{"id":12323,"date":"2011-02-27T04:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T04:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12323"},"modified":"2011-02-27T04:32:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T04:32:29","slug":"mienguns-children-tales-from-a-mixed-race-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12323","title":{"rendered":"Miengun’s Children: Tales from a Mixed-Race Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miengun’s Children: Tales from a Mixed-Race Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mrs. Jessie W. Hilton of Albuquerque, N.M., who summers at her cottage Mi-en-gun Walszh (Wolf’s Den) in Northport, was hostess at 5:00 o’clock Wednesday at Schuler’s of this city honoring Mrs. C. Stuker of Oak Park, III., house guest of her sister, Mrs. Basil Milliken of Oklahoma City, Okla., summer resident at Northport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Traverse City [Michigan] Record Eagle, July 7, 1954<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies<\/a>
\nVolume 29, Numbers 2\/3, Intermarriage and North American Indians<\/a> (2008)
\npp. 146-185
\nDOI: 10.1353\/fro.0.0016<\/a><\/p>\n

Susan E. Gray<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nArizona State University<\/em><\/p>\n

At the time of this gathering of summer society in a northern Michigan<\/a> resort town, Jessie Milton was eighty-nine years old. For more than fifty years, she had been a summer resident of Northport, on the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula<\/a>, north and west of Traverse City<\/a>, leaving her home in Oklahoma City<\/a> every June and returning from Michigan in October, events noted in the society pages of newspapers in both places. The only break in this pattern occurred in 1947, when she moved from Oklahoma City to her daughter’s house in Albuquerque<\/a>, from which she continued to commute each summer to the Leelanau. Despite Jessie’s social standing, however, her annual pilgrimages differed from most sojourns of the genteel and well-heeled to northern Michigan. Twice divorced, she was long accustomed to supporting herself, and she ran a shop in Northport during the summer tourist season, selling Indian handicrafts and pies that she made from the cherries for which the Traverse region is famous. The silverwork for sale at the “Cherry Buttery” came from New Mexico<\/a>, but the sweet grass and split ash baskets were the work of local Odawa<\/a> and Ojibwe<\/a> people, some of whom Hilton had known far longer than she had been summering on the Leelanau. Indeed, the annual arrival of Jessie Hilton, society matron and purveyor of Indian handicrafts, at the Wolf’s Den signaled the complexity and fluidity of a mixed-race identity that she, like her twelve brothers and sisters, had spent a lifetime negotiating.<\/p>\n

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Miengun’s Children: Tales from a Mixed-Race Family Mrs. Jessie W. Hilton of Albuquerque, N.M., who summers at her cottage Mi-en-gun Walszh (Wolf’s Den) in Northport, was hostess at 5:00 o’clock Wednesday at Schuler’s of this city honoring Mrs. C. Stuker of Oak Park, III., house guest of her sister, Mrs. Basil Milliken of Oklahoma City, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,3015],"tags":[1214,5536,5537],"class_list":["post-12323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-frontiers-a-journal-of-women-studies","tag-susan-e-gray","tag-susan-gray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}