Category Archives: Sioux

John Iron Moccasin, Story of a Sioux Man

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Roberta Estes

Occasionally, the project administrators of the American Indian project at Family Tree DNA are presented with a rare opportunity to test an individual who is either full-blooded Native or nearly so. Recently, a Native Sioux man, John Iron Moccasin, born Earl … Continue reading →

Posted in Algonquian, Canada, Chippewa, DNA, Kaskaskian, Mexico, Mohawk, Sioux | 5 Comments

Native American Haplogroup X2a – Solutrean, Hebrew or Beringian?

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Roberta Estes

I was very pleased to see the article, “Does Mitochondrial Haplogroup X Indicate Ancient Trans-Atlantic Migration to the Americas? A Critical Re-Evaluation” by Jennifer Raff and Deborah Bolnick. This is one of those topics that gets brought up over and over … Continue reading →

Posted in Algonquian, Anthropology, Anzick, Archaeology, Archaic Indians, Asia, Beothuk, Canada, Chippewa, Clovis, DNA, Europe, History, Jemez, Kennewick Man, Michigan, Micmac, Migration, Montana, Navajo, Ojibwa, Sioux, Solutrean | 8 Comments

Chief Big Head, Standing Rock, Dakota Territory

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Roberta Estes

A G.W. Scott cabinet card photograph of Chief Big Head, a Sioux Indian, taken between 1880-1890 in North Dakota. In the records of Indian Chiefs and Visitors to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, we find a listing for Big Headed, … Continue reading →

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Surviving a Scalping

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Roberta Estes

Scalpings on the frontier were legendary, often thought of in terms of Indians scalping Europeans. While that certainly did happen, they didn’t have exclusive right to scalping. Frontiersmen did it too, as did Scythians and European tribes such as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Brule, Comanche, Ho-Chunk, Iroquois, Mohawk, Sioux | 7 Comments

Chief American Horse, Sioux

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Roberta Estes

Chief American Horse (the younger) is one of the Indian Chiefs listed as either a visitor or a student at the Carlisle School. Chief American Horse was Oglala Lakota, born in 1840 in the Black Hills of South Dakota, … Continue reading →

Posted in Apache, Blackfoot, Comanche, Piegan, Sioux, Ute | 7 Comments

Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Roberta Estes

Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden As Recounted by Maxi’diwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman) (ca.1839-1932) of the Hidatsa Indian Tribe Originally published as Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, Ph.D. (1868-1930) In the words of Buffalo Bird … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Hidatsa, Mandan, Sioux | 1 Comment

Native Study Website

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Roberta Estes

I recently came across the Native Study website. http://www.nativestudy.com/index.html This site has several books of transcribed original records. For the most part, records deal with the following tribes: Cherokee Chickasaw Choctaw Creek Seminole Blackfeet Delaware Hopi Navajo Sioux However, a … Continue reading →

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Sioux Tribe Purchases Sacred Land

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Roberta Estes

I just wanted to follow up on an earlier article. On November 19th, I posted information about the Sioux Tribes who, as a joint effort, were attempting to raise 9 million dollars to purchase the lands sacred to them by … Continue reading →

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Peta, Half Sioux, Half White, Changed the Face of AIDS

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Roberta Estes

His name was Peta. He was a strikingly beautiful man and he lived in a divided world of halves. He was half white an half Native American, from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was also gay. And he contracted HIV, then AIDS. … Continue reading →

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The Nemaha People

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Roberta Estes

We covered the Nemaha Reservation earlier, so today, I’d like to talk about the actual records of the allottees. The alottee record was produced in 1860 when the government was preparing to issue individual allotments to the half-breed people provided for … Continue reading →