Natawista Iksina

Natawista Iksina (c. 1825 in Alberta, Canada – March 1893 in Stand Off, Alberta, Canada), also spelled Natawista Iksana, Natoyist-Siksina', or Natúyi-tsíxina, was a Kainah interpreter and diplomat.^[1] Her name was alternately translated "Medicine Snake Woman"[1] or "Holy Snake."

She was married to Alexander Culbertson, chief trader of Fort Union. Natawista and Culbertson were first married in Fort Union in 1840, when Natawista was 15 years old and Culbertson was 30 years old. They later participated in a Roman Catholic marriage ceremony in 1858 in Peoria, Illinois.^[2]

References

^ Mary E. Virginia. "Natawista". In Carole A. Barrett; Harvey Markowitz (eds.). American Indian Biographies. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. pp. 336–337.
^ Schemm, Mildred Walker (January 1952). "The Major's Lady: Natawista". The Montana Magazine of History. 2 (1): 6.

Sources

Agonito, Joseph. Brave hearts : Indian women of the Plains. Guilford, Connecticut: TwoDot press. ISBN 9781493019052. OCLC 942839131.
Barbour, Barton H. (2001). Fort Union and the upper Missouri fur trade (Red River Books ed.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806134984. OCLC 55064790.
Wischmann, Lesley. (2004). Frontier diplomats : Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina' among the Blackfeet. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806136073. OCLC 53289877.

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[1] Mary E. Virginia. "Natawista". In Carole A. Barrett; Harvey Markowitz (eds.). American Indian Biographies. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. pp. 336–337.

[2] Schemm, Mildred Walker (January 1952). "The Major's Lady: Natawista". The Montana Magazine of History. 2 (1): 6.

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