Chapter 47
-- Compiled by the Cumberland Women's Club
and Published by the Cumberland Advocate
1874-1974
(used by permission of the Cumberland Advocate)
Donated by Linda Mott
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Sand Lake Native Americans
Frank
Bearhart married Maggie
Littlepipe on February 23, 1913. There were
several houses in
the
area which is now Maple Plain Reservation. Cutlip
Littlepipe built his log house halfway
up the
big hill. He bought this land which supported many people. Bisonettes
and Jack Kasabin
lived
here. Cutlip Littlepipe lived here 20 or 30 years before Frank Bearhart
started to reside
at Maple
Plain. Mr. Bisonette lived on the east side of the village.
After
the death of Cutlip Littlepipe, Jack Kasabin took over the deed on the
land. He was
unable
to pay the taxes so the county took over the land. After this the Indians
homesteaded the
land
until the tribal council bought the land in 1962. The area mounted to seventeen
and
one-half
acres.
After
Cutlip Littlepipe died Henry Coon
from Trego (Washburn Co.) came to Sand Lake. In the winter of 1917
Mary
Bonine also came from Trego.
By Frank Bearhart--as told to John Bearhart
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