Daughter of Chief Paints Himself Yellow.
Married to Fielder Magruder Phillips in the early 1870s. They had two daughters (Lucy and ?) and one son (George).
After F. M. Phillips abandoned her and took their children, she married Afraid of Hawk.
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Indian Seeks Sister Long Lost to Tribe
Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk Is In Denver on Mission for Mother.
Worldly Wealth Awaits Woman if She Returns to Her People.
In the early '70s, when the Sioux Indians were almost constantly at war with the whites, there lived in Fort Laramie, Wyo., a white man, rich in cattle and lands, whom the Indians trusted as one of themselves, because he never broke his word with them. When the big medicine men of the Ogalalla Sioux started their war dances he was the only white man who had influence with them and he used his power to bring about a better understanding between the red men and their white brothers, and to prevent outbreaks against the whites.
The man's name was F. M. Phillips. When one day he noticed a beautiful Indian maiden of the Sioux tribe going about her duties around her father's tepee, according to the usual Indian custom, he drove a part of his cattle to the tepee in token of his desire to marry the Indian maiden. He was accepted, and for years cast his lot with the people from whom he had chosen his bride.
TAKES DAUGHTER ALONG WITH HIM.
The girls and a boy were born to the couple. The boy and one girl died, but the other girl lived. The United States government in the meantime had moved the Sioux Indian reservation from Fort Laramie to Pine Ridge. Phillips continued to prosper. Then he seemed to tire of the life he had been living among the Indians and divorced his Indian wife by the simple expedient of leaving her, but he took his daughter along with him. That was in 1885.
The deserted wife married again, this time taking a Sioux Indian as her husband. She lost track of her half-breed daughter, evidently believing that her former husband would not allow her to have anything to do with the girl anyhow. But about a year ago she heard, through channels known only to Indians, that Phillips had died in Omaha, where he moved about three years ago.
DISPATCHES SON TO FIND DAUGHTER.
Since that time the Indian woman has been longing with all the mother's love any white woman ever bore for her children, to see her daughter again. So a few days ago she sent her son by her second marriage to Denver to see if he could trace her lost daughter through friends of Phillips who are now living in this city and through members of her tribe with whom he continued his friendship of earlier days.
The son - a half-brother of the missing daughter - is Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk who arrived in Denver yesterday morning. So far he has been unable to get any definite trace of his sister, but appealed to The Post to help him. Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk was born and spent his boyhood days on the Pine Ridge, S.D., reservation. He is well educated and has forsaken the picturesque headdress of feathers and the brightly colored blankets associated with Indian tribes and, except for his dark skin, he easily would be taken for a prosperous business man of the white race.
He has traveled extensively, and has been in France, Germany and other European countries. He carries with him a little note book, in which he has had persons of note of many countries write their names for him.
FEARS HIS SISTER MAY BE PREJUDICED
"Perhaps my sister doesn't care about being identified with our tribe," said Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk last night. "We Indians do not feel that we are inferior to anybody, but my sister was educated among white people, and live with her father - a white man. Perhaps she has a prejudice against the Indians, and would like to forget her own birth - that is, that she is half Sioux Indian.
"But my mother is getting old now, and she has not long to live. She wants to see her daughter before she dies. My mother's name is Clara-Lays-Bear and my sister's name is Lucy Phillips. That is not at all suggestive of an Indian reservation. And I want to see my sister, too. I don't remember her at all, but she was a favorite among my tribespeople when she was a little girl, and they remember her well, and if she will go back to the Pine Ridge with me she will find that she has many loyal friends among the Sioux Indians. They don't forget, you know, like white men. If my sister is living - and there never has come a message of her death to us - she is about 35 years old. She may be married, and may now have another name - the name of her husband.
HER REDSKIN MOTHER RICH IN WORLDLY GOODS.
"If she doesn't care to see her Indian mother, perhaps she will be glad to learn that she is an heiress, and that her redskin mother is rich in worldly goods, and can make her rich. Perhaps, also, because of her Indian blood, I can get for her an allotment of land form the government, to which, as an Indian, she is entitled. If she is married and had children, she is entitled to 620 acres of land. If she has no children, then she is entitled to 320 acres of land, besides money in the bank, of which my sister is entitled to her share as an equal heir with myself when my mother dies.
My father, Afraid-of-Hawk is still living in the Pine Ridge. He is separated from my mother, who married again. Her last husband is dead."
Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk is a bookkeeper in a department store in Manderson, S.D., near the Pine Ridge reservation. He is going from Denver to Omaha, and from that city back to Manderson, but hopes to carry with him news of his sister, and that he will have her promise to go to Pine Ridge Indian reservation to see their mother.
