EP 110 - Grant And Boan

So today I am talking about number one, one, two, three, four, Elizabeth Levita Grant.

This isn't a particularly wild crime, again, because this was like kind of a kind of a Finale, kind of not.

Anthony, of course, will have a stunning story in terms of like all the crazy things that happen.

But she does have some interesting stuff about her.

So sources today are her inmate file from the Idaho State Archives, newspapers.com records, ancestry.com records, EBSCO research page on Chief Whitebird.

Information about Chief Whitebird from lapway.org.

Pages on the Nez Perce War of 1877 from the National Park Service website.

Farragut Naval Training Station by Darby Pierce from intermountainhistories.org. A page titled Idaho Legacy, Farragut, Idaho from the Idaho Military Museum at museum.mil.idaho.gov. An article titled Midway Momentum and Manpower, the Navy's Bureau of Personnel in World War II by MC1 Mark D. Farum.

The Farragut Naval Training Station by Bob Gunter at what I think is the blog at sandpoint.com.

The Idaho Population Census Data from census.gov. TB Incidents and Mortality Chart from CDC.gov. An article titled Idaho Broadens Ban on Interracial Marriage, March 1, 1921, found on Equal Justice Initiative, which is EJI.org. Loving v. Virginia at supreme.justia.com.

The 14th Amendment Explanation at the Constitution Annotated website, constitution.congress.gov. And then quick information from Wikipedia and its sources about the Farragut Naval Training Center, David Farragut, Farragut State Park, and anti-miscegenation laws in the United States.

So Elizabeth Levita Grant was born Elizabeth Whitebird on May 1st, 1922 in Lapway, Idaho on the Nez Perce Reservation.

She was the youngest of three kids born to James Whitebird and Bertha Powakee Whitebird.

They're both members of the Nez Perce tribe.

Elizabeth's oldest sibling was 12 years older than her and her middle sibling was 10 years older.

So she's quite a bit younger.

And according to newspaper reports, her paternal grandfather was a famous and influential chief of the Nez Perce.

named Chief Whitebird.

Sometimes his name is translated as white goose or white pelican, but it does seem like white bird is a name that we're actually, I think, familiar with.

It is up in the northern part of the area.

Isn't there a white bird Idaho, I think, somewhere? So Starting in 1855, you know, we've kind of talked a lot about the Nez Perce War.

So just to kind of give you, again, a quick overview and talk more specifically about how Whitebird is involved.

So starting in 1855, the territorial governor of the Oregon Territory, which at this point, what is now the state of Idaho, is still kind of part of this, met with representatives from several tribes, including the Nez Perce or the Nimiipuu.

The native tribes negotiated the ceding of millions of acres to tribal lands to the territorial governments, but they were able to retain hunting and fishing rights in their traditional places.

And then, as we know, once gold is discovered within the boundaries of the reservation, the U.S. government calls for another treaty council, and then this shrinks the reservation that they were first given by about 90%.