Antone

Antone was a Papago (Tohono Oʼodham) man

Biography:
Antone, born c. 1871 (based on the calculation of death in 1912 at age 41) was a Papago Indian with unknown parents.

According to Carla Joinson in her book Vanished in Hiawatha, Antone was admitted to the Canton Asylum on July 29, 1905, and diagnosed with chronic dementia (Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life.), later revised in 1910 to dementia praecox, hebephrenia (Dementia praecox is a former psychiatric diagnosis for a chronic psychotic disorder that usually begins in late teens or early adulthood. The term translates to "premature dementia" or "precocious madness". Hebephrenia was an 'idiopathic incurable dementia whose onset is in adolescence', and became the core of dementia praecox).

On February 17, 1934, Dr. L.L. Culp wrote to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and advised that Antone had been admitted from the Sells Agency, Arizona, had died at the Canton Asylum on April 4, 1912, and had been buried in the Canton Hiawatha Cemetery in tier 4 plot 28. Presumably, this information is from Asylum records.

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

Research Notes:
-No specific information is found of his life before becoming a patient inmate at the Canton Asylum on July 29, 1905.
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Sources:

1910 May 13 - Thirteenth Census of the United States, pg. xx, line 23 (Inmate, age 39 from Sacaton, AZ), census of the United States Indian Insane Asylum, Canton Township, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1910 Oct 12 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=675, line 55, Table 7 Form of mental disease of those admitted since opening of Asylum

1910 Oct 12 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=677, line 23, Table 8 Form of mental disease of those in Asylum, June 30, 1910, revised

1912 Apr 4 - Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14493867/antone-unknown: accessed April 22, 2024), memorial page for Antone Unknown (unknown–4 Apr 1912), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14493867, citing Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery, Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Graveaddiction (contributor 46528400).

1912 Apr 4 - 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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