encyclopedia-amazonica:Hanging Cloud - Ojibwe warriorAazhawigiizhigokwe (c.1835-c.1919), whose name
encyclopedia-amazonica:Hanging Cloud - Ojibwe warriorAazhawigiizhigokwe (c.1835-c.1919), whose name literally means “Goes across the sky woman” and can translate as “Hanging Cloud”, was an Ojibwe woman who became an ogichidaakwe (warrior). The Wisconsin Historical Society claims that she was the only Ojibwe woman to ever access full warrior status. Though it seems that Ojibwe men dominated the warrior status, tradition reports that some women were nonetheless honored for their martial prowess. Such was the case of a woman who demonstrated her courage against the neighboring Iroquois. Hanging Cloud’s father was chief Nenaa’angebi (Beautifying Bird) and she was apparently his favorite daughter. As a full warrior council member, she was allowed to join war dance and ceremonies. Dr. Richard E. Morse of Detroit met her when he observed the 1855 annuity payment at La Pointe. He describes Hanging Cloud as a “a chivalrous warrior, of tried courage and valor” who was “slim and spare-built, between eighteen and twenty years of age”. She wore war paint and eagle feathers tied with ribbons to indicate the number of enemies she had killed. Hanging Cloud was dressed for riding, wearing broadcloth leggings under a short skirt. As she sat “her fingers played furtively with the haft of a good sized knife”. As part of her coming of age ceremony, Hanging Cloud underwent 10 days of ritual fasting during which she reportedly had a vision where she accompanied a war party in Sioux territory. During this expedition, only one enemy was killed and his scalp was brought home. After the fasting period was over, Hanging Cloud insisted upon joining the war party. Things went as she had foreseen in her vision and she thus won her people’s respect. She was also famed for having shot a Sioux assassin that would have killed her father. Other reports from 1855 state that after her father died that year, Mdwakanton Dakota Sioux attacked the village. Hanging Cloud’s Dakota uncle led the battle and she killed his son, her cousin, during the fight. She expressed her pride at having protected her village. Hanging Cloud married three times, all to white men and had 6 children in total. An account states that she found herself with two husbands at once, since she thought that her first husband was dead. Its reliability is nonetheless disputed. Bibliography: Aby Anne J., North Star StateMorse, Richard F., The Chippewas of Lake Superior “No Princess Zone: Hanging Cloud, the Ogichidaakwe”Wakim Dennis Yvonne, Hirschfelder Arlene, Rothenberger Flynn Shannon, Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples -- source link
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