Emma Rose Sansaver

  General Notes:

Serena,
> > Linda Peavy checking in...Ursula Smith and I have been working since
> > 1997 on a book based on the experiences of the Fort Shaw (Montana)
> > Government Indian Boarding School's 1904 girls' "basket ball" team, a
> team
> > made up of girls from several different tribes, with three members of
> Metis
> > heritage.
> >
> > The team's "mascot" was Gertrude LaRance, a delightful woman who
> passed
> > away around 1991 but shared with the granddaughter of another team
member,
> > Emma Rose Sansaver, memories of the team's trips to schools and colleges
> > around Montana, their summer at the St. Louis World's Fair (where they
> were
> > named "Basket Ball" Champions), and their trip to the Lewis & Clark
> > Exposition in Portland in 1905.
> >
> > Gertie LaRance may well be related to your LaRance line. She grew
up
> > around Choteau, Montana, and she married Guy Parker (Cheyenne, I
believe),
> a
> > fellow student at Fort Shaw. We've talked to her daughter (who lives in
> the
> > Lame Deer area) and we understand there are other Parker-LaRance
> descendants
> > still living in Montana and elsewhere (including, I think, one
descendant
> in
> > Alaska).
> >
> > Might you have any further information on the LaRance family's
Montana
> > connections?
> >
> > And, finally, I notice Preston has Jacobs and LaRance
ancestors...and
> > those folks may be related to Gertie LaRance and therefore might be
> > particularly interested in the story of the Fort Shaw girls' basketball
> > team.
> >
> > I've been meaning to post questions on the team members we know to
> have
> > Metis ties but wanted to wait til I'd been receiving the postings for
long
> > enough to see how the system works! I've followed all the postings with
> > great interest, and I think that this is a tremendous network you have
> > going, one that should help many with enrollments...and with
reconnecting
> > with family history.
> >
> > Thanks to you, Serena, and to any others who might be able to offer
> > suggestions and/or assistance in our search for more about the families
> and
> > early lives of the Metis members of the championship Fort Shaw team.
> >
> > Those of you who have access to MONTANA THE MAGAZINE OF WESTERN
> HISTORY
> > might enjoy reading our article about the team in the winter 2001
> (December
> > 2001) issue of that journal.
> >
> > Incidentally, do any of you know whether you have ties with other
> Native
> > American young people who attended the government's Model Indian School
at
> > the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904?
> >
> > linda
> >
> > Linda Peav

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