Denver Post
Denver, Colorado
8 Feb 1914
p. 31
retrieved from genealogybank.com
Married to Fielder Magruder Phillips in the early 1870s. They had two daughters (Lucy and ?) and one son (George).
After F. M. Phillips abandoned her and took their children, she married Afraid of Hawk.
_________________________________________________________
Indian Seeks Sister Long Lost to Tribe
Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk Is In Denver on Mission for Mother.
Worldly Wealth Awaits Woman if She Returns to Her People.
In the early '70s, when the Sioux Indians were almost constantly at war with the whites, there lived in Fort Laramie, Wyo., a white man, rich in cattle and lands, whom the Indians trusted as one of themselves, because he never broke his word with them. When the big medicine men of the Ogalalla Sioux started their war dances he was the only white man who had influence with them and he used his power to bring about a better understanding between the red men and their white brothers, and to prevent outbreaks against the whites.
The man's name was F. M. Phillips. When one day he noticed a beautiful Indian maiden of the Sioux tribe going about her duties around her father's tepee, according to the usual Indian custom, he drove a part of his cattle to the tepee in token of his desire to marry the Indian maiden. He was accepted, and for years cast his lot with the people from whom he had chosen his bride.
TAKES DAUGHTER ALONG WITH HIM.
The girls and a boy were born to the couple. The boy and one girl died, but the other girl lived. The United States government in the meantime had moved the Sioux Indian reservation from Fort Laramie to Pine Ridge. Phillips continued to prosper. Then he seemed to tire of the life he had been living among the Indians and divorced his Indian wife by the simple expedient of leaving her, but he took his daughter along with him. That was in 1885.
The deserted wife married again, this time taking a Sioux Indian as her husband. She lost track of her half-breed daughter, evidently believing that her former husband would not allow her to have anything to do with the girl anyhow. But about a year ago she heard, through channels known only to Indians, that Phillips had died in Omaha, where he moved about three years ago.
DISPATCHES SON TO FIND DAUGHTER.
Since that time the Indian woman has been longing with all the mother's love any white woman ever bore for her children, to see her daughter again. So a few days ago she sent her son by her second marriage to Denver to see if he could trace her lost daughter through friends of Phillips who are now living in this city and through members of her tribe with whom he continued his friendship of earlier days.
The son - a half-brother of the missing daughter - is Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk who arrived in Denver yesterday morning. So far he has been unable to get any definite trace of his sister, but appealed to The Post to help him. Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk was born and spent his boyhood days on the Pine Ridge, S.D., reservation. He is well educated and has forsaken the picturesque headdress of feathers and the brightly colored blankets associated with Indian tribes and, except for his dark skin, he easily would be taken for a prosperous business man of the white race.
He has traveled extensively, and has been in France, Germany and other European countries. He carries with him a little note book, in which he has had persons of note of many countries write their names for him.
FEARS HIS SISTER MAY BE PREJUDICED
"Perhaps my sister doesn't care about being identified with our tribe," said Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk last night. "We Indians do not feel that we are inferior to anybody, but my sister was educated among white people, and live with her father - a white man. Perhaps she has a prejudice against the Indians, and would like to forget her own birth - that is, that she is half Sioux Indian.
"But my mother is getting old now, and she has not long to live. She wants to see her daughter before she dies. My mother's name is Clara-Lays-Bear and my sister's name is Lucy Phillips. That is not at all suggestive of an Indian reservation. And I want to see my sister, too. I don't remember her at all, but she was a favorite among my tribespeople when she was a little girl, and they remember her well, and if she will go back to the Pine Ridge with me she will find that she has many loyal friends among the Sioux Indians. They don't forget, you know, like white men. If my sister is living - and there never has come a message of her death to us - she is about 35 years old. She may be married, and may now have another name - the name of her husband.
HER REDSKIN MOTHER RICH IN WORLDLY GOODS.
"If she doesn't care to see her Indian mother, perhaps she will be glad to learn that she is an heiress, and that her redskin mother is rich in worldly goods, and can make her rich. Perhaps, also, because of her Indian blood, I can get for her an allotment of land form the government, to which, as an Indian, she is entitled. If she is married and had children, she is entitled to 620 acres of land. If she has no children, then she is entitled to 320 acres of land, besides money in the bank, of which my sister is entitled to her share as an equal heir with myself when my mother dies.
My father, Afraid-of-Hawk is still living in the Pine Ridge. He is separated from my mother, who married again. Her last husband is dead."
Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk is a bookkeeper in a department store in Manderson, S.D., near the Pine Ridge reservation. He is going from Denver to Omaha, and from that city back to Manderson, but hopes to carry with him news of his sister, and that he will have her promise to go to Pine Ridge Indian reservation to see their mother.
Denver Post
Denver, Colorado
8 Feb 1914
p. 31
retrieved from genealogybank.com
Daughter of Chief Paints Himself Yellow.
