Ancient artifacts have always been things of curiosity and wonder for those who discover them, including Ex-Lieutenant Lamb of the United States army. In the period preceding 1921, Franklin Lamb uncovered a burial mound that was near Fort Wayne that he thought to be "peculiar looking". He had been the quartermaster of the fort when he noticed the mound, and his curiosity could not be sated until he...
On October 7, 1863 Captain Ely S. Parker of the United States Army wrote a letter to his brother Nic under the belief that their father was dead, bemoaning that, “We are orphans, scattered far and wide across this country. We must all do our best. We can feel that our lost parents have gone the course of nature.” Parker ended the letter by asking Nic to move in with their sister left alone by the...
In 1975, the shooting of the two FBI agents took place on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota and four Native Americans were accused of the murder. The four men accused were Robert Robideau, Dino Butler, Leonard Peltier and Jimmy Eagle. Leonard Peltier was a Native American who was one of the four men to be accused for the murder. Robert Robideau and Dino Butler were charged for murder and...
On May 23, 1930, School Board Chairman W.H. Godwin told a graduating class “to have some ambition in life, to beware of bad company, obey the laws of the land and in so doing obey the laws of God. Learn to live and act in a way in which people will respect…remembering always that there is a place for skill.” The graduating class he addressed consisted of fifteen youths who attended an Indian...