The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-09

Ashes,') sometimes called Louis Garon.
giague.
In 1877, while making tour of the
Indian village, and learning that Tekak-
wi-tha was prosecuted on account of her
new faith he placed her i'll Il canoe with
two companions and started for the
Sault, where she arrived in the autumn,
bearing letters from Father De LANDER
vile eXtolling her virtues. Here she grew
n Christian knowledge, and In the eX-
ercise of a 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
ViLe-Marie 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 Il 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 fagellate her every
Sunday for a 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-
there, while at prayer, had vision in
which Catherine arrayed in glory APP
peared before him. Her remarkable life
so impressed the minds of the faithful,
both Indians and whites, hat many
came to pray at her tomb. 1t is said
that many persons who were i'll were
healed through invoking her intercession
Ill their behalf, and that many striking
visions and revelations have taken place
at her tomb.
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
o.. She is buried i'll the cemetery at
tached to the ShoshOne agency at Wa
shak1a, 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, Sx10 inches in size,
has been placed upon a concrete shaft
and bears the following inscription:
SACAJAWEA, guide to Lewis and Clark
expedition, 1SO4-1SO6. Identified by Rev.
John Roberts. who officiated at her burial
April 21 1884.
This tablet was presented by limo
thy F. Burke of Cheyenne to Supt.
Wadsworth of the Shoshone agency and
G. e. Farris, principal of the agency
school; j. j. Guyer, q. A. Bell and w.
A. Bolander, 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 T. Elliott,
special agent of the Indian bureau, who
happened to be at Waushakia at the
time. Mr.. Roberts isXhe Episcopal mis-
sionary at the agency and has a school
for Indian girls there.
There is stately monument at
Sleepy Eye, Mimi, in honor of the Sioux
chief from whom the town derived it's
name. He was a chief of the lower
Sisseton tribe and was born 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
1865. evidently succeeding Walltanto
He was a frequent and friendly visitor
at the home of Rev. S. r. Riggs, the
missionary. Heard states that a party
of his people participated in the massa-
ere of the whites at Lake Shetek settle
ment in 1862. He is described in 1886
tMcKenney and Hall, Indian Tribes, H.,
100. 1854 as large and well proper
toned. of rather dignifed appearance,
good natured and plausible, but 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 reburied under a monu.
ment erected by the citizens