John Smith (Native American)
- John Smith (Native American)
John Smith (died February 6, 1922) also know as or Kay-bah-nung-we-wa (sloughing flesh) or Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce (wrinkle meat) and commonly called "Old Wrinkle Meat" was a Chippewa indian who lived in the Cass Lake (Minnesota) area and is reputed to have died at the age of 137. [ Star Tribune of February 8, 1922 ]
The exact age of John Smith at the time of his death has been a subject of controversy. Federal Commissioner of Indian Enrollment, Ransom J. Powell argued that "it was disease and not age that made him look the way he did" [ cited in Tim Roufs "When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" footnote 34 ] and remarqued that according to records he was only 88 years old. Paul Buffalo who, when a small boy had met John Smith, said he had repeatedly heard the old man state that he was "seven or eight", "eight or nine" and "ten years old" when the "stars fell"]Notes
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* [http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/Buffalo/PB41.html Tim Roufs "When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo]
* [http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/oldnews/archives/22 Obituary of Old John Smith in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis (Feb. 8, 1922)]
Further reading
* Carl A. Zapffe, "Kahbe nagwi wens: The man who lived in 3 Centuries" (Brainerd, MN: Historic Heartland Association, 1975) ISBN 978-0910623001
* John Smith "Chief John Smith, A Leader of the Chippewa, Age 117 Years. His Life as Told by Himself. Being the Life Story of Chief John Smith as Narrated by Himself and Interpreted by His Adopted Son, Thomas E. Smith." (Walker, MN: The Cass County Pioneer, 1921)
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