St. Ann's centennial: 100 years of faith, Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, Belcourt, North Dakota, 1885-1985

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library
• Subjects: Canada; Indian; Metis
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/27816

Isabel Poitra and Mary Davis. MICHAEL DAVIS — FLORA ALLERY Michael Davis married Flora Allery. They had seven children: Mary Rose, Mike, Norbert (deceased), Patrick (deceased), Philomene (deceased), Laura, Frank (deceased) and Mary Rose (McGillis). At present Mary Rose is 106 years old. Frank Vondal, Louis LaFountain, William Davis, Alexander Azure. WILLIAM DAVIS - SARAH NOLIN William Davis, born at Red River in 1845, was the oldest son of William Davis and Marie Valle. He married Sarah Nolin who was born in 1855 at Red River. William Sr. was born in 1823 at Red River, son of David Davis (born in Upper Canada in 1773) and Josette (baptismal name) who was born at Pembina in 1790. William Jr.'s mother, Marie Valle was born in 1830 at Red River. They appear on the 1850 Minnesota Territorial Census living in the District of Pembina. When the Red River land was deeded to the U.S. Government in 1863, William and Sarah came with their families to settle in the Sarah Nolin Davis (born 1855), wife of Wm. Davis Jr. (Louis Davis' grandmother). Turtle Mountains, which they had always regarded as their hunting territory. Like most of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, they refused to settle on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota which had been assigned to them. The children of William Davis and Sarah Nolin were: Leander, born in 1869, Sarah, born in 1870, Agatha, born in 1872, Marie Rose, born in 1885 and Maxim, born in 1887, Delia Davis LaFromboise born 1898, Harriet Kinney, born 1894. In 1936 when William was 91 years old a newspaper account by Win V. Working relates that he was going out on the buffalo trail that summer after a lapse of more than 60 years. He would point out the site of a treaty conference in 1859 at which the boundary line between the hunting grounds of the Chippewa mixed-bloods and Sioux was fixed. The meeting took place near Leeds and Davis was believed to be the only person living who attended the conference (he was around 14 years old at the time). He was to point out the site to researchers locating historic spots in the state to be marked. There had been a conference at St. Joe (Walhalla) in 1858, where it was agreed a meeting should take place the next year at Les Isles aux Mort. There was water everywhere in the vicinity of the treaty site. This expanse of water had created islands which had been given their macabre name by the Indians, the title having been translated into French by the traders. . He relates the details as follows: On the first day of the conference the bands rode out and met midway between the camps. They were on horseback and fully armed, ready for battle, if necessary. They rode in parallel lines until they were about 100 feet apart. Then they turned to face each other. There were a few moments of silence as the lines faced each other. A Sioux Chief slowly dismounted, accepted a huge peace pipe of catlinite (pipestone) from a warrior, stepped into the lane between the lines and invited the Metis leader to join him. 314 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.