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'''Jerry Lonecloud''' (1854-1980) was an entertainer, [[ethnographer]] and medicine man for the [[Mi'kmaq people]]. He wrote the first Mi'kmaq [[memoir]], which is entitled "Tracking Dr. Lonecloud". Historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead wrote, "Ethnographer of the Micmac nation could rightly have been his epitaph, his final honour."<ref>[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=8249 Canadian Biography On Line]</ref> |
'''Jerry Lonecloud''' (1854-1980) was an entertainer, [[ethnographer]] and medicine man for the [[Mi'kmaq people]]. He wrote the first Mi'kmaq [[memoir]], which is entitled "Tracking Dr. Lonecloud". Historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead wrote, "Ethnographer of the Micmac nation could rightly have been his epitaph, his final honour."<ref>[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=8249 Canadian Biography On Line]</ref> |
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Lonecloud adopted the name "Dr. Lonecloud" during his career with [[Medicine Show|American Medicine Shows]] and [[Wild West Shows]]. As an ethnographer he worked extensively with [[Harry Piers]]. |
Lonecloud adopted the name "Dr. Lonecloud" during his career with [[Medicine Show|American Medicine Shows]] and [[Wild West Shows]] in the 1880s. As an ethnographer he worked extensively with [[Harry Piers]]. |
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He and his family was living at Tuff's Cove in Dartmouth during the [[Halifax Explosion]]. Two f his daughters were killed and he lost an eye. He died in Halifax in 1930. |
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== Legacy == |
== Legacy == |
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Revision as of 11:22, 15 October 2012
Jerry Lonecloud (1854-1980) was an entertainer, ethnographer and medicine man for the Mi'kmaq people. He wrote the first Mi'kmaq memoir, which is entitled "Tracking Dr. Lonecloud". Historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead wrote, "Ethnographer of the Micmac nation could rightly have been his epitaph, his final honour."[1]
Lonecloud adopted the name "Dr. Lonecloud" during his career with American Medicine Shows and Wild West Shows in the 1880s. As an ethnographer he worked extensively with Harry Piers.
He and his family was living at Tuff's Cove in Dartmouth during the Halifax Explosion. Two f his daughters were killed and he lost an eye. He died in Halifax in 1930.
Legacy
- namesake of musical group Lone Cloud
- namesake of Camp Lone Cloud Island
- display in the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History