Notes for Jim Tombay JOHNSON

!NAME: >"(<: Tom bay [59:24]

!NAME: Johnson, Jim [59:24]

!GENEALOGY: Minnesota Historical Society, R.J. Powell Papers,
Microf. M-455, Roll 10, Powell Genealogies, family
#59:3

Notes for Jodi Ann JOHNSON

!B.I.A._1934_INDIAN_REORGANIZATION_ACT: I.R.A. Council "Red Lake Reservation
Basic Roll," [10 Nov 1958], Resolution No. 70-60, #1522
[transcripton by V. Rogers], Red Lake blood quantum 3/4, other 3/4

!BIA_"INDIAN"_ENROLLMENT, Red Lake Reservation 1983 [trnscr. from BIA printout]
2529 F Head 07 MAY 1958, blood quantum: 13/16; Addr: 6971 Dawn Ave  Inver Grove
Hts, MN
55075

Notes for John JOHNSON

!NAME: Johnson, John (1887-8) [1912]

!NAME: Johnson, John [1958]

!NARA_RG_75, Series M-595, Films #243-245, 418-424 and 649-654, Red Lake BIA
Enrollment, 1912:438/473

!B.I.A._1934_INDIAN_REORGANIZATION_ACT: I.R.A. Council "Red Lake Reservation
Basic Roll," [10 Nov 1958], Resolution No. 70-60
[transcription by V. Rogers], Red Lake blood quantum 1/2
[this person's blood quantum is also listed as "3/4" in this same
record]

Notes for John JOHNSON

!CENSUS: Minnesota Historical Society, R.J. Powell Papers, Microf. M-455, Roll
14/0032, Full Blood

Notes for John JOHNSON

!GENEALOGY: Minnesota Historical Society, R.J. Powell Papers, Microf. M-455,
  Roll 14/0032, Mixed Blood

!MCT: Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Base Rolls [Abt 1936]:3926, blood quantum
13/16

Notes for John JOHNSON

place of marriage originally listed as Presbyterian Church, Northern
Ireland

Notes for John JOHNSON

!NAME: Johnson, John (died OCT 12, 1919)

Notes for John JOHNSON

!CENSUS: [U.S. Census, Morrison County, 1860, family 68 68], teamster,
estate $400

Notes for John JOHNSON

!CENSUS: [U.S. Census, Morrison County, 1860, family 68 68]

Notes for John JOHNSON

!CENSUS: [U.S. Census, Becker County, 1870, family 14/14] - white, laborer,
both parents of foreign birth, male citizen over age 21, estate $500
(also listed: Daniel McKay, laborer; George Osburn, laborer, Harvey Jones,
laborer)

Notes for John JOHNSON

!U.S. CENSUS: Becker County, 1870, family 17/17
- white, both parents of foreign birth

Notes for John JOHNSON

!U.S. CENSUS: Becker County, 1870, (listed under #45, Jonas Erickson, laborer)
white laborer both parents of foreign birth estate
$200

Notes for John JOHNSON

!NAME: John (1904-5) [1907-8]

!NAME: Johnson, John (1904-5) [1912]

!NARA_RG_75, Series M-595, Films #243-245, 418-424 and 649-654, Red Lake BIA
Enrollment, 1907:211, 1908:206,
1912:418/450

Notes for John JOHNSON

!NARA_RG_75, Series M-595, Films #243-245, 418-424 and 649-654, Red Lake BIA
Enrollment, 1920:534/565, 1930:757, 1938:862/835
[1938: blood quantum "1/2"]

!Beltrami County Death Records, Death Book F - page 141 #6: usual residence
Redlake, Minnesota; male, Indian, married; wife: Jenny
Johnson

Notes for John A. JOHNSON

!U.S. CENSUS: Becker County, 1870, family 17 17, white, both parents of
foreign birth

Notes for John Enemegahbow Odahwahkewenzee JOHNSON

!NAME: JOHNSON, John (1820) [1860 U.S.]

!NAME: Johnson, John (ABT 1820) [1889 "Agreement"]

!NAME: "/:^:\,<" En-e-me-gah-bow [VR #17n]

!NAME: :^:/:\,<" (1820 - 11 Jun 1902) En-e-me-gah-bow [WELSA]

!NAME: :(/:\,<" (1815 - JUN, 1902) En-me-gah-bowh [Obit]

!NAME: Johnson, John (before 1839)

!NAME: ">,',\:':(-; O dah wah ke wen zee ["Old Ottawa Man"] [Powell 10/0243]

!NAME: Johnson, Rev. John [Powell 10/0243] [WELSA]

!GENEALOGY: Minnesota Historical Society, R.J. Powell Papers, Microf. M-455,
Roll 10, Powell Genealogies, families #41:47, #90:11

!RELI: Register Baptisatorum ... in Missine Parochiali Crowwing et Filialbus
Proseme ... per me Francis Pierz [V.R. transcription]

