Frank Bird Linderman (September 25, 1869 – May 12, 1938) was a Montana writer, politician, Native American ally and ethnographer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he went West as a young man and became enamored of life on the Montana frontier. While working as a trapper for several years, he lived with the Salish and Blackfeet tribes, learning their cultures. He later became an advocate for them and for other northern Plains Indians . He wrote about their cultures and worked to help them survive pressure from European Americans. For instance, he supported establishment of the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in 1916 in Montana for landless Ojibwe (Chippewa) and Cree , and continued as an advocate for Native Americans to his death.
31-482: Morning Light may refer to: Books [ edit ] Morning Light , a 1930 novel by Frank Bird Linderman Morning Light: The Islanders in the Days of Oak and Hemp , 1946 book by H. M. Tomlinson Morning Light , a 1976 book by French Catholic writer Jean Sulivan , winner of Prix Bretagne Morning Light , a 1998 book of poetry by Lee Harwood Morning Light ,
62-540: A 1916 painting by Australian artist Elioth Gruner 'Morning Light', a cultivar of the grass Miscanthus sinensis See also [ edit ] In the Morning Light (disambiguation) Operation Morning Light , an effort to recover radioactive material from the Russian satellite Kosmos 954 Bewegung Morgenlicht (German for Dawn Movement or Morning Light Movement), a German militant, pretending to be
93-504: A 1933 letter to the reform-minded John Collier , head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs , he wrote, 'these indians are real workers, and if encouraged and helped will prove to the doubters that the red man has a future even in the white man’s scheme of things.' They needed more land to be successful, he believed, to prove themselves." Linderman corresponded with Collier for the rest of his life. He encouraged Collier's reforms, including stopping
124-455: A 1977 EP by Rabbitt "Morning Light", a song by Girls from the 2009 album Album "Morning Light", a song by Eskimo Joe from the 2009 album Inshalla "Morning Light", a song by Ida Maria from the 2008 album Fortress Round My Heart "Morning Light", a song by Woods from the 2016 album City Sun Eater in the River of Light "Morning Light (feat. Na Na)", a song by E-type from
155-404: A 2005 album by St. Louis Jesuits Morning Light , a 2015 album by Ivory Hours Morning Light , a 2019 album by Dayna Manning Songs [ edit ] "Morning Light", a song by Lou Brown "Morning Light", a song by Jerry Ragovoy performed by Louis Jordan "Morning Light", a song by Sparkadia single from their 2008 debut album Postcards "Morning Light", title song of
186-473: A 2008 novel by Catherine Anderson Music [ edit ] The Morning Light , an American band, or their self-titled album Albums [ edit ] Morning Light , a 1989 album by Debbie McClendon Morning Light , a 1997 album by Mark Van Hoen Morning Light: Songs To Awaken the Dawn , a 1999 album by Steve Green Morning Light , a 2003 album by Ananda Project Morning Light ,
217-803: A fur trapper, then an assayer, and later an agent for Guardian Insurance of America. He owned a hotel for two years. For another two years, he published a newspaper, the Sheridan Chinook. He served two terms in the Montana Legislature and campaigned for a seat in Congress. He published his first collection of Native American tribal stories in 1915 and wrote twenty more books over the next two decades. He wrote to share what he knew about Native American cultures and to preserve their traditional stories. His friend Charles Marion Russell , noted painter, illustrated many of these books. Linderman
248-473: A group, active in 2009–10 Ha-Boker Or ( The Morning Light ), a Hebrew periodical published by Avrom Ber Gotlober Clipper Morning Light , a former name of the Boeing 747-121 aircraft on Pan Am Flight 103 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Morning Light . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
279-582: A letter to his father, Linderman blamed his loss on the "fad" of woman suffrage. In 1924 , Linderman ran for popular election to the United States Senate against well-known incumbent Democratic United States Senator Thomas J. Walsh . The Democrat had first been elected by the state legislature in 1912, which was then the practice, and re-elected in 1918 by popular vote. Linderman won the Republican primary against Wellington D. Rankin ,
310-528: A real-life crew training and competing in the 44th Transpacific Yacht Race aboard a TP52 class sailing yacht , Morning Light . Morning Light is a documentary that follows the youngest crew (by average age) to compete in the Transpac. All crew members were between 18 and 23 at the time. The film follows the formation of the Morning Light sailing team, their six months of training in advance of
