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Mary Jo Estep
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[[File:MaryJoEstep1916.png|thumb|Mary Jo Estep, about five years after surviving the Battle of Kelley Creek; from a 1916 publication.]]
[[File:Charles Ferrel and survivors Battle of Kelley Creek.jpg|thumb|Charles Ferrel and the other three survivors Battle of Kelley Creek]]
'''Mary Josephine Estep''' (1909 or 1910 — 19 November 1992) was a [[Bannock people|Bannock Indian]] child who survived the [[Battle of Kelley Creek]], "the last massacre" of Native Americans in the United States, in 1911.<ref name="Geranios">Nicholas K. Geranios, [https://ift.tt/2sgGMLw "Survivor Returns to Site of Last Indian Massacre"] ''Los Angeles Times'' (September 18, 1988).</ref>
==Early life==
Mary Josephine Estep was born in 1909 or 1910, to Wenega Daggett. Her grandfather was [[Mike Daggett]], called "Shoshone Mike."
She was a little more than a year old when her mother was killed near [[Winnemucca, Nevada]], in February 1911. Shoshone Mike and his sons had killed four white ranchers and taken their horses and cattle. A white posse responded by attacking the twelve Daggetts where they were hiding at Kelley Creek. Four children, including Estep, survived the massacre, and were taken to the jail in Reno for protection. Only Estep was still alive by 1913.<ref name="Geranios" />
==Adoption==
Estep, who was found to have tuberculosis after the massacre, was adopted by Maj. Evan W. Estep and his wife, Rita Garrison Estep. Maj. Estep was the white superintendent of the [[Fort Hall Indian Reservation]] in Idaho.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2IWbtvM of the Little Ones"] ''Missions: American Baptist International Magazine'' (December 1916): 885.</ref> She lived with her adoptive parents in Montana and New Mexico before landing at the [[Yakama Indian Reservation]] in [[Toppenish, Washington]] in 1924, and finally in [[Yakima, Washington]] in 1930, after Evan Estep's retirement.<ref name="Geranios" /> Evan died in 1950, and Rita died in 1955.
==Later life==
Mary Jo Estep studied music and attended [[Central Washington University]]. She was an elementary school music teacher for about forty years, before her retirement in 1974. Mary Jo Estep learned the details of her origins in 1975, when novelist Dayton O. Hyde was researching Mike Daggett's story and sought her out.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2siKpR0 "'It's Unreal', Massacre Survivor Says"] ''Los Angeles Times'' (June 19, 1975): 3. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> She died in 1992, aged about 82 years, in Yakima, after she was given the wrong medication in a nursing home.<ref>Nicholas K. Geranios, [https://ift.tt/2IZ6qLc "Wrong Medication Kills Survivor Of Massacre -- Physician Ordered That No Corrective Measures Be Taken"] ''Seattle Times'' (March 16, 1993).</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2siaQX4 "Indian Who Lived Through Massacre Dies After Slip Up"] ''Arizona Republic'' (March 17, 1993): 3. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
==References==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/2IWbv6S Mary Jo Estep's gravesite], on Find a Grave.
[[Category:1992 deaths]]
[[Category:Shoshone people]]
[[Category:American educators]]
[[File:Charles Ferrel and survivors Battle of Kelley Creek.jpg|thumb|Charles Ferrel and the other three survivors Battle of Kelley Creek]]
'''Mary Josephine Estep''' (1909 or 1910 — 19 November 1992) was a [[Bannock people|Bannock Indian]] child who survived the [[Battle of Kelley Creek]], "the last massacre" of Native Americans in the United States, in 1911.<ref name="Geranios">Nicholas K. Geranios, [https://ift.tt/2sgGMLw "Survivor Returns to Site of Last Indian Massacre"] ''Los Angeles Times'' (September 18, 1988).</ref>
==Early life==
Mary Josephine Estep was born in 1909 or 1910, to Wenega Daggett. Her grandfather was [[Mike Daggett]], called "Shoshone Mike."
She was a little more than a year old when her mother was killed near [[Winnemucca, Nevada]], in February 1911. Shoshone Mike and his sons had killed four white ranchers and taken their horses and cattle. A white posse responded by attacking the twelve Daggetts where they were hiding at Kelley Creek. Four children, including Estep, survived the massacre, and were taken to the jail in Reno for protection. Only Estep was still alive by 1913.<ref name="Geranios" />
==Adoption==
Estep, who was found to have tuberculosis after the massacre, was adopted by Maj. Evan W. Estep and his wife, Rita Garrison Estep. Maj. Estep was the white superintendent of the [[Fort Hall Indian Reservation]] in Idaho.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2IWbtvM of the Little Ones"] ''Missions: American Baptist International Magazine'' (December 1916): 885.</ref> She lived with her adoptive parents in Montana and New Mexico before landing at the [[Yakama Indian Reservation]] in [[Toppenish, Washington]] in 1924, and finally in [[Yakima, Washington]] in 1930, after Evan Estep's retirement.<ref name="Geranios" /> Evan died in 1950, and Rita died in 1955.
==Later life==
Mary Jo Estep studied music and attended [[Central Washington University]]. She was an elementary school music teacher for about forty years, before her retirement in 1974. Mary Jo Estep learned the details of her origins in 1975, when novelist Dayton O. Hyde was researching Mike Daggett's story and sought her out.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2siKpR0 "'It's Unreal', Massacre Survivor Says"] ''Los Angeles Times'' (June 19, 1975): 3. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> She died in 1992, aged about 82 years, in Yakima, after she was given the wrong medication in a nursing home.<ref>Nicholas K. Geranios, [https://ift.tt/2IZ6qLc "Wrong Medication Kills Survivor Of Massacre -- Physician Ordered That No Corrective Measures Be Taken"] ''Seattle Times'' (March 16, 1993).</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2siaQX4 "Indian Who Lived Through Massacre Dies After Slip Up"] ''Arizona Republic'' (March 17, 1993): 3. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
==References==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/2IWbv6S Mary Jo Estep's gravesite], on Find a Grave.
[[Category:1992 deaths]]
[[Category:Shoshone people]]
[[Category:American educators]]
May 30, 2018 at 10:44AM