1889 Agreement, Mississippi White Earth, #87: John Johnson, age 69 (signed)

!CENSUS: [U.S. Census, Cass County, 1860, family 182/182], born Upper Canada,
Protestant Episcopal Clergyman - Indian, estate $100
(also listed: Eva White Fisher; Charles Rupensfroach, schoolteacher)

[The Chippeway Herald, White Earth, Minnesota, APR, 1903], "Another of the
living links that served so long to bind together the meories of statehood and
territorial days in Minnesota is gone.  The greatest and best beloved of all
the Indian missionaries of the North Star State, En-me-gah-bowh, died at the
White Earth Reservation in JUN, 1902, and the event which transpired but such
a short time ago is now revived by the fact that admirers of the red men in
general and En-me-gah-bowh in particular are taking active measures to secure
for his last resting place a fitting monument.
   Those who can claim the honor of having met the famous Indian will not
wonder that such steps are being taken, ... no one ever held even the briefest
conversation with him without carrying away in their memories the deepest
admiration for the man.
   According to the baptismal record of the Episcopalian church is name was
John Johnson, but his Ottawa name seemed much more appropriate when one
considers that, translated into English, it means "He-who-goes-before."
   En-me-gah-bowh was born of Ottawa parents on the northern shore of Lake
Ontario, in the Canadian province of the same name, in 1815, but in what
season no one ever knew.  It is a well known fact that evr since the
settlement of Ontario, or Upper Canada, that the Methodists of the province
were very zealous missionaries and pioneers in every respect, and it was
through this trait of character on the part of the whites of his native heath
that En-me-gah-bowh first came to Minnesota.  He was noted, even in his early
youth, among the missionaries for his more than ordinary keeness of intellect
and they rewarded it about the year 1835 by employing him as an interpreter
and teacher and bringing him with them into the then wilderness of Minnesota
territory.
   One of his very first charges was a school in the village of the famous
chief of the Chippewas at that time, "Hole-in-the-day."  In 1839 he was sent
to the Methodist college at Jacksonville, Ill., and while there it was his
priviledge to hear Abraham Lincoln defend a man who was being tried on a
charge of murder.  Several others had accompanied Johnson to the trial and one
of them, turning to the Indian, said of Lincoln: "That is the money he is
going to receive that is talking so eloquently."  "No, no" vehemently replied
the red man, "he is talking very earnest -- he believes every word he is
saying!"  Ever after one of his highest ideals was the great emancipator.
   After his return to Minnesota, when his studies were over, he and Rev. Dr.
Kavanagh were walking one day through the village of Hole-in-the-Day as they
left the church where Johnson had just preached.  Kavanaugh said him after
they had walked some distance in silence: "Did you see that young girl who sat
in church next to an old blind woman -- the girl who was covered with silver
brooches and trinklets?"  The red man replied that he had noticed her, and
then Kavanagh continued, "I would very much like to see you settled with a
wife.  I'd like to know that you had really taken life in earnest and intended
to settle here in this field for good and all.  Don't you think that girl
would make a splendid companion for life?"
   At this point, they came upon Mr. Fosturm, a Mississippi river piolt, and
his advice was asked upon the question.  He said that the maiden was a niece
of Hole-in-the-Day, that he had known many young chiefs who had tried in vain
to sue for her hand, her answer to them all was "No, no!"
   He could give En-me-gah-bowh very little encouragement.  But, they thought
nothing could be gained by not trying; so they went directly to the teepee of
the maiden where they found her.  Mr. Fosturm said, "I have come with my young
friend, En-me-gah-bowh, to ask if you will take his hand and life with him as
man and wife."
   The maiden looked at him and smiled, saying: "Ask my parents."  They sought
the father, who said: "But your friend is a stranger; if he should take her
away it would break our hearts, for she is our only child.  She has never been
away from us."  The arrangement was arrived at, after much pow-wowing, as is
the custom of the people, it was decided that En-me-gah-bowh should marry the
girl upon his promise to remain in the country.
   That night the maiden was prepared for the baptism and the ceremony took
place next morning.  By it her name was changed to Charlotte, conferred upon
her by the daughter of Allen Morrison, "one of the best Indian traders on the
frontier."  They were soon after married.
   Notwithstanding all the enthusiasm En-me-gah-bowh had ever displayed in
religous matters he was not altogether satisfied with the Methodist manner of
doing things; and it was in 1846, during the course of a service at Fort
Snelling, that he asked the chaplian, Rev. E.G. Gear, to instruct him so that
he might, with as little delay as possible, be received into the Episcopalian
church.
   In 1852 En-me-gah-bowh asked Dr. Breck to establish a mission at Gull Lake.
This was done and in 1859 the Indian missionary was himself appointed its
