I've added a link to this email under Peter 'Petow' Morrison on the website; it's
possible that family members will write you.
http://www.ojibwe.info/Ojibwe/HTML/people/p00001nu.htm#I22453
On Sat, February 24, 2007 16:41, Christian Morrison wrote:
> Wow! Sounds like I've got a lot of work ahead of me. I thought I'd be as
> simple as finding relatives and making contact with them. I'd really like
> to meet them, and I know my father would as well. I have a friend that
> works in or with the Dept. of Interior, can't remember. Either way, at
> least I'll get some information on how to obtain this information.
> Offhand,
> do you know people from either White Earth, or Red Lake that are or would
> be
> siblings of Peter Morrison? I was under the assumption they were from
> Mille
> Lac and Fon Du Lac. I could be wrong. Great to have a guide such as
> yourself. I'm very glad I found you on the internet. Thank for the info.
> It's blizzarding here in central South Dakota.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clara [mailto:clara@nerp.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:09 PM
> To: Christian Morrison
> Subject: RE: Family
>
> Tuffy,
>
> There are quite a few Morrisons in Minnesota - there are (partial) lists
> of descendants of Allen Morrison [focusing on Red Lake (for privacy
> reasons, mostly those born before 1958):
> http://www.ojibwe.info/RedLake/HTML/people/p00000j9.htm#I11861 - and with
> more information on White Earth enrollees (born before 1900):
> http://www.ojibwe.info/Ojibwe/HTML/people/p00001nn.htm#I32493].
>
> My guess is that at least some of the allotments in which Peter Morrison's
> descendants had an interest were at White Earth, and that the papers your
> father received probably involved payments under the WELSA act:
> 'compensation' for allotments that were fraudlently taken at White Earth
> (only about 7% of the land on that reservation is Indian-owned).
>
> At least for Indian people, those WELSA determinations were made by an
> Administrative Law Judge under the aegis of the Department of the Interior
> (offices in Fort Snelling, near the Twin Cities International Airport in
> Minnesota).
>
> It might take some persistence to get copies from the Department of the
> Interior, but those WELSA heirship determinations would have [partial -
> the WELSA act excluded some people as heirs] lists of your relatives
> through Peter Morrison. The bulk of the WELSA determinations were made
> 1984 through the mid-1990s, and those records would also include contact
> information current as of the time the determinations were made.
>
> Good luck :-)
>
> it's snowing here...
>
> Clara
>
>
>
> On Sat, February 24, 2007 2:59 pm, Christian Morrison wrote:
>> Clara,
>> Thank you so very much for your input and suggestions. I will be
>> meeting
>> with an elder lady by the name of Ruby Morrison, who is the daughter of
>> Robert Morrison and Annie Quigley. Apparently she has some
>> documentation
>> that can hopefully shed some light on the journey of the Morrison name.
>> It's very strange though. A few years back there was a young lady who
>> called my father (Leroy Morrison Sr.) via telephone and basically told
>> him
>> that she was instructed by her father to contact family here in South
>> Dakota. Not understanding the significance at the time, my father did
>> not
>> write her information down. Knowing that, I'd like to find out how
>> close
>> of
>> family we truly have in Minnesota. I know we have family in Cheyenne
>> River
>> which is located in Eagle Butte, SD. I also know that my father has
>> land
>> papers or lease papers that indicate him and his brothers & sisters
>> receive
>> payments from land that is located in Minnesota. The name that is on
>> the
>> original allottee paperwork is Peter (petow) Morrison. I have no idea
>> where
>> the land is, or how much etc. I'd have to look into that further. I
>> guess
>> what I'd really like to know is how much family do we have in Minnesota?
>> There is basically just my family here on the Rosebud that are Morrison,
>> and
>> there are also few in Oglala (Pine Ridge). But I know that those are
>> offspring from Peter (petow) Morrison. I'd like to truly find our roots
>> from Minnesota and meet them. I once found a man online from the Boise
>> Forte Tribe in Minnesota and If I remember right, his name was Dale
>> Morrison. I think he worked in the finance office for that tribe. With
>> the
>> business that I own and operate, I once met an Ashley Morrison on a
>> visit
>> to
>> the Shakopee Sioux Tribe. Of course not realizing the significance, I
>> didn't ask many questions. Hopefully I can arrange to meet some of the
>> families that know we are here. If any. Thanks again for the
>> information.
>> I will continue on my quest. Have a great weekend!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Clara [mailto:clara@nerp.net]
>> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:36 PM
>> To: Christian Morrison
>> Subject: RE: Family
>>
>>> How did we come to be Sioux?
>>
>> Tuffy
>>
>> That's a question that it's probably going to take you some detailed
>> historical research to answer.
>>
>> If you haven't done so already, you might start with both sides of your
>> own family - your generation - and talk with elders.