341-633: A reservation for the Chippewa band. Thanks largely to Linderman's advocacy, Congress established the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation in Montana in 1916. For years afterward, Linderman "continued to press politicians and Indian service bureaucrats for better rations, permission for the Indians to practice traditional dances, such as the forbidden sun dance, and for an expansion of the reservation. In
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#1732787530542372-573: A sailing ship acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War Morning Light , name of the training vessel in the documentary film of the same name SS Morning Light (1941) , a cargo liner in service 1969-73 Other uses [ edit ] Morning Light (film) , a 2008 sailing documentary film directed by Mark Monroe and released on Walt Disney Pictures. Morning Light (Gruner) ,
403-557: A small part of that, I shall die contented." He wrote six books of Native American legends, an autobiography, a collection of frontier stories, six novels, three animal stories, and a collection of reminiscences about his friend and artist Charles Marion Russell. His most important works, however, were biographies of Pretty Shield and Plenty Coups . He interviewed them in sign language over the course of several weeks. He shaped his notes into books that he presented as autobiographies. Anthropologists and ethnologists noted that Linderman shaped
434-624: A week of selection trials in Long Beach, California . Training began in Honolulu, Hawaii in January 2007, for two weeks at a time through late June, with time off in May. The team trained aboard the Morning Light , which Disney purchased from software executive Philippe Kahn . Filming coincided with training and the race itself, which started July 15, 2007 and concluded ten days later. The film
465-475: The Attorney General of Montana , and advanced to the general election. Walsh defeated Linderman by a wide margin to keep his Senate seat. Linderman continued to be fascinated by Native Americans. He advocated on behalf of the landless Chippewa and Cree in Montana, who struggled to survive. He supported Native Americans as the real Americans, while believing there was a place for Anglo-Americans in
496-596: The Salish (also known as Flathead) and Kootenai tribes. He set up camp on their territory on the shores of Flathead Lake , where he learned their ways and lived as they did. To know them better and communicated for trading, he mastered Plains Indian sign language , and he became known by the Crow as "Sign-talker", or, sometimes Great Sign-talker. The Blackfeet called him Iron Tooth, the Kootenai knew him as Bird-Singer, and
527-521: The 1998 album Last Man Standing "Morning Light", a theme song for the BBC TV programme Gardeners' World "Morning Light", a song by Phil Keaggy from the 1982 album Play thru Me "Morning Light", a song by Inusa Dawuda "Morning Light", a song by Skinny "Morning Light", a 2013 single by Nu:Logic "A Morning Light", a song by John Zorn and performed by the Gnostic Trio from
558-559: The 2013 album In Lambeth "Morning Light", a song by Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys from his 2018 album Man of the Woods "Morning Light", a song by Doja Cat from the 2018 album Amala Tunes [ edit ] "Morning Light", a hymn tune composed by George James Webb Ships [ edit ] Morning Light (ship) , a wooden sailing ship launched in 1856 and wrecked in 1889 USS Morning Light (1853) ,
589-835: The Cree and Chippewa called him Glasses or Sings-like-a-bird. In 1891 he met his future wife, Minnie Jane Johns, in Demersville (now Kalispell ). He knew he needed steady work in order to marry, and in 1892 he left his trapping career and started working as a watchman at the Curlew Mine in Ravalli County . Stearne Blake, part owner of the mine, asked him to take over bookkeeping and to assay silver and lead ore. Linderman promptly ordered books and taught himself to do these jobs. He and Minnie married in Missoula in 1893. After
620-536: The Curlew Mine closed, Linderman moved with his family in 1893 to Butte where he worked as chief assayer and chemist for the Butte & Boston Smelter. Two daughters were born to the Lindermans while they lived in Butte. He complained about the brutality of the city, saying that it was overrun with rough immigrants from Europe. He worked there until 1897, moving in 1898 to Brandon, Montana, where their third daughter
651-485: The West. Believing that native peoples should be protected, he became an advocate with the government for Chief Rocky Boy , who had a Chippewa band and was seeking to gain a reservation. He recognized that they had been originally assigned to land that was infertile and unsuitable for farming. Linderman used his network of prominent whites, including other politicians and painter Charles M. Russell , to lobby Congress to set up