pastor, after being ordained by Bishop Kemper.  There after for many years his
name headed the list of the clergy of the Episcopalian church of Minnesota;
and he was the first of twelve Indian priests who ministered in native
churches in the Northland.
   During those troublesome times of 1862, when Rev. Peake was obliged to
leave Gull Lake and take refuge at Crow Wing, En-me-gah-bowh remained at his
post.  It was known to him that the chief of the Chippewas, Hole-in-the-Day,
had, in conjunction with the Southern Sioux, planned a fearful massacre in the
North.  This he could not idly sit by and see it come to bloody culmination
without endeavoring to save those who had been most kind to him, so he
despatched a messenger to the friendly Mill Lacs Indians urging them to send
messengers to the defense of Fort Ripley.
   The next day Mr. Peake, in Crow Wing, saw one hundred Indians marching
through the village, the American flag at their head, going to the relief of
Fort Ripley, seven miles distant.  All that night, En-me-gah-bowh had walked
down Gull river, dragging a canoe in which were his wife and children, on his
way to warn the fort in case the Mill Lacs should fail him.  From the exposure
of thatnight two of the children died.  Through his intervention the massacre,
which promised at one time to be one of the bloodiest in the history of
America, was averted.
   The commissioner of Indian affairs, who was in the fort at that time, was
so overpowered by gratitude to En-me-gah-bowh and the Mille Lacs that for some
time he could say nothing.  He afterwards promised that they should ot only
be rewarded by the government, but that they should not be removed from their
reservation, a matter that was causing great speculation among the red men of
Minnesota at that time.  Pledges to that effect were made and incorporated in
a treaty -- only to be shortly after broken, like all the other promises made
to the Indian.
   Upon removal of the Gull Lake Indians to White Earth, En-me-gah-bowh
accompanied them thither where he build the Church of St. Colubia at a cost
of $10,000.
   A pretty story is told of his trip through the East, where he raised the
major portion of the money with which he built the edifice.  When in
Washington Jennie Lind, the Swedish Nightengale, sent for him and displayed
her intense interest in him and his people by the numberless questions she
asked him about his life.
   In telling about it afterward En-me-gah-bowh aid:
   "How much do you you rquire, Mr. Johnson?  She asked me when I had told her
the object of my mission in the East.
   "I was so taken aback that I sat there just like a dumb beast.  My
compaions were the same.  No one dared to name a sum for fear if we said too
much she would give nothing; and that if we did not say enough she would not
give as much as was in her mind.  The silence grew very long.  I though we
might lose all, and said, "$500."
   "Oh' she exclaimed, 'that's not enough." and when I looked at the cheque
it was for $1,000.
   Nine times the veteran visited Washington in the interests of his adopted
people.  His was a wonderful tact for bringing home to the simple minds of the
red men the wants and desires of their lots.  He was wildly eloquent yet with
greater degree of stability.  He knew how to work his hearer into a perfect
turmoil of unrest, and with a few well chosen words he would show them the
true way by which to gain that which their soul's desired.  He understood
theirnatures, he was a master among them, but he was a statesman, a leader.
   A chief of the Pembina Indians said to Bishop Whipple: "I am a wild man.
I knew the Indians in the East had perished.  I was sad for my children.  My
fathers told me there was a great Spirit.  I have gone into the woods and
tried to find him to talk to him.  I could not take hold of his hand.  I went
to your Spirit man, En-me-gah-bowh, I sat at his feet, and is well now.  I
have the story written in my heart."
   In a letter written a short time before his death to a ember of Bishop
Whipple's family, Ene-me-gah-bowh said:
   "My heart tells me -- the forest whispers it -- I shall soon be with my
bishop.  My heart cries out for him.  The older Indians above are lonely.
They will soon go in search of him.  If it be the will of the Great Spirit
that I see you in our land before I die, my people will rejoice greatly.  Good
bye."
   On Tuesday, Feb. 10, a petition was presented to the legislatature to erect
a monument at his grave.  The signers of the petition are: Alex Ramsey, John
B. Sanborn, Henry P. Upham, J.S. Brower, E.W. Durant, A.L. Larpenteur, John
Epsy, D.T. Hall, William W. Folwell, J.D. Ludden, Charles E. Flandreau, W.P.
Murray, Hiram F. Stevens, T.J. Knox, Daniel Fish, M.R. Tuler, L.W. Collins,
William H. Yale, Charles H. Graves -- St. Paul Globe [FEB 15, 1903].

!WELSA_Genealogy_Sheets [B.I.A. Records, abt 1992], Red Lake,
#502

Notes for John Francis JOHNSON

!B.I.A._1934_INDIAN_REORGANIZATION_ACT: I.R.A. Council "Red Lake Reservation
Basic Roll," [10 Nov 1958], Resolution No. 70-60, #1525
[transcripton by V. Rogers], Red Lake blood quantum 7/16, other 7/8

!BIA_"INDIAN"_ENROLLMENT, Red Lake Reservation 1983 [trnscr. from BIA printout]
2599 M Head 27 MAY 1942, blood quantum: 7/16; Addr: 315 N 14th Ave E  Duluth,
MN
55805