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The Long Journeys Home
A Driftless Connecticut Series Book
This book is a 2018 selection in the Driftless Connecticut Series, for an outstanding book in any field on a Connecticut topic or written by a Connecticut author.
NICK BELLANTONI
The Long Journeys Home
The Repatriations of Henry ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown CT 06459
© 2018 Nicholas F. Bellantoni
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the
Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund
at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bellantoni, Nicholas F., author.
Title: The Long Journeys Home : The Repatriations of Henry Opukahaia and Albert Afraid of Hawk / by Nick Bellantoni.
Description: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2018. | Series: Garnet books | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017048410 (print) | LCCN 2018010232 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819576859 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819576842 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Obookiah, Henry, 1792-1818—Death and burial. | Afraid-of-Hawk, Albert, 1879-1900—Death and burial. | Human remains (Archaeology)—Repatriation—United States—Case studies. | Cultural property—Repatriation—United States—Case studies.
Classification: LCC CC79.5.H85 (ebook) | LCC CC79.5.H85 B45 2018 (print) | DDC 930.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048410
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Cover illustrations:
Top: Frontispiece Portrait of Henry Obookiah, engraving, Daggett, Hinman & Co., from Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, A Native of Owyhee and a Member of the Foreign Mission School (New York: American Tract Society, n.d., [1832]).
Bottom: Albert Afraid of Hawk, Ogallala Sioux taken in Omaha 1899, Heyn and Matzen, photographers. (Courtesy of Denver Public Library, X-31510.) Background: Historical maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection.
To four extraordinary womenwho have inspired me and this book
Deborah Li‘ikapeka Lee,7th generation cousin descendant of Henry ‘Opūkaha‘ia
Marlis Afraid of Hawk,grandniece of Albert Afraid of Hawk
my mother, Carmella
and
my wife, Angela
Contents
PART I. The Repatriation of Henry ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia
1 “Oh, how I want to see Owhyhee” 3
2 “I have neither a father nor a mother…but, He” 32
PART II. The Repatriation of Albert Afraid of Hawk
6 “His spirit has been lifted” 143
8 “Home is where he belongs” 214
Illustrations
‘Ōpūkaha‘ia’s Cornwall Cemetery burial monument. 19
“Obookiah” engraving on title page, Memoirs of Henry Obookiah. 48
Wooden coffin lid of Henry Obookiah. 54
Foreign Mission School, ca. 1873. 60
Tomb of Henry Obookiah, Cornwall Center Cemetery, CT. 63
Frontispiece Portrait of Obookiah, 1818. 89
Frontispiece Portrait of Henry Obookiah, 1832. 89
Deborah Li‘ikapeka Lee speaks at the Farewell Service for Henry Obookiah. 93
Final Resting Place of Henry ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia. 102
Albert Afraid of Hawk, three-quarter length portrait, 1899. 109
Author consulting with Marlis and Daniel Jay Afraid of Hawk. 129
Sham Battle, American Indian Congress, 1899. 146
Albert Afraid of Hawk, Sept. 18, 1899. 148
Albert Afraid of Hawk, Ogallala Sioux,