Kikisoblu

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"Princess Angeline", photographed by Edward Curtis , 1896

Kikisoblu (* approx. 1820 - May 31, 1896 ), usually called Princess Angeline , was also called Kick-is-om-lo or Wewick in the coastal Salish dialect of the Lushootseed . She was the eldest daughter of the chief of the Suquamish on Bainbridge Island , Chief Seattle , who was still considered Duwamish because his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief. Kikisoblu's mother was called La-Dalia and came from the village of Tola'ltu in what is now West Seattle.

Kikisoblu, who was born on what is later known as Rainier Beach in today's Seattle , got her name "Angeline" from the second wife of a settlement pioneer who is considered the founder of Seattle. “ Doc Maynard's ” wife, Catherine Broshears Maynard (1816–1906), found the Indian name Kikisoblu too hideous for such a beautiful woman.

Before the arrival of the first white settlers, Kikisoblu had married Dokub Cud, who soon passed away.

Postcard from 1910 showing Kikisoblue outside their shop. The photo was taken in 1896 at the latest.

When, with the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, the Indians were ordered to move to their reservations , Kikisoblu-Angeline refused and stayed in Seattle. She lived in a cabin on Western Avenue between Pike Street and Pine Street, where Pike Place Market is now. There she sold handmade blankets and ran a laundry. In 1866 her father died on the Suquamish Reservation . She later moved into the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop .

A basket that Kikisoblu gave to the Yesler family ( Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center, Seattle )

In addition to friends of the Maynards, she made other friends, such as Henry L. Yesler (1810-1892), the owner of Seattle's first sawmill, next to which she was buried at her own request after her death. But the open and covert racism made her difficult. Least of all were the children who followed her in droves and raised her, and at whom she occasionally threw stones. However, over time, Kikisoblu became a symbol of the continued existence of Indian culture. After 1890 she built a new house with the support of her friends.

She met Edward Curtis , who photographed her frequently and, according to himself, gave her a dollar for each picture . But it was also what stimulated him to occupy himself with the Indians , which filled his artistic work for a lifetime.

Kikisoblu died on May 31, 1896. She was laid out as a Catholic in the Catholic Church and, after a large procession, was buried in Lake View Cemetery , the cemetery on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The last service took place for her in the Church of Our Lady of Good Help , she herself rested in a catafalk in the shape of a canoe.

In 2001 an anonymous donor bequeathed a portrait and a bust of the Indian woman to the Burke Museum , which had not been seen since 1909, more precisely since the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition , Seattle's first world exhibition. The portrait must have been made before 1904 when it appeared at an art exhibition at the Women's Century Club . It comes from Alma Royer Lorraine , an Indian woman from Ohio who probably created it from a photograph.

Movie

  • Sandra Osawa: Princess Angeline , 42 minutes, Upstream Productions.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ 1811 is written on her tombstone.
  2. ↑ Junius Rochester: Maynard, Dr. David Swinson (1808-1873) , HistoryLink.org, February 23, 2004
  3. ^ Paula Becker: Maynard, Catherine Broshears (1816-1906), Seattle Pioneer , HistoryLink.org, March 3, 2004
  4. ↑ A picture of Kikisoblu in front of her hut can be found here .
  5. ↑ A picture of the previously existing hut can be found here , archive.org, December 20, 2009.
  6. ↑ Your tombstone can be found here .
personal data
SURNAME Kikisoblu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Princess Angeline; Kick-is-om-lo; Wewick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION eldest daughter of the Suquamish chief on Bainbridge Island
DATE OF BIRTH around 1820
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1896