Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in height and 8 inches in width.
Language: English
Coverage: Unknown
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The caption reads:
"Anthony Beaman (Chief Running Bull) in his later years was given the title of Medicine Man of the Shinnecock Pow Wow Council. He was a conservative Indian who was very much against the intermarriage between his people and the Negro race. He did not hate anyone but wished to see the Shinnecock strain remain as much Indian as was possible. He himself, married Eliza Beaman (Princess Occum), a member of the Montauk tribe from the Freetown Band of Montauks in East Hampton, and he was one of the few Shinnecocks who had any contact with the neighboring Montauks at all. Indians from other tribes were always welcome in his home. He loved to talk with other Indians about tribal affairs, and about the reservation as he remembered it when he was a boy.
Unfortunately, a man that held his viewpoints was not popular among the majority of the members of the tribe. So much of the knowledge that he had of weather lore, hunting, trapping, farming and his vast knowledge of tribal herbals, was virtually unknown to other members of the tribe. When engaged in conversation concerning things that were close to the Indian heart, Running Bull was a storehouse of knowledge.
When I remember him, I recall that in all of my visits to his home, I never saw younger members of the tribe visit he or his wife. The result was, that since I was always interested in traditional matters, he always found me a willing and avid listener.
His untimely passing meant that another conservative member of the tribe had gone to join his forefathers in the land of the hereafter."
