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; Spence; Edith; Flint; Minot; Loren; Mouse River; assiniboine; Beaver Creek
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/27883

Ernie Hogue, July 1937. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Hogue came to Belcourt in the early 1920's. Mr. Hogue was a partner in the Belcourt Mercantile business with Napoleon Masse. He was postmaster of the Belcourt Postoffice in the 1940's. Their children are Arthur, Agnes, Davis and Marcus Hogue. Mr. Hogue is deceased. ERNIE HOGUE Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Hogue came to Belcourt in the early 1920s. Mr. Hogue was a partner in the Belcourt Mercantile Business with Mr. Napoleon Masse. He was postmaster of the Belcourt postoffice in the 1940s. Their children are Arthur, Agnes, Doris, and Marcus Hogue. Mr. Hogue is deceased. Norman and Marlene (Wilkie) Jay Family. Children: Lance, Jada and Loren. NORMAN JAY Norman son of Lloyd and Edith Jay married Marlene Wilkie daughter of Joseph N. and Agnes Wilkie in 1970 they moved to St. John from Rolla in 1972 and live by Lake Upsilon. Marlene works at the Rolla Jewel Bearing Plant, and Norman farms and works on road construction. Their children are Lance, 13; Lome, 12; and Jada eight years old. FRANCOIS JEANNOTTE Francois Jeannotte was born in 1806 on the Mouse River, eight miles west of the present city of Bottineau at a place called by the Indians "Edge of the Woods." His mother was a Chippewa of the Turtle Mountain Band and her Indian name was Assiwenotok. His father was a French Canadian named Jutras Jeannotte from Montreal, and had been many years in the country west of the Red River both in Canada and the United States. He had many adventures with the war parties of tribes hostile to the Chippewas. On one occasion many years before his marriage to Assiwenotok he was descending the Qu'Appelle River with a load of furs, accompanied by his first wife and his son, when they were attacked by a party of Grosventres. His son was killed and his wife was scalped and left for dead. He himself fell into the water, badly wounded, and as he struggled to save himself from drowning a Grosventres warrior attacked him with his flint-lock musket as a club. Jeannotte was able to pull himself out of the water by clinging to the musket and then wrenching it from the Grosventres. He killed him with it. Francois at the age of seven lived on Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Assiniboine, and here his twin sister was waylaid by a party of Grosventres and left lying where she was afterward found, still alive but scalped and having 14 wounds. At this time the Grosventre Indians had a village at the junction of the South Antlers and the Mouse River, and the two sons of the war chief were White Cow Buffalo Robe and Four Bears. In 1818 he accompanied his mother to the Pembina River (his father having returned to Montreal), and during the next two winters they stayed at the Big Salt and the Little Salt Rivers, as the Hudson's Bay Company had a trading post near by with "Arrelles" as post trader and Burke as clerk. At this time also there were two trading posts at the mouth of the Pembina River-one established by the North West Fur Company in charge of McDonald with Grant as clerk and the other operated by the Hudson's Bay Company at about the same spot where Kittson's fort was afterward built. Francois remembers distinctly the Selkirk settlement with the mixture of Swiss, German, Italian and Orkney Island men and the Seven Oaks Massacre. In 1820 Francois and his mother returned to the Mouse River and wintered at the big bend of the river. During the winter of 1820-21 it was reported that a Chippewa war party that went into the foothills of the Rockies found an American trading post a few miles southeast of the present city of Minot established by traders from the Little Missouri and in charge of "Gravelle" with the half breed Keplin (Kiplin) as interpreter. In 1822, he met a traveling civil engineer from Europe at the junction of the South Antlers and the Mouse in Company with two halfbreeds, Jack Spence and Jack Anderson. At this time the Grosventres had abandoned the place for a good 381 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.