Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 1019

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
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes: 
Nez Perce Indian Chief
Notes: 
children?
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died:
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buried:
Notes: 
at age 16, participated in major battles between tribe under Chief Joseph and U. S. soldiers (Yellowstone Park, Wyo.)
Notes: 
" . . . served Chief Joseph as caretaker for the band's horses"
Notes: 
Madison River ". . . forks into the Firehole and the Gibbon"
Notes: 
Fountain Geyer, ". . . the 'big steam' which awed and frightened him as a boy."
Notes: 
Chief Many Wounds, interpreter
Notes: 
White Hawk, Mrs. (wife, born: ? - married: ? - died: ? - buried: ?)
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
Text