| NAME: Esens
aka Little Shell (#2)
NOTE:
There were 3
generations Chiefs named Little
Shell
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| BIRTH: c1770-1800 |
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| MOTHER: |
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| FATHER: Little Shell #1
aka Esens |
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| CHILDREN: Madeline | |
| LIFE
EVENTS: Recieved the Medal
shown right, on his Son's Chest. |
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| DEATH:
Approx. 1853 NOTE: His Grandaughter
is the source for this date.
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| RELATED
LINKS: Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana Box 1384 1807 3rd St NW Ste 35A Great Falls, MT 59403 NOTE: This tribe requires Blood Quantum for Membership, as well as descent. Yet, All 3 Little Shell honored Mixed-Bloods. I can never figure out how anyone can tell their Ancestors "these people are too white to be your children...." That does not seem to honor the Ancestors. Ayla http://www.nativeregistry.com |
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| CLUES: ===================================== 1804: April 30: Alexander Henry the Younger (1764-1814) writes in Pembina River Post: I gave the Indians liquor to decamp and hunt all summer. As a result, Grande Gueule stabbed Capot Rouge; Le Boeuf stabbed his young wife in the arm; Little Shell almost beat his old mother's brains out with a club; and there was terrible fighting among them. I sowed garden seeds. The Indian women are also planting crops at Pembina. ===================================== Michel MONET BELHUMEUR (male), b: 1802, NWT, bt: Sept 7, 1806 at Montreal, Que; died: , Leroy, ND; spouse(s) #1 Josephte SAUTEUSE WOMAN, #2 Suzanne Josephte BRUYERE, #3 never married Reine LAGIMODIERE NOTE: Josephte and Suzanne were first cousins. Josephte was the daughter of Chief LITTLE SHELL l, and the sister of Chief (Little Clam) LITTLE SHELL ll. Josette had died before Apr 5, 1839 at the hands of the Sioux. Suzanne's father, Jean-Baptiste BRUYERE was either the brother or brother-in-law of Chief LITTLE SHELL. |
HIS SON:
I believe this photo is Little Shell #3 who died in 1901,
much later than the man documented on this page.
The peace medal on his chest has
the likeness of Abraham Lincoln on it.
This medal then must have passed from our
Little Shell #2 to this man, Thomas Little Shell, his Son
Century-old
problems
The problems began in 1892 when an Indian agent came to the tribe’s home, North Dakota’s Turtle Mountain Reservation. Chief Thomas Little Shell was away in Montana with 112 other families on a hunting trip. In their absence, tribal rolls were cut and a million acres of the tribe’s land was sold for $90,000.
When he returned, Little Shell refused to take part in the deal, said Ed Lavenger, an elder with the Little Shell Tribe who lives in Billings. “He was protesting the dropping of so many names from the rolls,” Lavenger said. “It was all or none.” With no land, the tribe scattered. In 1896, 600 of the landless Indians were captured by soldiers, put into boxcars and dropped off at the Canadian border. That winter, they walked back, living in squalid shacks in “Moccassin Flats” areas outside of towns along the Hi-Line and the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains, Lavenger said. “We are a scattered tribe. We weren’t claimed by the whites. We weren’t claimed by the full bloods.” (source)
Note:
But now they have a blood quantum
requirement, does that make sense?
The problems began in 1892 when an Indian agent came to the tribe’s home, North Dakota’s Turtle Mountain Reservation. Chief Thomas Little Shell was away in Montana with 112 other families on a hunting trip. In their absence, tribal rolls were cut and a million acres of the tribe’s land was sold for $90,000.
When he returned, Little Shell refused to take part in the deal, said Ed Lavenger, an elder with the Little Shell Tribe who lives in Billings. “He was protesting the dropping of so many names from the rolls,” Lavenger said. “It was all or none.” With no land, the tribe scattered. In 1896, 600 of the landless Indians were captured by soldiers, put into boxcars and dropped off at the Canadian border. That winter, they walked back, living in squalid shacks in “Moccassin Flats” areas outside of towns along the Hi-Line and the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains, Lavenger said. “We are a scattered tribe. We weren’t claimed by the whites. We weren’t claimed by the full bloods.” (source)
Note:
But now they have a blood quantum
requirement, does that make sense?