Alex Nąinekiga Lonetree (abt. 1867)

Died [date unknown] in Wisconsin, United States

Alex Lonetree was a Native American and member of the Ho-Chunk tribe.

Biography

Birth

Alex was born about 1867.

Name

The 1919 census gives his clan name as NaHeNeKeKah, which is a phonetic rendering of Nąinekiga, from ną, "tree, wood"; ineki, "alone", and -ga, a definite article suffix used in personal names. This is an Upper Moiety name. As his great-great-granddaughter Amy Lonetree said, "His Ho-Chunk name has become our family surname." (van Schaick, 20)

Sources

• 1917 Indian census; Roll: M595_168; Page: 39; Line: 16; Agency: Grand Rapids. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M595, 692 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• 1919 Indian census; Roll: M595_168; Page: 36; Line: 16; Agency: Grand Rapids. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M595, 692 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• Tom Jones, Michael Schmudlach, Matthew Daniel Mason, Amy Lonetree, and George A. Greendeer, People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942 (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011).

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