death_date tribe known_for article_title name nicknames
early 19th century ktunaxa chinook dreamer , and expounder of dreams ; adopted `` had a wife '' woman that carried a bow and arrows and kaúxuma núpika
 kaúxuma núpika '' '' ' , '' ` manlike woman '' ' , ` '' ` water sitting grizzly '' ' qangon '' ' , '' ` bowdash
kaúxuma núpika

kaúxuma núpika , also called qangon , bowdash , and the manlike woman , was a kootenai person who lived in the early 19th century .
reports of encounters with núpika were recorded by both david thompson , famous pioneer surveyor , and by sir john franklin , of the franklin expedition to look for a northwest passage .
according to the entries thompson made in his journal concerning her , one in july 1809 and the second in july 1811 , she spent time as a sort of second wife to a man named boisverd , who was one of thompson 's men .
thompson reports that she `` became so common that i had to send her to her relations ; as all the indian men are married , a courtesan is neglected by the men and hated by the women . ''
presumably she was generating bad feeling by being a `` loose woman '' .
this was in 1803 .
thompson encountered her next on rainy lake , near the upper columbia river , in july 1809 .
`` she had set herself up for a prophetess , '' he writes , `` and gradually had gained , by her shrewdness , some influence among the natives as a dreamer , and expounder of dreams .
she recollected me before i did her , and gave a haughty look of defiance , as much to say , i am now out of your power . ''
she explained to his people that the whites had changed her sex .
she adopted the masculine name of water sitting grizzly .
it was 1811 before thompson ran into the manlike woman again .
this time , she walked into his camp seeking asylum for herself and a young woman he called his wife .
thompson describes her as `` apparently a young man , well dressed in leather , carrying a bow and quiver of arrows , with his wife , a young woman in good clothing '' .
manlike woman was in trouble with her adopted tribe , the chinooks , for predicting diseases to them in her role as prophetess .
thompson says nothing of her own response to this request , but notes that his men found the whole thing a tale worth repeating .
on august 2 her journal states that `` the story of the woman that carried a bow and arrows and had a wife , was to them a romance to which they paid great attention and my interpreter took pleasure in relating it . ''
john robert colombo , author of '' '' , extracted the quotes about manlike woman from `` david thompson 's narrative of his explorations in western america : 1784-1812 '' -lrb- 1916 -rrb- edited by j.b. tyrrell .
thompson never gives the `` woman that carried a bow and arrows and had a wife '' any kind of name .
it was sir john franklin who refers to her as `` the manlike woman '' in his `` narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the polar sea '' -lrb- 1928 -rrb- , and suggests the label was one given to her by the native people she influenced .
since the lack of a name contributes to obscurity , `` manlike woman '' is pressed into service , here , as the best guess available .
it also has the virtue of being shorter than thompson 's `` woman that carried a bow and arrows and had a wife '' .
franklin describes manlike woman in an account written at fort chipewyan in april 1827 .
according to his story , manlike woman was at the heart of a sort of cult belief among the local natives that the future held improvements for them with regard to the material things in life .
his source was a mr. stewart , who was the local factor for the hudson 's bay company .
stewart said manlike woman was believed to be supernatural because she excelled in male roles despite her `` delicate frame '' .
franklin 's contribution ends with a fuzzy reference to a journey undertaken by manlike woman , involving a packet carried between two hudson bay company posts , `` through a tract of country which had not , at that time , been passed by the traders , and which was known to be infested by several hostile tribes . ''
manlike woman undertook this journey with her wife , was attacked and wounded in the process , but achieved her objective .
`` when last seen by the traders , she had collected volunteers for another war excursion , in which she received a mortal wound .
the faith of the indians was shaken by her death , and soon afterwards the whole story she had invented fell to discredit , '' franklin reported , based on what he was told by stewart .
