Anson Graves

Anson was a Chippewa man of the Red Lake Chippewa tribe

Map of Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota 1911

Red Lake Band of Chippewa, it is unique as the only "closed reservation" in Minnesota. In a closed reservation, all land is held in common by the tribe and there is no private property. The tribe claims the land by right of conquest and aboriginal title; they were not reassigned to it by the United States government. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa refused to join with six other bands in organizing as the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in the mid-1930s; at the time, its people wanted to preserve their traditional system of hereditary chiefs, rather than forming an electoral government. Seven principal clans (doodems) found on the Red Lake Indian Reservation are makwa (bear), mikinaak (turtle), owaazisii (bullhead), nigig (otter), migizi (eagle), waabizheshi (marten), and ogiishkimanisii (kingfisher).

Biography:
Anson Graves was born c. 1891 to unknown parents, both from Minnesota presumably Chippewa. He married Julia Eva but her surname has not been identified. He was one of five siblings, although because the surnames are different he may have been an only child with two sets of adopted siblings, one named Smith, and the other named Howard.

The State School for the Feeble Minded (aka Fairbault State Hospital) was constructed in 1881 and razed in 1957.
Anson was an inmate of the Minnesota School for Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics
on September 10, 1918 (no record of when he was admitted), and was transferred to and admitted to the Canton Asylum on October 10, 1918. In the book Vanished in Hiawatha, author Carla Joinson states that he was admitted on October 10, 1918, diagnosed as an epileptic, and died on February 12, 1926. (Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes recurrent seizures, which are episodes of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Epilepsy is defined as having two or more unprovoked seizures.)

While he died at Canton, his remains were not buried there. A search of cemeteries in Beltrami County turned up empty. It is unknown where he was buried, but it was NOT in the Hiawatha Cemetery at the canton Asylum.

His profile is part of the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Canton_Asylum.

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1910 Apr 26 - "United States, Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2L6-JC2 : Wed Mar 06 00:50:43 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 1910, pg. 557/1341, line 21 (age 20), census of Red Lake Reservation, Beltrami County, Minnesota

1910 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll418unit/page/n208/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 209/452, line 48 (age 19), census of Red Lake Reservation, Beltrami County, Minn.

1911 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll418unit/page/n305/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 306/452, line 287 (age 20), census of Red Lake Reservation, Beltrami County, Minn.

1912 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll418unit/page/n385/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 386/452, line 313 (age 21), census of Red Lake Reservation, Beltrami County, Minn.

1913 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGP2-FVX2 : Fri Mar 08 02:55:49 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 25/541, line 316 (age 22), census of the Red Lake And Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1914 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7ZM6-2SN2 : Sun Mar 10 21:19:02 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 111/541, line 290 (b=1891), census of the Red Lake And Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1915 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7JXQ-CF6Z : Fri Mar 08 01:13:29 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 202/541, line 338 (b=1891), census of the Red Lake And Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, MInn.

1916 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7J6N-7PN2 : Sat Mar 09 08:13:26 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 290/541, line 336 (b=1891), census of the Red Lake And Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, MInn.

1917 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7JN6-PZ3Z : Sat Mar 09 23:30:30 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 380/541, line 355 (b=1891), census of the Red Lake And Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, MInn.

1918 Sep 10 - "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7Y11-W1T2 : Fri Nov 22 19:33:27 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves and Frank Bad Boy, from 1917 to 1918, pg. 385/4362, card # A2233, Inmate of the Minnesota School for Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics ("Epileptic, at times Insane")

1919 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7J8L-5ZZM : Sun Mar 10 11:20:23 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 470/541, line 374 (b=1891), census of the Red Lake And Pembina Indians, Red Lake Agency, MInn.

1920 Jan 30 - "United States, Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6J7-FFM : Sun Mar 10 07:40:48 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 1920, pg. 651/1130, line 33 (age 28), census of the Asylum for Insane Indians, Canton Township, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1920 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGK1-CKG5 : Sat Mar 09 03:25:18 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 31/545, line 396 (b=1891, census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1921 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7Q-D9KF : Sun Mar 10 13:10:33 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 127/545, line 381 (b=1891), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1921 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:688C-J46P : Wed Dec 04 03:20:51 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 1921, pg. 508/522, line 9, census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1922 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGRK-1FNM : Sat Mar 09 06:17:15 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 290/545, line 400 (b=1891), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1923 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG15-W766 : Wed Mar 06 22:31:36 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, pg. 480/545, line 421 (b=1891), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1924 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6612-VG4M : Sun Mar 10 09:26:25 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 1924, pg. 34/696, line 449 (b=1891), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minn.

1924 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:688Q-XGKH : Sun Mar 10 17:03:53 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 1924, pg. 515/522, line 14, Canton Asylum male census

1925 Apr 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:661B-L1J2 : Sat Mar 09 19:23:46 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 1925, pg. 140/696, line 747 (b=1891), census of the Chippewa Indians, Redlake Agency, Minn.

1925 - "South Dakota, State Census, 1925", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMWB-TV7 : Sat Mar 09 01:52:11 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 1925, pg. 2164/3378, card #699 (age 33)

1926 Feb 14 - "United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLLS-KKC1 : Sun Mar 10 06:57:15 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 14 February 1926, pg. 546/574, line 747 (age 35), census of the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota

1926 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XS1-Z53D : Sat Mar 09 04:49:49 UTC 2024), Entry for Anson Graves, 1926, pg. 245/696, line 0 (died February 14, 1926), census of the Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Agency, Minnesota