>>
>> The National Archives sells microfilms - at $85 per roll - you (and
>> almost
>> everyone else at Rosebud) would likely be particularly interested in
>> M595,
>> microfilms, including:
>>
>> The Rosebud Sioux rolls
>> M595, roll 444 Rosebud and Yankton Sioux Indians: 1934-35
>> M595, roll 445 1936-39, 1942-43
>>
>> [see
>>
> http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/population/native-americans-1885-19
>> 40.html]
>>
>> What Wub-e-ke-niew and I did, in compiling the databases that are
>> online,
>> was make printouts of selected census rolls, and then go over them with
>> elders (mostly in the 1980s and early 1990s - it would have been
>> wonderful
>> to have made some videos - most of those elders are now gone); reading
>> the
>> names of people remembered from their childhood and youth was sometimes
>> very powerfully evocative of memories... (We also made a lot
>> photocopies
>> of records to give to people.)
>>
>> Since Peter Morrison (born about 1857,
>> http://www.ojibwe.info/Ojibwe/HTML/people/p00001nu.htm#I22453) was
>> allotted at White Earth - probably in the 1890s - as were his children
>> with Jane [Cadotte] and Margaret Fairbanks [who, from the birthdates of
>> their children, look like co-wives, fairly common at that time among
>> people with cultural roots in the fur trade], I can think of several
>> ways
>> in which your family ended up at Rosebud.
>>
>> - Your 'Morrison' ancestor may have married / had a child or children
>> with a woman who was settled / allotted at Rosebud.
>>
>> - The B.I.A. may have 'transferred' your ancestor(s) to the Rosebud
>> rolls
>> (which was not unusual in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the rolls
>> were looked on more as a 'census' and less as documentation of tribal
>> entitlement). Sometimes the reservation of a student's 'tribal
>> enrollment' was changed in boarding school, or when an educated Indian
>> went to another reservation to work for the government. Some of the
>> Morrisons in Minnesota / at Red Lake worked as government translators,
>> census enumerators, etc., and so I'd guess that's a not-unlikely
>> possibility.
>>
>> Although most of the people who Wub-e-ke-niew and I worked with at Red
>> Lake are now deceased, a few of them are still alive. It seems fairly
>> likely that there is still someone alive at Rosebud who remembers - from
>> the oral history if not from personal experience - who your ancestors
>> were
>> and how your 'branch' of the Morrisons got to Rosebud... and, in my
>> experience, it's a lot easier to START with the oral history, then use
>> that knowledge as a guide to archival / documentary research [at Red
>> Lake
>> the oral history that certain 'traditional' elders held was impressively
>> accurate]... and giving those elders copies of those census rolls
>> brought
>> back a wealth of remembered history.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Clara
>>
>>
>> On Sat, February 24, 2007 7:08 am, Christian Morrison wrote:
>>> Wow thank you very much for the information. What baffles me is that
>>> we
>>> are
>>> enrolled here on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. But, our roots are Ojibwe.
>>> How
>>> did we come to be Sioux? That is question that I have been trying to
>>> answer. Looking around at the ojibwe.info I found more information
>>> backing
>>> up the fact that we should probably be Ojibwe and not so much Sioux.
>>> Again,
>>> how and where did my family become Sioux? Crazy. Thank you very much
>>> for
>>> your time Clara. I hope I wasn't much of an inconvenience. Just
>>> trying
>>> to
>>> find our family.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Clara [mailto:clara@nerp.net]
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:51 AM
>>> To: Christian Morrison
>>> Cc: tuffy@blackpipeinc.com
>>> Subject: Re: Family
>>>
>>> The information I have is online starting at:
>>> http://www.ojibwe.info/Ojibwe/HTML/people/p00001nv.htm#I1292
>>> and
>>> http://www.ojibwe.info/RedLake/HTML/people/p00000je.htm#I248
>>> [the second - Red Lake - database has more information about
>>> people
>>> enrolled at Red Lake; we compiled the databases mostly in the 1980s
>>> and early 1990s, and had to 'split' them into several parts because
>>> of the limited capacity of the computers we were using then]
>>>
>>> If you click the 'notes for' any person, that link will include (most
>>> of)
>>> the sources of information used for that particular person).
>>>
>>> Clara
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, February 23, 2007 10:14 pm, Christian Morrison wrote:
>>>> My name is Christian "Tuffy" Morrison. I am originally from Norris,
>>>> South
>>>> Dakota. My fathers name is Leroy Baptist Morrison. His fathers name
>>>> was
>>>> James (Jim) Morrison. We are direct descendants of Peter PETOW
>>>> Morrison,
>>>> who was born a child to Joseph AYGOS Morrison and Aygojebenais.
>>>> Joseph
>>>> is
>>>> the son of William Morrison and Meshepeshequay. If you have any
>>>> knowledge
>>>> about my family, please feel free to give me a call on my cell phone
>>>> 605-441-1451 or you can email me at tuffy@blackpipeinc.com. Thank
>>>> you!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christian "Tuffy" Morrison, Chief Information Officer
>>>>
>>>> Rosebud Sioux Tribe
>>>>
>>>> <mailto:redcotel@gwtc.net> redcotel@gwtc.net
>>>>
>>>> www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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