Friday, August 17, 2018

Indians of Yuba Area

This copy of a handwritten article can be found in the Local History files of the Traverse Area District Library. It is written by Bernice Pulcipher Dean (1895-1974) after her 1948 marriage and describes Native people she knew in the early 1900s.

Names mentioned are Old Pete Shenomquet, his sister Old Angeline, Angeline's daughter (Young Angeline), Jim Skippergosh (husband of Young Angeline), Blind Maggie, Whiskey Mary, Jim Bemis, Jim's son Amos Bemis, Ben Peshaba and Albert Southbird.






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