Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Some Queer Indian Names. [ARTICLE]

Some Queer Indian Names.

| However ‘rapidly the Indian Is traveling the path of civilization, it is plain from a casual reading of the notices in the South Dakota newspapers of inherited Indian lands for sale that their .names do not change. In one of thesa advertisements appear the following: Edward Snow Boy, Emily Crow Dog, Joseph Red Leaf, Little Bird, R. Spotted Eagle, Lob Long Ear, Lizzie Lon* Bull, Jonah Iron Whip, Sampel Four Star, John Omaha, Julia Humming Bird, J. Pretty Feather, Jonah One Elk, R. Crazy Eyes, Lizzie Long Ear, Medicine Born, Feather-in-the-Ear. Cecilia Guriy Feather, Robert Kill Bear. Probably a fourth of these Indian heirs bear the names of white fathers. Half a century ago a colony of Frenchmen settled in the vicinity of the Mandans and Brule Sioux and nearly every : one of them married an Indian. Their progeny are represented by such names as Pieotte, Arcihambeau, Arconge, De Fond, Brunot, Dezera, Tasgye, Bruyer.