COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding White Hawk
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 1019
Item Description:
White Hawk - Biographical information for Chief White Hawk; "Aged Indian Forgets Park", no source, n.d.
Date:
Undated
Notes:
Nez Perce Indian Chief
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children?
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died:
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buried:
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at age 16, participated in major battles between tribe under Chief Joseph and U. S. soldiers (Yellowstone Park, Wyo.)
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" . . . served Chief Joseph as caretaker for the band's horses"
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Madison River ". . . forks into the Firehole and the Gibbon"
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Fountain Geyer, ". . . the 'big steam' which awed and frightened him as a boy."
Notes:
Chief Many Wounds, interpreter
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White Hawk, Mrs. (wife, born: ? - married: ? - died: ? - buried: ?)
Type:
Text