Chief Bacon Rind (Wah-she-hah in the Osage language) was chief of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. They had been displaced from Missouri in the early 1800's.
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The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
Wednesday Morning, March 30, 1932
Bacon Rind Rites Today
Traditional Feast and Ceremony for Osage Leader.
Pawhuska, Okla., March 29 (AP) - Hundreds of Osage Indians feasted in the Indian village in traditional fashion here tonight while a score of hired mourners wailed at the bier of their aged leader, Bacon Rind.
The painted faces of the mourners and their tribal garb formed a weird background in the living room of Bacon Rind's modern home, where his body lay in state under shaded electric lights.
Tomorrow, following instructions he gave weeks ago, tribesmen will bear him through native and Christian ceremonies to an Indian grave high on a hilltop overlooking Pawhuska and the Osage reservation.
Catholic services will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, of which Bacon Rind was a member, at 10 a.m.
Bacon Rind died yesterday of cancer and pneumonia, and his death was regarded by his tribesmen as a calamity. For 25 years he had been their voice before the Indian bureau at Washington.
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The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
Thursday Morning, March 31, 1932
Bacon Rind Rites Unique
Hired Mourners Wail, Priest Prays for Indian Chief.
Pawhuska, Okla., March 30. (AP) - The wailing of hired mourners mingled with the prayers of a Catholic priest as Bacon Rind, aged Osage Indian leader, was buried beside his father on a rocky hilltop near here today. A cortege four miles long followed the hearse to the Indian burial ground.
When the coffin was opened at the grave, the Osages filed past, each Indian laying his hands on the clasped hands of the departed chief, whose face had been painted by the medicine man. Then they raised their hands, spread the fingers and looked toward the sun. It was part of the tribal ritual.
Food and water were placed in the grave, "Just like flowers on white man's grave," an Osage explained.
[Both courtesy of Bailey]
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Plot numbers correspond to the plat map as recorded in the canvass and survey from the American Indian Institute; "Our People And Where They Rest," (OPAWTR) James W. Tyner, Maxine Tyner and Alice Tyner Timmons, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 1971 (Library of Congress No. QE99-C5-T97) Volume 2, p. 67. [A public University that received taxpayer dollars for the program/product; thus it is presumed to be in the public domain]
Their information (including any diagrams or maps) is given here as a historical reference and is presented "as is." Their book, like many such cemetery listing compilations, may contain errors. As with any genealogy information, this is merely a "source" and should be considered as such. It falls upon the end-user to verify the accuracy. See their map for use as a quick locator tool for graves here. The set of books are available at many Oklahoma libraries. Once freely available for online viewing, the OPAWTR volumes can now be accessed only at a LDS Family History Library, a partner library, or a Family History Center. (LDS) In August of 2021, I was informed that the set is now available on the Family Search website, but you have to be a member, and be signed in, to access it under "Books."
Keep in mind that this survey was done around 1969-70, and based on a visual assessment. Thousands of important historical records are lost to today's researchers due to the fact that there are those who won't put them up on such sites as FAG - unless the marker can be found today; ignoring the fact that tornadoes, theft or removal, vandalism, damage from unrestrained farm animals, desecration due to agricultural development/usage/abuse and other such factors, (including re-internment at a different cemetery) may well have intervened over the years, and the marker the entry relied upon may indeed not be found today. Nevertheless, the value of submitting this memorial as a historical record is relevant and important to those who are tracing their ancestry.∼MEMORIAL. Chief of the Osage.∼Chief of the Osage. Wah-she-nah. Memorial burial, "In fond memory of Chief Bacon Rind"
01 FEB 2023 Listed in the National Archives; in Osage tribal records; in Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs and in numerous scholarly works and records with last name styled as BACON RIND. (Anglicization) Has also been seen as Baconrind and BaconRind. The best I can determine is that the official spelling is BACON RIND. [Keeping in mind that he most likely used his Native American name most of the time] Rendering of the surname on various grave markers is no guarantee that such was "official" or correct, and may not have been a typographical, conceptual or scrivener's error.
