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.Two years later, he helped arrange the National Museum sIndian collections for exhibition at the Centennial Exposition.Aftera brief period as curator of the museum s Department of Ethnology,he joined the staff of the Bureau of Ethnology and in 1879 he trav-eled to the Southwest.He lived among the Zunis, was adopted intothe tribe, joined one of the orders of Zuni priesthood, and by 1882had become a subchief.In 1886, he organized an archaeologicalexpedition to a Salt River site in Arizona, and thereafter worked onarchaeological sites in the Great Lakes region and Florida.(Thrapp,1991, 1:361)DANILSON (which Bourke spelled Danielson), William H.,an army officer when appointed agent at Fort Hall in 1869, wasrequired under the Army Appropriation Act of 1870 to choose be- 492 APPENDIXtween his commission or his post as agent.He chose to resign fromthe army and remain as agent.Danilson had entered the army as aprivate in the Volunteers in 1861, and by the end of the Civil Warhad been breveted to major.After mustering out of the Volunteers,he accepted a commission as first lieutenant of the 40th Infantry.Although the Shoshones and Bannocks at Fort Hall were preparedto give up their nomadic life and settle, Danilson was hamstrungthroughout the 1870s by inadequate government appropriations.Eventually the Bannocks left in disgust, setting off a chain of eventsleading to the uprising of 1878.Nevertheless, Danilson managed tomaintain the Indians confidence in his own integrity.(Heitman,1:353; Madsen)DAWES, Henry Laurens (1816 1903), Republican from Massa-chusetts whose congressional career ran from 1857 to 1893, is bestremembered for the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, also known as theGeneral Allotment Act.Dawes opposed the removal of the Poncas.As chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, he beganwork on what became the Dawes Severalty Act, to abolish tribalownership of reservation land and allocate tracts to Indian males.Unallocated lands would be thrown open to settlement.The purpose,which appears condescending now but was considered enlightenedin his own time, was to destroy tribal identity, and provide economicindependence and education, so that Indians could be assimilatedinto the dominant culture.(Lamar, 288 89)DE LESSEPS, Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte (1805 94), Frenchdiplomat and construction magnate who was best known for build-ing the Suez Canal.A native of Versailles, he entered diplomaticservice in 1825, and spent much of his career in North Africa,where he first envisioned a canal connecting the Mediterraneanwith the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.After his retirement, he suc-cessfully negotiated a concession for the Suez Canal, which wasconstructed between 1859 and 1869.In 1882, he began construc-tion of a projected sea-level canal across Panama, which failed inpart because of the engineering impracticalities, corruption, anddisease.(Wikipedia)DE SMET, Pierre-Jean (1801 73), a Belgian-born Jesuit, minis-tered to the Indians of Montana, Oregon, and Idaho for more thanthree decades beginning in 1840.During this period, he also madenineteen trips to Europe to recruit priests and nuns to work among PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE DIARY 493the Indians.He served as mediator between the Indians and whites,including at the Fort Laramie Treaty conference in 1868.(Utley,1997, 122)DORSEY, James Owen (1848 95), Episcopalian missionary, wasresident missionary to the Poncas from 1871 to 1873, and remainedassociated with them in Nebraska and Dakota.He joined the Bureauof Ethnology in 1879 as an ethnologist and linguist.He authoredworks on Siouan languages, and contributed to the monumentalHandbook of American Indians North of Mexico.(Mathes andLowitt)DUNDY, Elmer Scipio (1830 96), native of Ohio, practiced law inPennsylvania from 1853 until 1857 when he relocated to Nebraska.He was a member of the Territorial County from 1858 to 1863, andthe following year was appointed U.S.Territorial Judge for Nebraska.In 1868, he was appointed to the newly created federal court forthe District of Nebraska, a post he held until his death.See alsoSTANDING BEAR; TIBBLES, Thomas Henry.(http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=664)EADS, James Buchanan (1820 87), was one of the foremostAmerican engineers of the nineteenth century.A native of Lawrence-burg, Indiana, he became purser on a Mississippi steamer in 1838,and became aware of the economic potential of salvaging sunkenboats.He patented a diving bell and, in 1842, began a successfulsalvage business.During the Civil War, he constructed the iron-cladgunboats that helped secure Union control of the Mississippi.In1874, he completed what is considered his greatest achievement,the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River at St.Louis, that manyengineers considered impossible using the technology of the era.(Johnson and Malone, 5:587 89)EASTMAN, Galen, Navajo agent, incurred the hatred of the In-dians by trying to enforce his religious convictions on them.Brig.Gen.John Pope, commander of the Department of the Missouri,under whose jurisdiction the reservation fell, believed that Eastman sfanaticism made him unfit for his position and he was removed fromhis post in 1880.He was reinstated, however, the following year andcomplained vehemently about military interference.Pope s positionwas that the Navajos still had enough power to give the governmentserious trouble, and consequently should be handled very carefully.(Bancroft, Arizona and New Mexico, 733 35 n13) 494 APPENDIXELLISON, Samuel, territorial librarian of New Mexico, was anative of Kentucky who went to Texas in 1837.After serving inthe Mexican War, he went to New Mexico in 1848, serving in manydifferent public positions before becoming territorial librarian andarchivist in 1881.(Bancroft, Arizona and New Mexico.791 n7)EWING, Thomas (1829 96), was a Democratic representativefrom Ohio from 1877 to 1881 and General Sherman s brother-in-law.Prior to the Civil War, he lived in Kansas, where he was a memberof the constitutional convention of 1868, and chief justice of thestate s supreme court in 1861 and 1862.He served in the Volunteersduring the Civil War, rising to the active rank of brigadier generalwith brevet of major general.(Biographical Directory of the UnitedStates Congress)FINERTY, John Frederick (1846 1908), a political refugee fromIreland, became a correspondent for the Chicago Times, and coveredmore Indian war campaigns than any other professional journalist.In 1876, he covered Crook s expeditions, and his book, War-Pathand Bivouac is one of the most complete accounts.He also coveredthe Ute campaign of 1879, visited Sitting Bull in exile in Canada, andcovered the 1881 Apache uprising.He was a member of Congressfrom 1883 to 1885.(Finerty; Knight, 173 74; Lamar, 369)FOX, Gustavus Vasa (1821 83), former naval officer, was assistantsecretary of the navy under Abraham Lincoln.The joint effort ofSecretary Gideon Welles setting overall policy, and Fox handling day-to-day administration was instrumental in the success of combinedoperations between the Union Navy and Army.(Wikipedia)FRANKLIN, Charles A [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]