Sophia White Cloud (bef. 1844 - aft. 1845)

Born before 1844 in Ioway Tribal Territory

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Biography

Sophia was Iowa Tribe.

Tapatame was given in the Catlin European images as a daughter of White Cloud II. Not stated was her mother. However as Rutonyeweema went on the tour I am placing her here as not just a possible but a likely mother.

Depicted in a George Catlin engraving from 1844, Tapatame (in the image shown in the profile for this entry) is the little girl in the woman's arms first from right. The woman is Strutting Pigeon (Rutonyeweema, presumably her mother.

The Adventures of The Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians, by George Catlin, pub.1852

Below is excerpted from Vol.II, page 13; George Catlin's List of Numbered & Named Ioways for Plate No.9, p.15. Here Catlin names all of "the fourteen Ioway Indians" who arrived in Europe, in the summer of 1844, as part of the original Ioway tour-group -- in addition to these 14 were "their interpreter, Jeffrey Doraway, (a mulatto)" and Mr. Geo. H. C. Melody, in charge of Tour.] [ 3 of these 14 died on tour: #6, No-ho-mun-ya, the Ioway Brave, called "Roman Nose," #11, O-kee-wee-me, wife of Shon-ta-yi-ga, called "Little Wolf," & their infant son #14, Corsair.

Names of the Indians
Men
1. Mew-hew-she-kaw (the white cloud), first chief of the nation.
2. Neu-mon-ya (the walking rain), war-chief.
3. Se-non-ti-yah (the blister feet), the medicine man (or Doctor). [no wife]
4. Wash-ka-mon-ya (the fast dancer). [called "Jim," his wife also with Tour.]
5. Shon-ta-yi-ga (the little wolf). [his wife #11, O-kee-wee-me.]
6. No-ho-mun-ya (one who gives no attention), or Roman Nose. [youngest man - no wife]
7. Wa-ton-ye (the formost man).
8. Wa-ta-we-buck-a-na (commanding general). [a youth]
Women
9. Ru-ton-ye-wee-ma (strutting pigeon), wife of White Cloud.
10. Ru-ton-wee-me (pigeon on the wing).
11. O-kee-wee-me (female bear that walks on the back of another). [wife of #5 Little Wolf]
12. Koon-za-ya-me (female war-eagle sailing).
13. Ta-pa-ta-me (wisdom), girl. [infant held by #9 the wife of White Cloud.]
14. Corsair (pap-poose). [son of O-kee-wee-me & Little Wolf.]

Plate No.9, p.15, these fourteen Ioway Indians are portrayed, shortly after arrival.

Susan K. Suttle-White notes:

"Geo. Catlin's Original List of Numbered Identified Persons (List p.13 for Plate #9 p.15) has been mis-represented by an Altered List of Numbered Names and is displayed in conjunction with sketch Plate No.9, in 'The Ioway Indians,' by Martha Royce Blaine, p. 231. This insertion of the '9. Jeffrey Doraway [Dorion, omitted.]' causes the whole list to be compromised by causing the original persons listed as #9 - #14 to become #10 - #15 which no longer match their correctly numbered images on Catlin's sketch. In particular it leads to mis-identification of images for ALL of the women & two small children. As an example: Correctly, as a family grouped together #11 O-kee-wee-me, wife of #6 Shon-ta-yi-ga as she is standing in front of him, holding their son #14 Corsair; but incorrectly, with the altered list (#11) O-kee-wee-me now mistakenly appears to be 11 Ru-ton-wee-me standing in front of #6 Shon-ta-yi-ga, holding a pap-pose #14 that now mistakenly appears to be #14 Ta-pa-ta-me, but that leaves no #15 (for Corsair) identified on Catlin's sketch."

Susan K. Suttle-White also notes:

"In another of Catlin's engravings of fourteen persons, done a little later for Paris in 1845, and reproduced in 'The Iowa,' by W.H. Miner, Cedar Rapids, The Torch Press, 1911, Shon-ta-yi-ga or Little Wolf's wife O-kee-wee-me is still living but their son Corsair has died and also the Ioway Brave No-ho-mun-ya or Roman Nose has died, and both are missing from this Paris engraving, but two others have been added to the group depicted (also making fourteen persons) and they are 'their interpreter, Jeffrey Doraway, (a mulatto)' and George H.C. Melody, in charge of the Tour. This engraving was used during 1845 on the cover of an important, but rare, pamplet by George Catlin, entitled, 'The Fourteen Ioway Indians.' This engraving is also shown on p.230, 'The Ioway Indians,' by Martha R. Blaine, 1979, 1995."

Sources

• George Catlin's "Fourteen Ioway Indians"
• The Iowa, by William Harvey Miner. A reprint from The Indian Record, as originally published and edited by Thomas Foster, with introduction and elucidations through the text, Cedar Springs, Iowa, Torch Press, 1911. Photocopy of excerpted material courtesy of Susan K. Suttle-White
• The Adventures of The Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians, George Catlin. 1852.
• The Ioway Indians, by Martha Royce Blaine. University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
• Susan Suttle-White