0 O h 1 4 t tK r rl K l L 1 ifs t r rOURAY OURAY EOL r Editors Editor's Note The Th fourth Friday Fr In Septem Septem- September September ber Is celebrated In many dates states as American IndIan day In recognition of the contribution of the red man to our national tradition Inthis In InthIs Inthis thIs article appropriate to the th celebration of that day Is told the tory story of some om of th the Indians whose who y hos e names nam appear on the th white whit white m mans man's na maps to perpetuate perpetuate their f fame me By Dy ELMO SCOTT WATSON I F TUB TILE number of oC places which bear benr hIs name Is any criterion then thenY Y v Osceola of oC the thc Seminoles Semi noll's was the greatest Indian In American his his- hist history history JJ t tory torr For no DO other red man has hns thus Ihus been honored so many times It seems appropriate enough that the state of oC Florida should have both an Osccola Osceola county and antI a vil vII village lage Inge of oC Osceola Osccola for It was down dowD In the Ever Glades country that he wrote his bis name Dame In letters o of blood a century 00 ago But Dut why should 12 other commonwealths similarly perpetuate his name name name- L Is It tt because the white men remembering how how they made the leader lelder the victim of oC one of the blackest acts nets 0 of treachery on record hav have tried to make tard tardy amends to his memory b by doting the map wIth his name Or Is It more likely that Its musical syllables are responsIble for towns In Arkansas Illinois Indi Indiana linn ann Missouri New York Ohio Pennsylvania South Dakota and Wisconsin a n county In loss Iowa I- I and both a town and a n county In Michigan and Nebraska Nebra ka all bearing the name Dame of or Osceola r i lose Osceola ln was born on the Tallapoosa river to In Inthe the Creek Creel country In 1803 Ills flis paternal grand grand- grandfather grandfather father was a 8 Scotchman who married an Indian woman and this Caucasian strain Gave cave to his grandson not only a strikingly light complexion but also alto such n a gift elft for Cor leadership that his tribesmen accepted him as a h head ad warrior even eten though he was not net a chief either cither by descent or orby orby orby by formal Cormal election He lie first rose to prominence In when a part o of the Seminoles signed the Treaty reaty of Paynes Payne's Landing by which they agreed to to cede the remainder of oC their lands In Florida they had given ghen up the most of or them In 1823 3 and remove remo across the Mississippi Next to Osceola the Indian whose fame tame Is thus f r perpetuated most frequently Is the heroine of oC eoe lne of oC our favorite Pocahontas legends legends AgaIn It Is a case of oC our failure to Immortalize the therea thereal thereal rea real name name of or the person we would thus honor For the real name Dame of oC Pocahontas was or also misspelled Matoka and Ma- Ma Ma In teaks t But Powhatan chief of ot a group of oC Vir Vir ginia tribes at Dt the time of oC the settlement or of Jamestown had a pet name for Cor his favorite Ca daughter the playful one he called her so the English settlers settler soon were rev re- re ferring to this IndIan princess as Pocahontas Although some historians are doubtful If It tine tIle romantic episode of oC her rescue of or Capt John Smith from death ever er took place that story stor seems to be nn an Imperishable part of or our national If Ir Indeed It did take place then her r act shines thines all the more brightly by contrast with the treachery which she experienced later For Forshe Forshe she wa was lured on board the ship of oC Captain i Ar Argall 1111 In the Potomac carried orT off to Jamestown i and afterward taken talen to village where the chief had to ransom his dearest daughter The he next year ear who had been con converted veiled to Christianity and baptized under the name Dame of oC the Lady Rebecca was married to John HolCe and accompanied him hum to England where she the died of oC smallpox In 1617 Besides being Immortalized In ID two famous paintings and anda ama n a statue near Jamestown her fame Is perpetu sled filed In towns In Alabama Arkansas Illinois Tennessee Tennesee and Virginia In a county In West Vest VI Virginia na and In both a town and a county In Iowa Another Iowa lown town and county also preserve the name of an Indian more Intimately connected with the history of oC that stole state than was either