| 词条 | Donald McKay (scout) |
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Donald McKay (1836 – April 19, 1899) was an American scout, actor, and spokesman. He is best known as the leader of the Warm Springs Indians during the Modoc War and American Indian Wars. BiographyDonald McKay was born in 1836 in Oregon Territory to fur trader Thomas McKay and She-Who-Rides-Like The Wind Umatilla, a Cayuse woman from the Umatilla tribe.[1] In 1852, McKay worked as a translator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Army. In 1872, during the Modoc War, the U.S. Army issued McKay with a temporary commission as captain to lead the Warms Springs Indian Scouts. McKay, met with "Captain Jack" Kintpuash, of the Modoc band, to negotiate an end to the standoff. In the summer of 1873 the war ended with the defeat of the Modoc and the execution of Captain Jack.[2] Following the Modoc War, McKay toured the country with several Warm Springs Scouts and performed in Wild West shows that were popular at the time. He toured Europe with promoter "Colonel" Thomas Augustus Edwards performing before European monarchs and then returned home to participate in the 1876 American Centennial Exposition celebration in Philadelphia.[3] In 1877, Donald was a part of the 'Texas Jack Combination' formed by Texas Jack Omohundro and debuted in St. Louis that year.[4] Donald toured the U.S with his family to promote patent medicines with the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company of Boston and later with the Oregon Indian Medicine Company formed by T.A. Edwards.[5] In 1881 Edwards published a biography of McKay titled Daring Donald McKay; or, The last war-trail of the Modocs.[6] In 1892, Donald McKay and his family settled on the Umatilla Indian Reservation where McKay resumed his work as a translator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. McKay died on April 19, 1899 in Pendleton, Oregon and is buried at Saint Andrews Mission Cemetery. References1. ^{{cite book|title=US Census|date=1850|publisher=Roll: M432_742|location=Marion, Oregon Territory|page=101}} 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Jette|first1=Melinda|title=Donald McKay|url=https://oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/donald-mckay/|website=The Oregon History Project.|accessdate=29 December 2017}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Cothran|first1=Boyd|title=Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence|date=2014|publisher=UNC Press Books|page=104|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pReFBAAAQBAJ&dq}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=Wood's Theater|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025759/1877-05-15/ed-1/seq-1/|accessdate=16 May 2017|publisher=The Cincinnati Daily Star|date=May 15, 1877}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=McFarland|first1=Jeremy Agnew|title=Medicine in the Old West: A History, 1850–1900|date=2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786456031|pages=190–191|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3N2CB-8hdNUC}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Edwards|first1=T.A.|title=Daring Donald McKay; or, the Last War Trail of the Modoc. The Romance of the life of Donald McKay, government scout and chief of the Warm Spring Indians|date=1881|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_TiMAEACAAJ&dq|publisher=Rounds Bros|location=Chicago}} External links
10 : 1836 births|1899 deaths|19th-century American male actors|19th-century translators|Native American people of the Indian Wars|People from Pendleton, Oregon|People of the American Old West|People of the Modoc War|Spokespersons|Wild West shows |
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