Hąhemąnįwįga (Night Walking Woman) Russell (abt. 1855)

Born about 1855 in Wisconsin, United States

Wife of Jacob Russell — married about 1910 (to 1916) in Nebraska, United States

Died [date unknown] in Winnebago Indian Reservation, Thurston, Nebraska, United States [uncertain]

Hąhemąnįwįga was Ho-Chunk.

Biography

Birth

Hąhemąnįwįga was born about 1855 (1914, 1917 censuses), in Wisconsin, where her parents had been born. (1910 Fed. census)

Name

"Night Walking Woman" is an attested name in the Bear Clan. The Hocąk is Hąhemąnįwįga, from hąhe, "night, darkness"; mąnį, "to walk, she walks"; -wį-, a feminine gender infix; and -ga, a definite article suffix used in personal names. Her name may also be translated, as Radin does, as "She Who Walks in Darkness." (Radin)

Sources

• "The Bear Clan Feast. Part I, The Origin Legend," in Paul Radin, Winnebago Notebooks, Winnebago III, #7, Freeman #3868 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society) 1-6. For the English text, see Paul Radin, The Winnebago Tribe (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990 [1923]) 184-186. Informant: a member of the Bear Clan. In this collection, entitled "Bear Clan Origins, Version 7."
• Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910; Census Place: Winnebago, Thurston, Nebraska; Roll: T624_857; Page: 27A; Enumeration District: 0207; FHL microfilm: 1374870 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• 1913 Indian census; Roll: M595_664; Line: 20; Agency: Winnebago. 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.
• 1914 Indian census; Roll: M595_664; Line: 13; Agency: Winnebago. 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.
• 1915 Indian census; Roll: M595_665; Line: 17; Agency: Winnebago. 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.
• 1916 Indian census; Roll: M595_665; Line: 21; Agency: Winnebago. 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.
• 1917 Indian census; Roll: M595_665; Page: 62; Line: 16; Agency: Winnebago. 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.