The Salford Sioux - Manchester's own native American community

[tony h]

Rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today we have had unbelieavable sunshine, snow, hail and rain, And a gorgeous light

Lots of love from Manchester
Tony
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[liverpool annie]

It's a wonderful photo Tony  .... thank you !! 

Well ....  I had to run to the Buffalo Bill Museum as they close at 4  ..... got up there .. I forgot it was Saturday ... so the Historian wasn't there !!

So trailed around the museum .... it's still interesting ........ even if it is a tourist trap !! but I learned something today .... Bill was born in 1846 ....... but his Great Great Great Grandfather Philip Cody ...... moved to America from Jersey in the Channel Islands .... maybe I'm related .... you never know !! 

So I'll try and get up there again next week !!

Annie 

[Mr. MIGKY]

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[Barbara.H]

Black Heart of Whalley Range - isn't that brilliant!

Here's another interesting snippet ..   George Williams aka Charging Thunder found work at Belle Vue Zoo as an animal keeper.
So I went looking through my book on the history of Belle Vue to see if George Williams/Charging Thunder was in it - he wasn't.  But this was:

"In 1947 ... an attraction named 'Frogman Divers' ....operated by 3 demobilised midget submarine divers, one of whom possessed a Victoria Cross, who put on a display in which the public saw the divers getting through a replica of a midget sub's airlock with equipment, to make their way through mock obstruction nets"  [from Looking Back at Belle Vue by Robert Nicholls]

It took me a long time to work out that it was the submarines that were midgets, not the divers  Anyway, the VC holder was Ian Edward Fraser, who was a colleague of James Magennis the Irish VC holder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Edward_Fraser

Is serendipity a posh word for 'wandering off topic'?   

Barbara

[uk2003]

"In 1947 ... an attraction named 'Frogman Divers' ....operated by 3 demobilised midget submarine divers, one of whom possessed a Victoria Cross, who put on a display in which the public saw the divers getting through a replica of a midget sub's airlock with equipment, to make their way through mock obstruction nets"  [from Looking Back at Belle Vue by Robert Nicholls]

It took me a long time to work out that it was the submarines that were midgets, not the divers  Anyway, the VC holder was Ian Edward Fraser, who was a colleague of James Magennis the Irish VC holder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Edward_Fraser

Is serendipity a posh word for 'wandering off topic'?   

Barbara

Anyone fancy his book http://www.rootschat.com/links/0359/

[liverpool annie]

I don't understand what you guys are talking about .... so I'll go here !! 

I found this terrific site Plains Indian Tribes

http://www.franksrealm.com/sivu-indians-tribes.html

and here's a picture of Red Shirt .... 30 - 40 years later .... still a beautiful face !! 

http://www.franksrealm.com/Indians/tribes/Sioux_Lakota/Oglala/pages/oglala-redshirt.htm

[liverpool annie]

Now I do ! 

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9080

Here you go Migky ..... 

Banks " Mediterranean Ocean. 1889" Handwritten (front row): No Neck, Rocky Bear, Black Heart, Georgie [Duffy], [Wm. F.] Cody, Bessie [Farrell], [Annie] Oakley, Red Shirt. Others in back row: Buck Taylor (fifth from right), Johnny Baker (fourth from right), Carter Couturier (?), advertising agent (second from right), Has No Horses (?) (far right)

[Wendi]

Seems Red Shirt never got used to sitting in front of the camera 

"Ogle Luta"  Oh yes 

Wendi 

[Salford Lass]

Don't know if any of you are close to Salford, but this coming Thursday 10th April there is a talk and film presentation being held at Langworthy Cornerstone, Salford.

6-8pm all about the Salford Sioux.

If I can get there I will, but I have prior engagements which I may not be able to get out off.

I am hoping I can, because one of my ancestors supposedley worked his passage back to England from America on one of Bill Coady's ships, and it would be great to find out if there is any documentation to support that.

Debbie