Married to Fielder Magruder Phillips in the early 1870s. They had two daughters (Lucy and ?) and one son (George).
After F. M. Phillips abandoned her and took their children, she married Afraid of Hawk.
_________________________________________________________
Indian Seeks Sister Long Lost to Tribe
Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk Is In Denver on Mission for Mother.
Worldly Wealth Awaits Woman if She Returns to Her People.
In the early '70s, when the Sioux Indians were almost constantly at war with the whites, there lived in Fort Laramie, Wyo., a white man, rich in cattle and lands, whom the Indians trusted as one of themselves, because he never broke his word with them. When the big medicine men of the Ogalalla Sioux started their war dances he was the only white man who had influence with them and he used his power to bring about a better understanding between the red men and their white brothers, and to prevent outbreaks against the whites.
The man's name was F. M. Phillips. When one day he noticed a beautiful Indian maiden of the Sioux tribe going about her duties around her father's tepee, according to the usual Indian custom, he drove a part of his cattle to the tepee in token of his desire to marry the Indian maiden. He was accepted, and for years cast his lot with the people from whom he had chosen his bride.
TAKES DAUGHTER ALONG WITH HIM.
The girls and a boy were born to the couple. The boy and one girl died, but the other girl lived. The United States government in the meantime had moved the Sioux Indian reservation from Fort Laramie to Pine Ridge. Phillips continued to prosper. Then he seemed to tire of the life he had been living among the Indians and divorced his Indian wife by the simple expedient of leaving her, but he took his daughter along with him. That was in 1885.
The deserted wife married again, this time taking a Sioux Indian as her husband. She lost track of her half-breed daughter, evidently believing that her former husband would not allow her to have anything to do with the girl anyhow. But about a year ago she heard, through channels known only to Indians, that Phillips had died in Omaha, where he moved about three years ago.
DISPATCHES SON TO FIND DAUGHTER.
Since that time the Indian woman has been longing with all the mother's love any white woman ever bore for her children, to see her daughter again. So a few days ago she sent her son by her second marriage to Denver to see if he could trace her lost daughter through friends of Phillips who are now living in this city and through members of her tribe with whom he continued his friendship of earlier days.
The son - a half-brother of the missing daughter - is Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk who arrived in Denver yesterday morning. So far he has been unable to get any definite trace of his sister, but appealed to The Post to help him. Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk was born and spent his boyhood days on the Pine Ridge, S.D., reservation. He is well educated and has forsaken the picturesque headdress of feathers and the brightly colored blankets associated with Indian tribes and, except for his dark skin, he easily would be taken for a prosperous business man of the white race.
He has traveled extensively, and has been in France, Germany and other European countries. He carries with him a little note book, in which he has had persons of note of many countries write their names for him.
FEARS HIS SISTER MAY BE PREJUDICED
"Perhaps my sister doesn't care about being identified with our tribe," said Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk last night. "We Indians do not feel that we are inferior to anybody, but my sister was educated among white people, and live with her father - a white man. Perhaps she has a prejudice against the Indians, and would like to forget her own birth - that is, that she is half Sioux Indian.
"But my mother is getting old now, and she has not long to live. She wants to see her daughter before she dies. My mother's name is Clara-Lays-Bear and my sister's name is Lucy Phillips. That is not at all suggestive of an Indian reservation. And I want to see my sister, too. I don't remember her at all, but she was a favorite among my tribespeople when she was a little girl, and they remember her well, and if she will go back to the Pine Ridge with me she will find that she has many loyal friends among the Sioux Indians. They don't forget, you know, like white men. If my sister is living - and there never has come a message of her death to us - she is about 35 years old. She may be married, and may now have another name - the name of her husband.
HER REDSKIN MOTHER RICH IN WORLDLY GOODS.
"If she doesn't care to see her Indian mother, perhaps she will be glad to learn that she is an heiress, and that her redskin mother is rich in worldly goods, and can make her rich. Perhaps, also, because of her Indian blood, I can get for her an allotment of land form the government, to which, as an Indian, she is entitled. If she is married and had children, she is entitled to 620 acres of land. If she has no children, then she is entitled to 320 acres of land, besides money in the bank, of which my sister is entitled to her share as an equal heir with myself when my mother dies.
My father, Afraid-of-Hawk is still living in the Pine Ridge. He is separated from my mother, who married again. Her last husband is dead."
Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk is a bookkeeper in a department store in Manderson, S.D., near the Pine Ridge reservation. He is going from Denver to Omaha, and from that city back to Manderson, but hopes to carry with him news of his sister, and that he will have her promise to go to Pine Ridge Indian reservation to see their mother.
Denver Post
Denver, Colorado
8 Feb 1914
p. 31
retrieved from genealogybank.com
Married to Fielder Magruder Phillips in the early 1870s. They had two daughters (Lucy and ?) and one son (George).
