Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-05-27

1866. and her parents were killed. She
was reared by her uncle. n bitter enc
my of the whites and an uncOmpromis-
ing opponent of the Christian mission
aries. BUT when she ltas about ~ she
was converted and on Easter Sunday,
1G75. was baptized by Father Lalnber-
Vile
The act provoked the resentment of
her uncle and many of the members Of
her tribe and the girl was bitterly per-
scented. But, although frail in health,
she continued 10 do her share of the
family labor. and endured the insults OF
her companions with perfect patience,
Two years after her baptism number
of Christian lroquois from Sault Saint
Louis visited the villages of their ma
ton in New York for the purpose of
gaining proselytes to the new faith. One
OF the most prominent of them, for
mer inhabitant and chief of the Oneida
village. was Ogenratarihen c'Hot
Ashes, J sometimes called Louis Garon-
giague.
In 1917, while making a tour of the
Indian village, and learning that Te-kak-
wl-tha was prosecuted on account of her
new faith, he placed her i'll canoe with
two companions and started for the
SauIt, where she arrived in the autumn,
bearing letters from Father De Lamber-
vile eXtolling her virtues. Here she grew
III Christian knowledge. and In the eX-
ercise of holy life practicing great
austerities. Visiting Montreal, she saw
the nuns of Marguerite Bourgeoise at
their school work, and, aware of the
charity which the hospital sisters of
NllIe-Marle had shown toward her peo-
pie, she sought to found a convent on
Heron island, among the rapids of the
st. Lawrence river. This project was
ridiculed by her friends, and even the
father was amused. He, nevertheless,
permitted her TO make a vow of chastity
and thus she became the first Indian
nun.
Among the means which Te-kak-wi-
tina undertook to mortify her body was
to engage a friend to hagellate her every
Sunday for Il year. when she became
| too weak to bear it Longer
She died April II, 1850, and was
buried south of the La Chine rapids Of
the ST Lawrence, midway between La
Prairie and Caughnawaga, Quebec. Six
! days after her death Father Chauche-
tlere, while at prayer, had vision in
which Catherine arrayed in glory ap-
| peared before him. Her remarkable life
50 impressed the minds of the faithful,
both Indians and whites. hat many
| came TO pray az her tomb. 1t is said
| that many persons who were i'll were
healed through invoking her intercession
| IL Their behalf, and that many striking
visions and revelations have taken place
at her tomb
Grace Hebard Raymond. librarian of
the university of Wyoming. at Laramie.
| says that the first volume of the Journal
of American History contains an ac-
count of the efforts to discover the grave
OF the bird woman" Sacajawea the
guide of Lewis and Clark during their
expedition across the continent in 1904
O6. She is buried in the cemetery at
tached to the ShOshone agency al Wa
shakla, and her grave has recently been
marked by temporary monument until
the state or the nation shall erect such
memorial as her services deserve A
tablet of solid brass, Sxl0 inches in size,
has been placed upon concrete shaft
ami bears the following inscription:
SACAJAWEA guide to Lewis and Clark
expedition, 1804-1S06, Identified by Rev
John Roberts, who officiated at her burial
April p. 1884
This tablet was presented by limo
thy f, Burke of Cheyenne to Supt.
Wadsworth of the Shoshone agency and
e. E. Farris, principal of the agency
school; j. j. Guyer, G. A. Bell and w.
a. B0lander. who are connected with
the school, provided the monument. 1t
was placed in position with appropriate
ceremonies, conducted by Rev. John
Roberts, who officiated at the funeral
| of Sakayawca, and Wilbur r. Elliott.
special agent of the Indian bureau, who
happened to be at Waushakia at the
time. Mr.. Roberts iSIhe Episcopal mis-
sionary at the agency and has school
for Indian girls there.
There is a stately monument mt
Sleepy Eye, Mimi, in honor of the Sioux
chief from whom the town derived its
name. He was a chief of the lower
Sisseton tribe and was bora on the Min
nesota river, near the present site of
| Mankato. His Indian name was Ish-
ta-ba, or as it is sometimes called, Ish-
| tah-um-ba He was prominent in the
affairs of his tribe contemporary with
the REIMBURSEMENT of their lands in Min
nesota and removed to the reservations
ON the upper Minnesota from 1850 TO
| 1868. evidently succeeding Walltanto.
| He was Il frequent and friendly visitor
ut the home of Rev. s. Il. Riggs. the
missionary. Heard states that party
of his people participated in the massa
ere of the whites ut Lake Shetek settle
ment in 1862. He is described in 1896
| (McKenney and Hall, Indian Tribes, H.,
| 100. 1851. as large and well p:Opor-
toned of rather dignifed appear nee
| good natured and plausible. bur as hav-
ing never been distinguished as a war
| rior or hunter. He died in Roberts
county s. D.. but his remains, many
years after his death, were disinterred
and removed to Sleepy Eye Mimi
where they were rebured under Il monu.
4 mont prptaT pI Inv tho pitiyanS