Sac and Fox Nation

And now we find ourselves at October 21st.

In 1911, Sac and Fox football star Jim Thorpe helps Carlisle hand Pittsburgh a 17-0 defeat at Forbes Field, ending Pitt's run of 11 straight games without allowing a point.

Thorpe turns an onside kick into a 50-yard touchdown in the victory.

Thorpe is emerging as one of the biggest names in college football as Carlisle produces one of the strongest road wins of its season.

Then outside of Uncle Monday, we also have Chief Black Hawk, and he represents and helps with strength, protection, loyalty, compassion, resistance under white supremacy, knowledge, wisdom, spiritual warfare.

And his offerings look like soul food, Native American foods, water, rum, tobacco, Black Hawk figurines, weapons, um, a red, white, black candle, his book, bones, mojo bags, that's medicine bags, and support his tribe, so the Sauk Nation, by buying things from them and putting it on your altar.

Chief Black Hawk is also a part of Southern Plains hoodoo as well because, like I was telling y'all, um, with Southern Plains hoodoo has indigenous roots, so does Louisiana hoodoo and voodoo.

Another popular Louisiana s- saint, this isn't just saying that only these people in this region can work with these spirits.

You know, you'll see a sign that says you're now entering Seminole County.

You'll see a sign that says you're now entering Pottawatomie Nation or you're now leaving the Sac and Fox Nation.

Oh,

so they do have like...

October 8th opens in 1922 with three Indian all-stars sharing the same piece of football history.

Joe Guyon, White Earth Chippewa, Elmer Busch, Pomo, and their player coach, Jim Thorpe, Sac and Fox, are all part of the Orang Indians' 20 to six victory over the Columbus Panhandles in Marion, Ohio, the first NFL victory in Orang franchise history.

Guyon rushes 13 times for 116 yards and two touchdowns, including a 55-yard scoring run.

Teammate Eagle Feather adds 109 rushing yards, making Guyon and Eagle Feather the first known teammates in NFL history to each rush for 100 yards in the same game.

Then, on October 1st, professional football gives us a major native sports milestone.

In 1922, Sac and Fox legend Jim Thorpe leads the all-native Ourang Indians onto the field for their first NFL game.

Thorpe serves as both player and coach.

Dayton wins 36-0, but the score is not why the day matters.

Deputations from these tribes were invited to visit this city.

Deputations from the Winnebagos, who had been occasional partakers in the warlike phrase, from the Sioux and the Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi, and the Iowas, were called hither at the same time.

In the two principal objects, the conciliation of the hostile Sioux and Sacs and Foxes, and the adjustment of the conflicting titles to the land claimed by the latter and the Iowas, the efforts of the government were unsuccessful.

But the extinguishment of the title of the Sioux east of the Mississippi and that of the Sacs and Foxes to a large tract west of their session in 1832, and the removal of the Winnebagos to the neutral ground line between these two tribes, effected in the negotiations held with them while here, will contribute materially to prevent future collisions.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1837 By the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Document No. 2 Report of the Superintendent of Wisconsin Territory First, the condition and resources of the several tribes of Indians residing within the superintendency of the territory of Wisconsin.

The Sac and Fox Indians occupy a large extent of country on the Des Moines and Iowa rivers and their tributaries, not surpassed as to the fertility of its soil by any lands in the United States.

This country is represented to be well watered, interspersed with prairie and woodland, generally level and well adapted to agricultural purposes.

And our next guest is Anna Smist.

Anna is from the Sac and Fox Nation of the Deer Clan and writes on contemporary North American indigenous art and artists with work appearing in First American's Art Magazine and Art Focus.

And she is currently based in Oklahoma City.

And Anna, thank you for joining us here on the coffee table to talk about Story Knife.