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#1732787530542682-465: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morning_Light&oldid=1154431107 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Ship disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Frank Bird Linderman Linderman worked at various jobs throughout his life: as
713-404: The narratives in significant ways. However, anthropologist Robert Lowie acknowledged that Linderman's work contains useful information about Crow life. Morning Light (film) Morning Light is a 2008 film written and directed by Mark Monroe and executive produced by Roy E. Disney . The film was released on October 17, 2008 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . The film chronicles
744-465: The state as a life insurance agent for Germania Life Insurance Company . But his political ambitions continued. In 1916, he ran for one of Montana's two at-large seats for Congress, but did not place among the top two finishers. Jeannette Rankin , who was born in the state and worked for women's suffrage, gained the second-highest number of votes and won a seat. She helped gain a national constitutional amendment to achieve universal suffrage for women. In
775-590: The use of tribal funds for administrative purposes, denouncing boarding schools, allowing Indians to practice their ceremonies, and passing the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA). He supported the IRA by traveling to Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation in 1934 to explain the new policies to the reservation's business council. Throughout his life, Linderman collected Native American stories. His first book, Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-fire,
806-464: The yacht race, and finally the weeklong Los Angeles to Honolulu race itself. The crew numbered 15 young sailors of varied experience: Chris Branning, Graham Brant-Zawadzki, Chris Clark, Charlie Enright , Jesse Fielding, Robbie Kane, Steve Manson, Chris Schubert, Kate Theisen, Mark Towill (at 18, the youngest crew member), Genny Tulloch, navigator Piet van Os, Chris Welch, Kit Will and the 21-year-old skipper, Jeremy Wilmot. Executive producer Roy Disney
837-692: Was a sailing enthusiast and Transpac competitor who held several sailing speed records including the Los Angeles to Honolulu monohull time record, which he set on his boat Pyewacket in July 1999. The concept for the film came from TP52 Class Association executive director Tom Pollack, who passed it on to former ESPN producer Leslie DeMeuse, who has worked with Disney on other sailing-related film projects. In early 2006, Roy E. Disney, longtime sailing master Robbie Haines and DeMeuse considered 538 applications and picked 30 finalists, from which 15 were chosen in
868-627: Was born in Cleveland , Ohio . He was the child of James Bird Linderman and Mary Ann Brannan Linderman. He attended schools in Ohio and Illinois , including Oberlin College . In 1885, at the age of sixteen, he moved to the Swan Valley of Montana Territory in search of "the most unspoiled wilderness I could discover." While working as a trapper from 1885 to 1891, Linderman met many members of
899-639: Was born. His parents joined him in Montana the following year. Around 1900, the Linderman family moved to Sheridan, Montana , where Frank worked several jobs, as an assayer, furniture salesman, and newspaperman. He bought the local newspaper and renamed it the Sheridan Chinook. He bought most of the paper's content from a publishing house in Spokane, but each week he published a few columns of his own writing—poetry, "Uncle Billy" sayings, and stories about local miners. Linderman became active in politics and
930-581: Was elected in 1902 to the Montana Legislature as the representative from Madison County, Montana ; his term was one year, and he was elected again in 1904, serving in 1905. That same year, the Linderman family moved to the capital city of Helena . After his term in the legislature, Linderman served as assistant secretary of state from 1905 to 1907. He also opened an assay office in Helena. Linderman changed jobs again in 1907 and began traveling
961-421: Was published in 1915 by Charles Scribner's Sons . After moving with his family to a log home on Montana's Flathead Lake in 1917, Linderman focused his attention on writing. He had spent his life gathering stories, and he felt a duty to write them down. He wrote as much in a letter to a friend, "I feel it a duty to, in some way, preserve the old West, especially Montana, in printer's ink, and if I can only accomplish