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Bill: Who started this Peyote?
Grandma: Oh,
John Wilson, Moonhead they call.
Bill: Moonhead.
Grandma: He started, uh,
Caddo, half ….
Bill: John Logan?
Grandma: Uh huh, half
Delaware, his mother Delaware, I
guess. So, he start it, come down there too Wilson, down
there at the, Reed (Wilson’s) father (1), he (Moonhead)
come down there first to eat, teach him down there
awhile, and then, and they want to know, my, uh, my
father (Tallchief-Louis Angel) want him to come(2).
He (Moonhead) hear it and say “Yeah, he can come”. He
used to drink all time. So, he come after that, and Mary
(3), she’s about eight month old when he come (1898),
and, and they, they come up there in their, their squaw
wagon. So, uh, he, he fixing for, uh, go in that, they
build tent and where they go in there (Quapaw Creek,
Skiatook).
And Osage come, Claremore, oh, Claremore and, uh, some
old people there, Black Dog and Claremore they come, so
they went in there. John Logan, they went in there, eat
medicine, and uh ….
Bill: Any Shawnees or Creeks?
Grandma: Huh?
Bill: Any Shawnees or Creeks?
Grandma: Huh?
Irene: He says was there any Shawnee or Creek Indian,
then, took that?
Grandma: Uh, huh, ya.
Irene: Was there?
Grandma: They don’t eat that then.
Irene: No, they don’t.
Grandma: Just Osage eating it, then. So, uh, so they
learn that, eating it, so Quapaw call, uh, they know,
they come, they eat too. Four, have meeting four time,
but they quit that. They went back (to Quapaw), and my
father he want his tent down there, Quapaw, so, he had
teepee made down at Quapaw. Where they’re dancing now,
right along there somewhere (east of present dance
grounds), and that’s all, and Quapaw that’s all, Osage
that’s all they eating then, they, that days and
Delaware.
(1) Ice Wilson’s place just west of Quapaw Creek near
present day town of Skiatook, Oklahoma.
(2) To his place just east of Quapaw Creek near present
day town of Skiatook, Oklahoma.
(3) (Mary Thompson-Williams, Mary Maude “Grandma”
Supernaw’s oldest daughter. |
