John Baptist Perrote
John Baptist Perrote | |
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.jpg) Undated photo of Perrote wearing traditional clothing | |
| Born | c. 1840 Near Lake Winnebago |
| Died | 1920 |
| Other name | Sabatis |
John Baptist Perrote, or Sabatis, was a Menominee tribal court judge and religious leader.
Perrote was born around 1840 near Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin.[1] His parents came from a Menominee village called Wasûske'’sino near Chilton.[2] He was descended from Nicolas Perrot, a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader.[3]
Perrote lived in the Fond du Lac area until the Menominee were removed to the Menominee Indian Reservation.[4] Perrote was a grandmaster of the Medicine Dance and a leader of the Dream Dance, as well as a judge of the Menominee tribal court. In the early 20th century he developed a close relationship with Alanson B. Skinner, an anthropologist who studied the Menominee in depth. Perrote became a key source of information in Skinner's studies of Menominee culture.[1]
Perrote died of illness on July 10th, 1920 on the Menominee reservation and was buried with the honors of a Medicine Dance grandmaster, Dream Dance leader, and federal judge.[5] The town of Perote, which was later abandoned, was named after him.[6]
References
- 1 2 Hall 1997, p. 59
- ↑ Skinner 1921, p. 387
- ↑ Houghton 1918, pp. 26, 161
- ↑ Skinner 1921, p. 218
- ↑ Hall 1997, pp. 60–61, 67
- ↑ Skinner 1921, p. 390
Bibliography
- Hall, Robert L. (1997). An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252066023.
- Houghton, Louise Seymour (1918). Our Debt to the Red Man: The French-Indians in the Development of the United States. Stratford. IA ourdebttoredmanf00houg.
- Skinner, Alanson (1921). Material Culture of the Menomini. Museum of the American Indian. doi:10.5479/sil.954900.39088015621725.