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The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
Wednesday Morning, March 30, 1932
Bacon Rind Rites Today
Traditional Feast and Ceremony for Osage Leader.
Pawhuska, Okla., March 29 (AP) - Hundreds of Osage Indians feasted in the Indian village in traditional fashion here tonight while a score of hired mourners wailed at the bier of their aged leader, Bacon Rind.
The painted faces of the mourners and their tribal garb formed a weird background in the living room of Bacon Rind's modern home, where his body lay in state under shaded electric lights.
Tomorrow, following instructions he gave weeks ago, tribesmen will bear him through native and Christian ceremonies to an Indian grave high on a hilltop overlooking Pawhuska and the Osage reservation.
Catholic services will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, of which Bacon Rind was a member, at 10 a.m.
Bacon Rind died yesterday of cancer and pneumonia, and his death was regarded by his tribesmen as a calamity. For 25 years he had been their voice before the Indian bureau at Washington.
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The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
Thursday Morning, March 31, 1932
Bacon Rind Rites Unique
Hired Mourners Wail, Priest Prays for Indian Chief.
Pawhuska, Okla., March 30. (AP) - The wailing of hired mourners mingled with the prayers of a Catholic priest as Bacon Rind, aged Osage Indian leader, was buried beside his father on a rocky hilltop near here today. A cortege four miles long followed the hearse to the Indian burial ground.
When the coffin was opened at the grave, the Osages filed past, each Indian laying his hands on the clasped hands of the departed chief, whose face had been painted by the medicine man. Then they raised their hands, spread the fingers and looked toward the sun. It was part of the tribal ritual.
Food and water were placed in the grave, "Just like flowers on white man's grave," an Osage explained.
[Both courtesy of Bailey]
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Plot numbers correspond to the plat map as recorded in the canvass and survey from the American Indian Institute; "Our People And Where They Rest," (OPAWTR) James W. Tyner, Maxine Tyner and Alice Tyner Timmons, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 1971 (Library of Congress No. QE99-C5-T97) Volume 2, p. 67. [A public University that received taxpayer dollars for the program/product; thus it is presumed to be in the public domain]
Their information (including any diagrams or maps) is given here as a historical reference and is presented "as is." Their book, like many such cemetery listing compilations, may contain errors. As with any genealogy information, this is merely a "source" and should be considered as such. It falls upon the end-user to verify the accuracy. See their map for use as a quick locator tool for graves here. The set of books are available at many Oklahoma libraries. Once freely available for online viewing, the OPAWTR volumes can now be accessed only at a LDS Family History Library, a partner library, or a Family History Center. (LDS) In August of 2021, I was informed that the set is now available on the Family Search website, but you have to be a member, and be signed in, to access it under "Books."
Keep in mind that this survey was done around 1969-70, and based on a visual assessment. Thousands of important historical records are lost to today's researchers due to the fact that there are those who won't put them up on such sites as FAG - unless the marker can be found today; ignoring the fact that tornadoes, theft or removal, vandalism, damage from unrestrained farm animals, desecration due to agricultural development/usage/abuse and other such factors, (including re-internment at a different cemetery) may well have intervened over the years, and the marker the entry relied upon may indeed not be found today. Nevertheless, the value of submitting this memorial as a historical record is relevant and important to those who are tracing their ancestry.∼MEMORIAL. Chief of the Osage.∼Chief of the Osage. Wah-she-nah. Memorial burial, "In fond memory of Chief Bacon Rind"
01 FEB 2023 Listed in the National Archives; in Osage tribal records; in Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs and in numerous scholarly works and records with last name styled as BACON RIND. (Anglicization) Has also been seen as Baconrind and BaconRind. The best I can determine is that the official spelling is BACON RIND. [Keeping in mind that he most likely used his Native American name most of the time] Rendering of the surname on various grave markers is no guarantee that such was "official" or correct, and may not have been a typographical, conceptual or scrivener's error.
