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War of Busted Eggs (in Dakota & English) with Demus McDonald

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Interview · North Dakota · Demus McDonald · NDNAEU 2

Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Culture & continuity, Food & plants

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Learn About questions

Where did the Dakota people migrate from and to during the 1800s? Why were the warriors in this story hungry? What had changed for the Dakota people that limited the amount of food they had access to? How did the taking of eggs lead to the Dakota Uprising in Minnesota?

Learn From questions

What do I know about the migration of my ancestors? How did I end up living where I live today? Were there times in my family’s history where they had to move due to negative reasons? What do I know about those stories? Am I a member of a group of people that has faced persecution in the past?  How has that shaped who I am today?

Transcripts

War of Busted Eggs (in Dakota) with Demus Mcdonald NDNAEU 2

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War of Busted Eggs (in English) with Demus Mcdonald NDNAEU 2

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Yeah I wasn’t always just old my grandson she said long ago I was a little girl I had a mother I had her grandma I had a grandpa and they told me stories for me to pass down so now I’m telling you for you to pass down she said and tell the story of well her grandpa his name was CRO P he was the warrior the court the word when they were still in law Minnesota and her grandpa see how Opie’s that means shot in the foot because he was shot in the foot by an arrow when they went to war against the ship was and he was born in 1825 I did research on st.Paul Historical Society and yeah he was I don’t know how old he was when war broke out but my grandma’s dad his name was John black shield hwa-jung kassapa and I think he was born in 1852 when they were when they were still in Minnesota but after they came here in 1867 Oh 1876 I think he was 17 years old when he went with red he’s our chief it wasn’t Little Crow it was a different chief that he came around here he asked for volunteers they went to join Sitting Bull and my grandma’s dad he was only 17 the Scarlet tip or something like that info duta that was that chief’s name I think you’ve heard of Barbies in history it Peduto but he was a chief he had he had a lot of Dakotas with him and then when you look in the area around Little Bighorn it has the campsite a hump up over all the way in the East End was the UH the assistant see seat one that was equal to tireless Dakotas so that they were part of that too and when that was over they went with Sitting Bull to Canada and they worked their way back they came back this way same width off the Little Crow anyway he was he was going back to Minnesota when someone recognized him and now they killed him there was a pony on him they cut his head off put it on the stick and he brought it to st.Paul around there man kiddo that’s where that the Kota people lived around Mankato there and that’s where that war broke out and my grandma they were talking they said with Gaga hoo-ha oke cheese with Gaza a kahoka means busted egg oke cheese is a war so the war was eggs and what that meant was when the war broke out these divorce Warriors they went to a farmhouse and they were hungry day after farmers fear could spare anything to eat and he took his gun and he kicked them off his porch told him to leave so they got as far as a chicken coop and one of them went he was gathering eggs then they’re gonna eat him raw or some anyway they came out and that farmer seen them stealing eggs so he started shooting at them and he missed them but time person there was truly eggs those eggs at him the day they open fire and they killed him and his family and that’s where that war start over broken eggs stealing aids and busting him that’s why they call it wait Gaga hookah or kitchen and they’re not too many people here know about that but up around sue Valley where there’s a lot of elders they know that what the world Minnesota uprising was called busted eggs war so that’s the story I heard from grandma and then now seventh graders are learning North Dakota history learned about them Sibley selenium battle of white stone Hill and killed and they were that war started in Minnesota so I was looking at that man I thought this is the broken egg war I thought I don’t know about this Indian side Indian version so those are things that I was taught and I still remember to this day and my grandma is to say Takata in each AHA gotcha in the future when you grow up you see orphan

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