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Topic: The Salford Sioux - Manchester's own native American community (Read 3391 times)
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liverpool annie
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Thought this was interesting ...... I'd never heard of this before !! 
Visitors to Salford, home of Coronation Street, might muse over street names such as Buffalo Court and Dakota Avenue. They derive from the winter of 1887-88, when the city's back-to-back terraces were augmented by 97 native Americans in teepees, plus 10 elks, 18 buffalo and assorted other livestock. The native Americans had arrived in November 1887 as part of 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World Show'. This spectacle was led by the army scout William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody and included bucking-bronco riding and other acts of derring-do from a 200-strong troupe. They set up tents beside the River Irwell, and in the evenings performed at a nearby venue. Such was the demand that they stayed for five months, becoming part of local life. One native American couple had a baby girl baptised at St Clement's Church. Several of the Salford Sioux had been in the Battle of Little Big Horn, including Nicholas Black Elk, who would later be immortalised in the 1932 bestseller Black Elk Speaks. Black Elk was one of a party left behind in Salford who had to make their own way back to the US.
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Cooper : Muels : Howarth : Every : Price : King Be who you are and say what you feel - because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind ! Dr. Seuss Erect no gravestone .... let the Rose every year bloom for his sake ! Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus, I:5 Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukUS source - US Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/faqgene.txtThe Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
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BarbaraH
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And on BBC north west news archives: there were a few features about it last year :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/features/salford_sioux/
The interview with Charging Thunder's grand daughter (of Gorton  ) is great
Barbara
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LANCS: Holt, Greenwood, Greenhalgh, McGibbon,Threlfall,Fishwick, Berry DERBYS: Goodwin, Grant LANARK & regions: McGibbon, Bryson, Smith, Campbell YORKS: Taylor, Stamford, Fishwick Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Wendi
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Oh Annie what have you started  you have your NYPL chap, I bags the one Dave found 
Anyone read anything by Lucia St. Clair Robson ?
Barbara nice post Gorton & all !!! I'm off to read .........
Wendi
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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Wendi
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Yer but I oh so prefer the more mature one 
Wendi
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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BarbaraH
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Annie!! Behave - Its not past the nine o'clock watershed yet!
Oh wait - it is
Barbara
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LANCS: Holt, Greenwood, Greenhalgh, McGibbon,Threlfall,Fishwick, Berry DERBYS: Goodwin, Grant LANARK & regions: McGibbon, Bryson, Smith, Campbell YORKS: Taylor, Stamford, Fishwick Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Wendi
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Great stuff Gal some time out in the mountains
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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tony h
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tony h
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I love this photo, Wild Bill, and Sioux leaders, shame on you Annie, i sent you this weeks ago cos I though you would love it xxx Anybody who would like an original please PM.
Tony
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