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4 unusual facts about Catherine Weldon


Catherine Weldon

After the death of Sitting Bull on 15 December 1890 and the ensuing Massacre of Wounded Knee the following 29 December, for which she was blamed in the press as having agitated the Indians, Catherine Weldon returned to Brooklyn, NY where she would live the remainder of her life.

After her divorce from Schlatter and later also from Weldon, she became committed to the cause of Native Americans, especially the Lakota Indians in the Dakota Territory.

Weldon became confidante and private secretary to Sitting Bull during the time when Plains Indians had adopted the Ghost Dance movement.

The poet and playwright Derek Walcott refers to Weldon and her life in his play The Ghost Dance and in his epic poem Omeros.



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