Osceola or Pocahontas Among Amoni his own people the Sank Sal and Fox Indians he was known ns as the big black sparrow hawk But the white man remembers him as another red man Dlan who tried to hold back the tide of white while settlement as the vanquished leader r In tine the Black Hawk Bawl war of oC 1832 1532 Black lack Hawk WiS wa born near the Rock river In 1 Illinois In became a war leader against the f tribal enemies of or the Sank ought fought on en n the side ot of the British In to the War of 1812 and at the dose close of that war signed the treaty by which his Ms people agreed to give elve up their home bome lands lunds s act move across the Mississippi Then declaring In ing that be tae hind bad been deceived regarding the terms of oC the treaty he be refused to move anti and troops were sent t to drive him out t After several se sever battles he antlered a crushing defeat In sIn was captured by WInnebago allies s of oC till the whites and taken as u 11 prisoner of war to l- l ss s Va After his release be he made his hom homIn homIn e In Iowa lown where he died October 3 1833 1838 Beside s the town and county nty In I Iowa wa which bear benr his hl s name DAme there are also al o towns of oC Black mack Hawk In I n Illinois Indiana South Dakota and Colorado although the latter perpetuates ates the tae th name of a Ute Ule chief b by that name rather titan than that of ot th e Sauk leader lender lon Long I ing before Black Hawk Hank tried trued t to resist th e advance ane of the white while men two other chiefe chiefs chief ho t 1 also tried and ond failed One of oC them was tontine the Ottawa whose famous conspiracy a 1 the English In 1703 came so 80 o near Dear being belne a ft Success a and the other was Tecumseh the Shawnee Doth Boll o of them were born In n Pontiac Ohle-Pontiac OhIo on 00 tl tiu e shores bore of the Maumee river In li 17 1720 0 and Tecum a seb aeb on the Mad Had river In but but there Is nil of t town In the Buckeye r state te to recall recoil the name o 01 I I either Pontiac was murdered by a n indian at Ill In and has baa a U POCAHONT w ws s tr y yr r f xv a BLACK HAWK t yi w JOSEPH JOSEPHt JOSEPHr JOSEPHr t r r- r rt t o rr S r ar z l w wv v TECUMSEH town of oC Pontiac as ns has Michigan Michigan where he won i his greatest fame by his long lone ng sIege of oC the little frontier ran tier post of ot Detroit Tecumseh's real reo 1 name was or Te- Te meaning one who springs or leaps and he tie was also known ns as Crouching Panther r or Shooting Star After Arter his conspiracy to unite unit all the tine tribes In the Middle West against the th whites was wa as overthrown by the premature battle batti of oC TIppecanoe In Indiana Tecumseh Joined the British and was killed October G 0 1813 1513 at till the tin Battle Hattle of or the Thames In Canada Indiana the th center of oC his activities has hs no i named mimed after him but there ore are towns of oC Te Tecumseh In Alabama Kansas Michigan and Okla Oklahoma homa loma Considering their Importance In the history of oC New l York It t would seem appropriate If tr thE th names of oC Red Iced Jacket and aDd would nr op appear pear on the map of oC that state state Red Red Jacket th tit great reat Seneca chief and orator known as Sa Sago ye ye-wat-ha ye ha he who causes them to be awake and Hiawatha he makes riv rho rivers ers chief of oC the Mohawks and one ne of oC th the P founders of oC the famous League of oC the I Ithe the Confederation of the Five Fire Nations But the th F I fact Is that neither name appears there It has ha hn remained for Cor Michigan and West Nest Virginia to im Red Hed Jacket thus nn and for Kansas Michi Michigan gan and Utah to t do the same for Cor Hiawatha In the case of oC the latter however howe the namin naming of or these towns was more likely due to Longfellow v than to the fact that the th Mohawk chief deserved to be remembered as the th founder of ot the first successful League of ot Na Another character In Longfellow's poem the F little Hiawatha's grandmother Is Immortalized In the towns of oC Nokomis In ID Alabama and IIII 1111 noes and Minnesota has the falls Calls to t recall the beautiful maiden who became the bride of oC Hiawatha As for Cor other cases of oC white roan man honors them by naming namin his Ills villages towns cities or counties after aCter Indian men and women here Is a partial partis list of oC the most outstanding examples Pa For Pa For