Princess Angeline

Kikisoblu (* 1820, † May 31 1896 ), usually known as Princess Angeline, said in the coastal Salish dialect of Lushootseed also Kick -is- om -lo or Wewick. She was the eldest daughter of the chief of the Suquamish on Bainbridge Iceland, Chief Seattle, of the Duwamish nevertheless was considered, because his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief. Kikisoblus mother's name was La - Dalia and came from the village Tola'ltu, which lay in what is now West Seattle.

The most later Rainier Beach beach called born in present-day Seattle Kikisoblu was named " Angeline " by the second wife of a pioneer settlement, considered the founder of Seattle. "Doc Maynard's " wife, Catherine Broshears Maynard (1816-1906), the Indian name Kikisoblu was too horrible for such a beautiful woman.

Kikisoblu had before the arrival of the first white settlers Dokub Cud married, which was, however, soon died.

As with the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, the statement was issued to the Indians to move into their reserves, Kikisoblu - Angeline refused and remained in Seattle. She lived in a hut on the Western Avenue between Pike Street and Pine Street to the point where there is the Pike Place Market today. There she sold handmade blankets and ran a laundry. In 1866, her father died in the Suquamish Reservation. Later she moved into the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop.

In addition to the Friends of Maynards she won more friends, like Henry L. Yesler (1810-1892), the owner of the first sawmill Seattle, next to which she was buried at his own request after her death. But you made ​​the overt and covert racism hard to create. The lowest were the children who followed her in droves and they taunted, and by which they occasionally threw stones. But Kikisoblu in time became a symbol for the survival of Native American culture. After 1890 they built a new house with the support of their friends.

She met Edward Curtis know who photographed them often, and you, in his own words, for each image was a dollar. She was there as well, which inspired him to study with the Indians, who filled his creative life.

Kikisoblu died on 29 May 1896. It was laid out as a Catholic in the Catholic Church and were buried by a large procession to the Lakeview Cemetery, the cemetery on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The last service was held for them in the Church of Our Lady of Good Help, they rested in a catafalque in the shape of a canoe.

2001 an anonymous donor bequeathed the Burke Museum, a portrait and a bust of the Indian woman, who had been, precisely, not seen since 1909 since the Alaska - Yukon - Pacific Exposition, the first World's Fair Seattle. The portrait must have been made before 1904, when it appeared on the occasion of an art exhibition at the Women's Century Club. It comes from Alma Royer Lorraine, an Indian woman from Ohio, it has probably created on the basis of a photograph.

Film

• Sandra Osawa: Princess Angeline, 42 minutes Upstream Productions.