Shauhaunapotinia
Shauhaunapotinia | |
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| Born | c. 1816 |
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| Citizenship | Iowa |
| Occupations | chief, diplomat |
Shauhaunapotinia (born c. 1816), Man Who Killed Three Sioux, also known as Moanahonga, the Great Walker, was a chief of the Ioway people from the vicinity of the Missouri River of North America. His portrait, painted in 1835,[1] or 1837, appears as plate 2 in volume 7 (P27731) in McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America.[2][3] He is one of seven Ioway people pictured in the collection.[4]
His "likeness was taken" when he traveled to Washington, D.C., in company with Mahaskah.[5] The picture made was included in the exhibit Beauty and Wildness: American Western Art in Grand Junction, Colorado, in 1980.[1]
His names come from his trek of 100 miles to avenge the death of his "boyhood chum," killed at age 19.[6] He made his way to a Sioux village of 400 where he killed three people, bringing back their scalps back as trophies. For this, the "skins of the polecat, these being the insignia of bravery" were bound to his legs "below his knees."[5]
References
- 1 2 "Shau-Hau-Napo-Tinia". The Daily Sentinel. September 5, 1980. p. 23. Retrieved 2026-07-01.
- ↑ Menyuk (2022), p. 8.
- ↑ "Indian Biography No. 7". The Philadelphia Inquirer. February 6, 1838. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-07-01.
- ↑ "Early Nebraska Indians". Omaha World-Herald. February 7, 1892. p. 14. Retrieved 2026-07-01.
- 1 2 Indian Tribes No. 7 (1838), pp. 168–169.
- ↑ "Shau-Hau-Napo-Tinia". Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days. VI (1). Spanish Expedition Number. Nebraska State Historical Society: 40. January–March 1923. ISSN 0196-0741.
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Sources
- The Indian Tribes of North America No. 7. Philadelphia: F. W. Greenough. 1838. NMAI.AC.115_ref7 – via Smithsonian Institution.
- Frazier, Patrick (1996). Portrait Index of North American Indians in Published Collections (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-8444-0930-6. LCCN 96027339. OCLC 35222941. OL 3282863W. SuDocs LC 1.2:P 83/3/996.
- Menyuk, Rachel (2022). "McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America folios and lithographs" (PDF). National Museum of the American Indian. NMAI.AC.115.