{"id":762,"date":"2020-08-01T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/?p=762"},"modified":"2021-05-01T00:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T00:56:35","slug":"girl-of-many-peoples-oyateotawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/girl-of-many-peoples-oyateotawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Great-Great-Grandma Oyateotawi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pictured here is my great-great-grandma Oyateotawi. Her name means \u201cGirl of Many Peoples.\u201d Native American genealogy is not easy to trace (they didn\u2019t keep written records), but from what I can find, Oyateotawi is closely related to chiefs Little Crow and Big Thunder. How she ended up at the frontier fort in what is now Sisseton, SD, is not known. She married the fort\u2019s first sergeant, Robert Francis White (Irish-American, b. 1852, St. Louis). He is pictured in the second photo, taken from the fort\u2019s museum in Sisseton. The third photo is of a few of my cousins at the last family reunion. We might not look Native American, but well, like our great-great-grandma, and so many other Americans, we are a people of many nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Tribe: Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n