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Name
  
Frank Linderman

Role
  
Writer

Education
  

Died
  
May 12, 1938, Santa Barbara, California, United States

Books
  
Indian Lodge‑Fire Stories, Pretty‑shield - Medicine Woman o, Blackfeet Indians, Lige Mounts: Free Trap, Indian Old‑man Stories: M

Visions and native wisdom in the writings of frank bird linderman


Frank Bird Linderman (September 25, 1869 – May 12, 1938) was a Montana writer, politician, Native American ally and ethnographer.

Contents

Indian Why Stories: Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire by Frank Bird LINDERMAN | Full Audio Book


Early life

Linderman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the child of James Bird Linderman and Mary Ann Brannan Linderman. He attended schools in Ohio and Illinois, including Oberlin College, before moving to Montana Territory in 1885 at the age of sixteen. Frank Linderman went to the shores of Flathead Lake, there he learned Indian ways and lived as they lived. To know them better he mastered the sign language, a feat which gained him the name Sign-talker, or, sometimes Great Sign-talker.

From 1893 to 1897, he worked in Butte, Montana, then moved to Brandon, Montana. Around 1900, he moved to Sheridan, Montana, where he worked several jobs, as an assayer, furniture salesman, and at a newspaper. He also lived in Sheridan, Demersville (now Kalispell), Helena, and Butte.

Politics

Linderman served in the state Legislature as the representative from Madison County, Montana in 1903 and 1905. He served as Assistant Secretary of State from 1905–07, after moving to the new state capital of Helena in 1905. Through his work, the Rocky Boys Indian Reservation was established by law in 1916.

In 1924, Linderman ran for the United States Senate against incumbent Democratic United States Senator Thomas J. Walsh. He won the Republican primary against Wellington D. Rankin, the Attorney General of Montana, and advanced to the general election, where he lost to Walsh by a wide margin.

Works

  • On a passing frontier (1920)
  • Bunch-grass and Blue-joint (1921)
  • Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire (1915)[www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/606]
  • "Indian Old-man Stories" (1920)
  • How it came about stories (1921)
  • Lige mounts, free trapper (1922)
  • American: The Life Story of a Great Indian - Plenty-coups, Chief of the Crows (1930)
  • Red mother (1932) republished under the title Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows
  • Old Man Coyote (Crow) (1932)
  • Beyond law (1933)
  • Other

    The Frank Bird Linderman House in Lake County, Montana is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

    References

    Frank Bird Linderman Wikipedia


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