a Delaware woman sachem who lived In 1755 near the mouth of the river In Allegheny county Annawan For III-For For Annawan a I sachem achem the chief captala and counselor of oC I King Philip during his war a against the lIas Massachusetts I bay y colonists In 1670 WeI Bluejacket Okla For Okla-For For Chief Bluejacket We- We W I of C the Shawnees a lender leader In 10 the th e battle with General Harmar In 1790 and cipal Indian chieftain at the Battle of or Fallen Timbers In n 1794 t Bowlegs Bowle J For Olila-For Okla For Chief Bowlegs Boleck Bolecka k or Bolek of or the SemInoles who was prominent during the th Indian war yu on 00 the GeOr Georgia ln r In ID 1812 Colbert Oll Ga For William Colbert great reat wa r chief of ot the Chickasaws who ho helped the Amerl 1 tins raps In to the Revolution Re fought with Gen Cen Sl S L against the tle Northwest tribes In ID liD 1701 and am during the War of oC 1812 1512 rafter after serving nine month s In 10 the regular InCa Infantry returned to lead his hl warriors a against the hostile Creeps Creels ilk For For Jean Jenn Baptiste chief at the file be beginning of oC the NIne Nim t century Doted noted for his friendliness t to lh e l whites Arl Arts Arix and Okla For Okla-For For Go G lay yath-lay athla the tho yawner noted acted Apache war lend lender er during the seventies se and eighties who died die dieas d as a prisoner of oC war var nt at Fort Sill Okla Joseph Idaho and Ore For Ore For Chief Joseph Josept 6 Ynh lat kit lat kit thunder rolling In the th e mountains the Indian Napoleon leader lender oC o othe ol t the Nez ez Perces In their dash for freedom In InI I lr n I 1877 1577 Ke kuk Iowa lown and Keokuk Falls Fans Okla For Okla r ehle Chief Keokuk one who moves about aboul alert or Watchful Fox of oC the Sauk Sank rival oC o Black Hawk as ns head bend chief of oC the tribe Ill H Il e died In Kansas J In 18 18 IS 3 and nn In 1883 1881 his remain s were moved to the Iowa lawn city where a 8 statue o oC ol f him was erected over his grave crave wn Ohio For Ohio For Captain Lewis a noted Shawnee chief Fla-F Fla For Fla-For Fla For r Micanopy head hend chief Hereditary chief of oC the the SemInoles and leader lecler of oC the Indians In the destruction of or Major Daes Dae's command In December 1533 Oshkosh For WIs-For For Chief Oshkosh Osh Osh- kushi his bis hoo hoot hoof or his nail hen head chief of oC o i the he In the tine first half hair of C the Nine Nine- Nineteenth I century who fought on the side able of the tle I British In the War of oC 1812 helped capture Fort For Mackinac from the Americans In 1812 and tin the following year was with the British and Indian Indians who made the unsuccessful attack on Fort For Stephenson Ohio Iowa City and county For county Poweshiek he who shakes som some some- something thing orr off a Foxe chief noted for Cor his friend friend- friendliness liness to the whites III ill For For or the thi light lIht or white cloud also known ns os the th Prophet a n Sank Sauk medicine man with ChIc Chief mack Black Hawk during the war of oC 1832 1532 2 Quanah Qunnah Texas For Texas For Parker noted Comanche chief who was the son sc n of Cynthia Ann Parker a white captive and Chief Peta Nocona Red Iced Cloud For Neb Neb For Chief Red Cloud Clond Ink Ink- pla piya Juta of oC tine the O Ogallala Sioux a n noted leader leoder I during the Plains wars In ID the sixties and aDd seventies seven even I ties tics I Roundhead Ohio Ohio For For Roundhead chief o of the who fought with the British In the or of oC 1812 Seattle For Wash For Chief Seattle ot of the D and allied tribes of et Sound In the early part of the Nineteenth century Tamaqua For or Pa For Tamaque the Beaver eaver or 01 King I Beaver chief of ot the Delaware In Colonial days das I Uncas For Okla-For For Uncas the fox tox or the a chief who fought for the Massachusetts colonists In King Kins war Kan Ran County and town For town Chief of the Wabasha Minn For Minn-For For a 8 line of oC I Sioux chiefs named or Wabasha Red ned RC Leaf LeC i j Winamac For Ind-For Ind For Chief Winamac Catfish I i of or the who ho fought against the Americans at the Battle of oC TIppecanoe noe but aided them at the Fort Dearborn massacre I Okla Okla For For Red ned RC l Ingie leader of the Creek uprising In 1813 1811 am and commander of oC the Indiana Indians at the Fort alma Mima lII massacre t For or Nev Fur Chief a the Giver of the I p b by y Waters T U Ual |