James Blackeye

James was a Chippewa (Red Lake band) man

Biography
James was born in 1902 in Minnesota to parents Wain Je Mah Dub Iuayke and his wife As Sin E Wah Beak

James was admitted to the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians on February 23, 1920, at the age of 19, and diagnosed as epileptic with limited mentality. Within 9 months of his admission, he had suffered 313 recorded seizures. (Seizures can cause a sudden loss of consciousness, body stiffening, and shaking. They sometimes cause people to lose control of their bladder or to bite their tongue. They may last for several minutes. Tonic-clonic seizures also may start as focal seizures that then spread to involve most or all of the brain.)

He died on May 4, 1922, and was buried in the "Hiawatha" Asylum Cemetery tier 2 plot 53 according to the L.L. Culp letter dated February 17, 1934.

The June 1920 asylum male census erroneously lists him as Simon Blackeye (a younger brother). There is no evidence that Simon was ever a patient inmate at the Canton Asylum. James was NOT on the asylum 1922 male census confirming his death as before June 30, 1922.

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

Research Notes

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Sources

1903 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQB-3GD7 : Fri Oct 06 07:43:21 UTC 2023), Entry for As Sin Ewub Eke, 1903, pg. 25/461, census of the Red Lake Chippewa, Leech Lake Agency, MInnesota

1910 Apr 23-25 - "United States Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2L6-613 : Wed Oct 04 06:14:54 UTC 2023), Entry for Wainjemahdub Iuayke and Assinewahbeak Iuayke, 1910, pg, 597/1341, lines 28-37, census of the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Red Lake, Beltrami, Minnesota, United States (James is 8, father and mother identified)

1913 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGK9-FZWM : Fri Oct 06 22:09:25 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, pg. 86/841, line 1360-1365, census of the Red Lake and Pambina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1914 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7J6Z-9DPZ : Thu Oct 05 08:30:38 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, pg. 176/541, line 1390-1395, census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1915 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7J8P-QQ3Z : Thu Oct 05 03:53:19 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, pg. 263/541, line 1402-1406, census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake agency, Minn.

1916 Jul 11 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7J8J-R83Z : Fri Oct 06 18:18:53 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, pg. 353/541, line 1420-1424, census Roll of the Red Lake Chippewa, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1917 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7JNK-MNZM : Fri Oct 06 10:57:02 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, 1917, pg. 363/541, line 57-60, census of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1919 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7JXL-JST2 : Tue Oct 03 15:39:11 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, 1919, pg. 451/541, line 52-55, census of the Red Lake and Pambina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1920 Feb - Staff, Writer, editor. “James Blackeye Left for Canton S.D. on February 21.” Red Lake News, 1 Feb. 1920, pp. 4.

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWTY-FP5 : accessed 31 March 2020), James Black Eye in household of Julea Black Eye, Redlake, Beltrami, Minnesota, United States; citing ED 79, sheet 7B, line 90, family 151, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 823; FHL microfilm 1,820,823, census of the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Beltrami County, Minnesota

1920 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGRH-84S6 : Fri Oct 06 00:50:31 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, pg. 11/545, line 56, census of the Chippewa, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1921 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2T-XDRF : Fri Oct 06 05:29:07 UTC 2023), Entry for James , Blackeye, pg. 107/545, line 55-58, census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1921 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:688C-J46F : Thu Oct 05 19:14:30 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, 1921, pg. 508/522, line 1, male census Jun 30 1921 Canton Insane Asylum

1922 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7PRC-FKMM : Fri Oct 06 19:52:09 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye, 1922, pg. 268/545, line 46-49, census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn. (Date of death May 4, 1922)

1922 May 4 - "South Dakota, Grave Registration Records, 1940-1941", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CYRJ-SLT2 : Tue Oct 03 20:58:30 UTC 2023), Entry for James Blackeye.

1922 May 6(?) - Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14493896/james-blackeye: accessed 14 December 2023), memorial page for James Blackeye (1902–6 May 1922), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14493896, citing Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery, Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Graveaddiction (contributor 46528400). (Note: James died May 4, not May 6)

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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