Chief Bacon Rind (Wah-she-hah in the Osage language) was chief of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. They had been displaced from Missouri in the early 1800's.
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The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
Wednesday Morning, March 30, 1932
Bacon Rind Rites Today
Traditional Feast and Ceremony for Osage Leader.
Pawhuska, Okla., March 29 (AP) - Hundreds of Osage Indians feasted in the Indian village in traditional fashion here tonight while a score of hired mourners wailed at the bier of their aged leader, Bacon Rind.
The painted faces of the mourners and their tribal garb formed a weird background in the living room of Bacon Rind's modern home, where his body lay in state under shaded electric lights.
Tomorrow, following instructions he gave weeks ago, tribesmen will bear him through native and Christian ceremonies to an Indian grave high on a hilltop overlooking Pawhuska and the Osage reservation.
Catholic services will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, of which Bacon Rind was a member, at 10 a.m.
Bacon Rind died yesterday of cancer and pneumonia, and his death was regarded by his tribesmen as a calamity. For 25 years he had been their voice before the Indian bureau at Washington.
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#2
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
Thursday Morning, March 31, 1932
Bacon Rind Rites Unique
Hired Mourners Wail, Priest Prays for Indian Chief.
Pawhuska, Okla., March 30. (AP) - The wailing of hired mourners mingled with the prayers of a Catholic priest as Bacon Rind, aged Osage Indian leader, was buried beside his father on a rocky hilltop near here today. A cortege four miles long followed the hearse to the Indian burial ground.
When the coffin was opened at the grave, the Osages filed past, each Indian laying his hands on the clasped hands of the departed chief, whose face had been painted by the medicine man. Then they raised their hands, spread the fingers and looked toward the sun. It was part of the tribal ritual.
Food and water were placed in the grave, "Just like flowers on white man's grave," an Osage explained.
[Both courtesy of Bailey]
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Plot numbers correspond to the plat map as recorded in the canvass and survey from the American Indian Institute; "Our People And Where They Rest," (OPAWTR) James W. Tyner, Maxine Tyner and Alice Tyner Timmons, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 1971 (Library of Congress No. QE99-C5-T97) Volume 2, p. 67. [A public University that received taxpayer dollars for the program/product; thus it is presumed to be in the public domain]
Their information (including any diagrams or maps) is given here as a historical reference and is presented "as is." Their book, like many such cemetery listing compilations, may contain errors. As with any genealogy information, this is merely a "source" and should be considered as such. It falls upon the end-user to verify the accuracy. See their map for use as a quick locator tool for graves here. The set of books are available at many Oklahoma libraries. Once freely available for online viewing, the OPAWTR volumes can now be accessed only at a LDS Family History Library, a partner library, or a Family History Center. (LDS) In August of 2021, I was informed that the set is now available on the Family Search website, but you have to be a member, and be signed in, to access it under "Books."
Keep in mind that this survey was done around 1969-70, and based on a visual assessment. Thousands of important historical records are lost to today's researchers due to the fact that there are those who won't put them up on such sites as FAG - unless the marker can be found today; ignoring the fact that tornadoes, theft or removal, vandalism, damage from unrestrained farm animals, desecration due to agricultural development/usage/abuse and other such factors, (including re-internment at a different cemetery) may well have intervened over the years, and the marker the entry relied upon may indeed not be found today. Nevertheless, the value of submitting this memorial as a historical record is relevant and important to those who are tracing their ancestry.∼MEMORIAL. Chief of the Osage.∼Chief of the Osage. Wah-she-nah. Memorial burial, "In fond memory of Chief Bacon Rind"
01 FEB 2023 Listed in the National Archives; in Osage tribal records; in Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs and in numerous scholarly works and records with last name styled as BACON RIND. (Anglicization) Has also been seen as Baconrind and BaconRind. The best I can determine is that the official spelling is BACON RIND. [Keeping in mind that he most likely used his Native American name most of the time] Rendering of the surname on various grave markers is no guarantee that such was "official" or correct, and may not have been a typographical, conceptual or scrivener's error.
