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• Albert Hensley and Adoption
  Hensley's mother died when he was a baby and he was fostered by his grandmother for five years, until she died. Then he He became a secular and spiritual leader of the Winnebago, Dakota and Ojibwa peoples, spreading the Peyote religion among them.
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• Hoo-moo-thy-ah and Adoption
  ...whites and made Hoo-moo-thy-ah largely responsible for his younger brother and sister. ...iers and their Pima and Maricopa scouts. He was then taken to Ft. McDowell and given to Lt. E.D. Thomas, who named him Mike Burns. He was given back to Ca
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• Peter Jacobs and Adoption
  ...ily|immediate family]] died while he was a young child and he grew up poor and alone. ...ntil 1858. He later came into conflict with the church, leading to poverty and alcoholism. Two of his children also became missionaries.
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• Benito Pablo Juárez and Adoption
  ...ng of her employer (whose daughter he later married), who had him educated and fostered by an elderly lay brother, Don Antonio Salanueva. ...ed to power in 1853 Juárez was expelled with other liberal intellectuals, and went into exile in the USA, where he conspired to overthrow the dictator.
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• Kul Kul Stu Hah and Adoption
  ...le of Big Hole ([[Montana]]) in 1877 and his mother was captured by whites and exiled to [[Oklahoma]] soon afterwards. ...s a delegate to the Presbyterian General Assembly representing both whites and Indians.
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• Edmonia Lewis and Adoption
  ...09, "after 1911," "last reported living in Rome in 1911," 1911?, and "date and place of her death are unknown." ...college in 1859. She was accused of trying to poison two fellow-students, and in spite of being acquitted (her lawyer was [[John Mercer Langston]]), she
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• Lone Wolf II and Adoption
  ...ge party, at which he was [[adopted]] by Lone Wolf I to replace Tau ah kia and given the name Lone Wolf. In 1879 he succeeded to the chieftainship. ...the lands of the Kiowa, once covering [[Oklahoma]], [[Kansas]], [[Texas]] and part of [[Mexico]], had been reduced to 160 acres per person.
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• Delos Knowles Lonewolf and Adoption
  ...eau of Indian Affairs boarding school he became a famous football fullback and was an active Methodist. He interpreted for [[Lone Wolf II]] in [[Washingto Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduction. ([[New York]]: Facts on File, 1992)
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• Buffalo Child Long Lance and Adoption
  ...frican American, but young Sylvester always thought of himself as a Native American. ...n Calgary, where he worked as a journalist, writing many stories about the Native Canadians of the western provinces.
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• Sophia Thomas Mason and Adoption
  Mason's father, a white trader, died in 1828 and she was raised by two different missionary families, rather than by her Cre She married a white minister in 1843 and in 1858 they emigrated to England, where she had nine children.
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• Minik and Adoption
  ...inik. With no immunity to European diseases, four of the people soon died, and one returned to Greenland, leaving only little Minik. ...he had become too acculturated to successfully make a complete transition, and went back to [[New York]] in 1916. He soon died in the 1918 flu pandemic. H
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• Carlos Montezuma and Adoption
  ...he left his father, who was unable to afford to educate the brilliant boy, and fostered by a better-off family. ...1 he returned to the Yavapai people, found the remnants of his own family, and in 1906 helped them in their legal fight to keep their lands, which were un
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• Mountain Wolf Woman and Adoption
  ...itionalist Winnebago family, Mountain Wolf Woman converted to Christianity and then to Peyotism. ...in her birth family. She was an influential member of the Peyote religion, and foretold her own death in 1960.
  1 KB (162 words) - 19:55, 16 June 2014
• Native American and Alaskan Native Children and Adoption
  ...acknowledged reason for this was to eradicate Native American and Alaskan Native culture. ...ny respects this was like the treatment meted out to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children.
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• Quanah Parker and Adoption
  ...chief, Nocona. After 25 years, in 1860, she was recaptured by the whites, and died in 1864. Parker's father also died about that time, leaving him a teen ...of some white ways but also promoted traditionalist ways such as peyotism and polygamy. He was active in the fight to legalize the Peyote religion.
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