Amos 'Nakpo' Brown Ears

Amos was a Lakota Sioux man (Oglala Tribe)

Biography:
Born to Oglala Sioux parents named Horace Nakpo Brown Ears Gi and his wife Emma (NN), probably on the Pine Ridge Reservation in July 1891.

Amos was admitted to the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians on January 15, 1913, when he was age 22, and diagnosed with hemiplegia with epilepsy (Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy syndrome is a rare clinical syndrome that involves: sudden, prolonged, and unilateral convulsive seizures, epilepsy during infancy or early childhood.

Amos died at the Canton Asylum on May 1, 1921. He was buried in the Hiawatha cemetery at the Canton Asylum in plot 2 tier 49 according to the February 17, 1934 letter from Dr. L.L. Culp following the asylum closing in December 1933.

His profile is part of the The Canton Asylum One Place Study.

Research Notes:
-age 30 in the 1920 census = b. 1890

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Sources:

1898 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:662H-GQKF : Thu Oct 05 06:30:37 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown Ears, 1898, pg. 468/659, line 4659-4663 (Father Horace aka Nakpo Gi 32, Mother Emma Nakpo Gi 26, Amos Nakpo Gi 6, Mable Nakpo Gi 2/11, James Nakpo Gi 2-1/2), census of the Medicine Root District, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota

1899 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:662D-7SJ2 : Thu Oct 05 21:05:44 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown Ears, 1899, pg. 614/659, line 4629-4632, census of the Medicine Root District, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota

1900 Jun 30 - "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSTX-D4J : Fri Oct 06 03:38:19 UTC 2023), Entry for Horace Brown Ears and Emma Brown Ears, 1900, pg. 292/649, line 21-25, census of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

1913 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7Y1X-2JT2 : Fri Oct 06 17:19:56 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown-Ears, pg. 102/808, line 4252-4256, census of the Pine Ridge Reservation

1915 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7YTZ-V7W2 : Fri Oct 06 02:56:46 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown Ears, pg. 499/808, line 4194, census of the Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.

1915 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7YYJ-PBW2 : Fri Oct 06 11:28:15 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown Ears, pg. 288/808, line 4162, census of the Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.

1918 Jun 30"United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3Y-329R : Wed Oct 04 21:01:39 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown Ears, pg. 148/698, line 5375, census of the Oglala Indians, Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

1918 Sep 12 - "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6Z6-67J : 24 December 2021), Amos Brown Ears, 1917-1918, pg. 1104/1143, annotated as Insane by Harry Hummer CMD stamped by the Local Board of the County of Lincoln, State of South Dakota, Canton S.B.

1919 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7XTC-MZT2 : Tue Oct 03 00:10:28 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown Ears, 1919, pg. 378/698, line 3433, census of the Oglala Sioux Indians of the Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

1920 Jan 30 - "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6J7-FXP : Sat Dec 23 09:40:24 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown Ears, 1920, pg. 651/1130, line 26, age 30, census of the Asylum for Indians (by Harry Hummer), Canton Township, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1920 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7FML-V4MM : Wed Oct 04 15:56:41 UTC 2023), Entry for Amos Brown Ears, 1920, pg. 605/698, line 4284 b. 1892, census of the Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14493883/amos-brown: accessed 29 December 2023), memorial page for Amos Brown (unknown–1 May 1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14493883, citing Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery, Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Graveaddiction (contributor 46528400).
Curator Note: Amos Brown is Amos Brown Ears according to the date of death, not to be confused with two other patient inmates at Canton named Brown.

Hilton, M. (Ed.). (2023, July 10). Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians Historical Marker. Historical Marker. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=183486 Photo by Ruth VanSteenwyk, July 10, 2023, courtesy of HMdb.org

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