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The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
Wednesday Morning, March 30, 1932
Bacon Rind Rites Today
Traditional Feast and Ceremony for Osage Leader.
Pawhuska, Okla., March 29 (AP) - Hundreds of Osage Indians feasted in the Indian village in traditional fashion here tonight while a score of hired mourners wailed at the bier of their aged leader, Bacon Rind.
The painted faces of the mourners and their tribal garb formed a weird background in the living room of Bacon Rind's modern home, where his body lay in state under shaded electric lights.
Tomorrow, following instructions he gave weeks ago, tribesmen will bear him through native and Christian ceremonies to an Indian grave high on a hilltop overlooking Pawhuska and the Osage reservation.
Catholic services will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, of which Bacon Rind was a member, at 10 a.m.
Bacon Rind died yesterday of cancer and pneumonia, and his death was regarded by his tribesmen as a calamity. For 25 years he had been their voice before the Indian bureau at Washington.
================
#2
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
Thursday Morning, March 31, 1932
Bacon Rind Rites Unique
Hired Mourners Wail, Priest Prays for Indian Chief.
Pawhuska, Okla., March 30. (AP) - The wailing of hired mourners mingled with the prayers of a Catholic priest as Bacon Rind, aged Osage Indian leader, was buried beside his father on a rocky hilltop near here today. A cortege four miles long followed the hearse to the Indian burial ground.
When the coffin was opened at the grave, the Osages filed past, each Indian laying his hands on the clasped hands of the departed chief, whose face had been painted by the medicine man. Then they raised their hands, spread the fingers and looked toward the sun. It was part of the tribal ritual.
Food and water were placed in the grave, "Just like flowers on white man's grave," an Osage explained.
[Both courtesy of Bailey]
-------------------------
Plot numbers correspond to the plat map as recorded in the canvass and survey from the American Indian Institute; "Our People And Where They Rest," (OPAWTR) James W. Tyner, Maxine Tyner and Alice Tyner Timmons, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 1971 (Library of Congress No. QE99-C5-T97) Volume 2, p. 67. [A public University that received taxpayer dollars for the program/product; thus it is presumed to be in the public domain]
Their information (including any diagrams or maps) is given here as a historical reference and is presented "as is." Their book, like many such cemetery listing compilations, may contain errors. As with any genealogy information, this is merely a "source" and should be considered as such. It falls upon the end-user to verify the accuracy. See their map for use as a quick locator tool for graves here. The set of books are available at many Oklahoma libraries. Once freely available for online viewing, the OPAWTR volumes can now be accessed only at a LDS Family History Library, a partner library, or a Family History Center. (LDS) In August of 2021, I was informed that the set is now available on the Family Search website, but you have to be a member, and be signed in, to access it under "Books."
Keep in mind that this survey was done around 1969-70, and based on a visual assessment. Thousands of important historical records are lost to today's researchers due to the fact that there are those who won't put them up on such sites as FAG - unless the marker can be found today; ignoring the fact that tornadoes, theft or removal, vandalism, damage from unrestrained farm animals, desecration due to agricultural development/usage/abuse and other such factors, (including re-internment at a different cemetery) may well have intervened over the years, and the marker the entry relied upon may indeed not be found today. Nevertheless, the value of submitting this memorial as a historical record is relevant and important to those who are tracing their ancestry.∼MEMORIAL. Chief of the Osage.∼Chief of the Osage. Wah-she-nah. Memorial burial, "In fond memory of Chief Bacon Rind"
01 FEB 2023 Listed in the National Archives; in Osage tribal records; in Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs and in numerous scholarly works and records with last name styled as BACON RIND. (Anglicization) Has also been seen as Baconrind and BaconRind. The best I can determine is that the official spelling is BACON RIND. [Keeping in mind that he most likely used his Native American name most of the time] Rendering of the surname on various grave markers is no guarantee that such was "official" or correct, and may not have been a typographical, conceptual or scrivener's error.
Inscription
In Fond Memory of Chief Bacon Rind