After F. M. Phillips abandoned her and took their children, she married Afraid of Hawk.
_________________________________________________________
Indian Seeks Sister Long Lost to Tribe
Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk Is In Denver on Mission for Mother.
Worldly Wealth Awaits Woman if She Returns to Her People.
In the early '70s, when the Sioux Indians were almost constantly at war with the whites, there lived in Fort Laramie, Wyo., a white man, rich in cattle and lands, whom the Indians trusted as one of themselves, because he never broke his word with them. When the big medicine men of the Ogalalla Sioux started their war dances he was the only white man who had influence with them and he used his power to bring about a better understanding between the red men and their white brothers, and to prevent outbreaks against the whites.
The man's name was F. M. Phillips. When one day he noticed a beautiful Indian maiden of the Sioux tribe going about her duties around her father's tepee, according to the usual Indian custom, he drove a part of his cattle to the tepee in token of his desire to marry the Indian maiden. He was accepted, and for years cast his lot with the people from whom he had chosen his bride.
TAKES DAUGHTER ALONG WITH HIM.
The girls and a boy were born to the couple. The boy and one girl died, but the other girl lived. The United States government in the meantime had moved the Sioux Indian reservation from Fort Laramie to Pine Ridge. Phillips continued to prosper. Then he seemed to tire of the life he had been living among the Indians and divorced his Indian wife by the simple expedient of leaving her, but he took his daughter along with him. That was in 1885.
The deserted wife married again, this time taking a Sioux Indian as her husband. She lost track of her half-breed daughter, evidently believing that her former husband would not allow her to have anything to do with the girl anyhow. But about a year ago she heard, through channels known only to Indians, that Phillips had died in Omaha, where he moved about three years ago.
DISPATCHES SON TO FIND DAUGHTER.
Since that time the Indian woman has been longing with all the mother's love any white woman ever bore for her children, to see her daughter again. So a few days ago she sent her son by her second marriage to Denver to see if he could trace her lost daughter through friends of Phillips who are now living in this city and through members of her tribe with whom he continued his friendship of earlier days.
The son - a half-brother of the missing daughter - is Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk who arrived in Denver yesterday morning. So far he has been unable to get any definite trace of his sister, but appealed to The Post to help him. Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk was born and spent his boyhood days on the Pine Ridge, S.D., reservation. He is well educated and has forsaken the picturesque headdress of feathers and the brightly colored blankets associated with Indian tribes and, except for his dark skin, he easily would be taken for a prosperous business man of the white race.
He has traveled extensively, and has been in France, Germany and other European countries. He carries with him a little note book, in which he has had persons of note of many countries write their names for him.
FEARS HIS SISTER MAY BE PREJUDICED
"Perhaps my sister doesn't care about being identified with our tribe," said Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk last night. "We Indians do not feel that we are inferior to anybody, but my sister was educated among white people, and live with her father - a white man. Perhaps she has a prejudice against the Indians, and would like to forget her own birth - that is, that she is half Sioux Indian.
"But my mother is getting old now, and she has not long to live. She wants to see her daughter before she dies. My mother's name is Clara-Lays-Bear and my sister's name is Lucy Phillips. That is not at all suggestive of an Indian reservation. And I want to see my sister, too. I don't remember her at all, but she was a favorite among my tribespeople when she was a little girl, and they remember her well, and if she will go back to the Pine Ridge with me she will find that she has many loyal friends among the Sioux Indians. They don't forget, you know, like white men. If my sister is living - and there never has come a message of her death to us - she is about 35 years old. She may be married, and may now have another name - the name of her husband.
HER REDSKIN MOTHER RICH IN WORLDLY GOODS.
"If she doesn't care to see her Indian mother, perhaps she will be glad to learn that she is an heiress, and that her redskin mother is rich in worldly goods, and can make her rich. Perhaps, also, because of her Indian blood, I can get for her an allotment of land form the government, to which, as an Indian, she is entitled. If she is married and had children, she is entitled to 620 acres of land. If she has no children, then she is entitled to 320 acres of land, besides money in the bank, of which my sister is entitled to her share as an equal heir with myself when my mother dies.
My father, Afraid-of-Hawk is still living in the Pine Ridge. He is separated from my mother, who married again. Her last husband is dead."
Emil-Afraid-of-Hawk is a bookkeeper in a department store in Manderson, S.D., near the Pine Ridge reservation. He is going from Denver to Omaha, and from that city back to Manderson, but hopes to carry with him news of his sister, and that he will have her promise to go to Pine Ridge Indian reservation to see their mother.
Denver Post
Denver, Colorado
8 Feb 1914
p. 31
retrieved from genealogybank.com
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