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'''Do-Hum-Me''' (c. 1825–1843) was the daughter of the chief of the [[Sauk (tribe)|Sauk]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hLjuEAAAQBAJ&dq=Do-Hum-Me&pg=PA316 |title=The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman |date=2024-01-17 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-264778-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Spires |first1=Derrick R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVxqEAAAQBAJ&dq=Do-Hum-Me&pg=PA162 |title=The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction |last2=Roberts |first2=Christina |last3=Rezek |first3=Joseph |last4=Murison |first4=Justine S. |last5=Mielke |first5=Laura L. |last6=Looby |first6=Christopher |last7=Lazo |first7=Rodrigo |last8=Knight |first8=Alisha |last9=Hsu |first9=Hsuan L. |date=2022-04-13 |publisher=Broadview Press |isbn=978-1-77048-826-7 |language=en}}</ref> According to her gravestone, her father's name was Nan-Nouce-Push-Ee-Toe.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-o3AQAAMAAJ&dq=Do-Hum-Me&pg=PA283 |title=The Pictorial National Library |date=1848 |publisher=William Simonds and Company |language=en}}</ref> Some sources state that her mother died when Do-Hum-Me was seven years old, and Nan-Nouce-Push-Ee-Toe raised her with great love and affection.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Cleaveland |first=Nehemiah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqB4AAAAMAAJ&dq=Do-Hum-Me&pg=PA23 |title=Green-wood Illustrated |date=1847 |publisher=R. Martin |language=en}}</ref> | '''Do-Hum-Me''' (c. 1825–1843) was the daughter of the chief of the [[Sauk (tribe)|Sauk]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hLjuEAAAQBAJ&dq=Do-Hum-Me&pg=PA316 |title=The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman |date=2024-01-17 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-264778-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Spires |first1=Derrick R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVxqEAAAQBAJ&dq=Do-Hum-Me&pg=PA162 |title=The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction |last2=Roberts |first2=Christina |last3=Rezek |first3=Joseph |last4=Murison |first4=Justine S. |last5=Mielke |first5=Laura L. |last6=Looby |first6=Christopher |last7=Lazo |first7=Rodrigo |last8=Knight |first8=Alisha |last9=Hsu |first9=Hsuan L. |date=2022-04-13 |publisher=Broadview Press |isbn=978-1-77048-826-7 |language=en}}</ref> According to her gravestone, her father's name was Nan-Nouce-Push-Ee-Toe.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-o3AQAAMAAJ&dq=Do-Hum-Me&pg=PA283 |title=The Pictorial National Library |date=1848 |publisher=William Simonds and Company |language=en}}</ref> Some sources state that her mother died when Do-Hum-Me was seven years old, and Nan-Nouce-Push-Ee-Toe raised her with great love and affection.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Cleaveland |first=Nehemiah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqB4AAAAMAAJ&dq=Do-Hum-Me&pg=PA23 |title=Green-wood Illustrated |date=1847 |publisher=R. Martin |language=en}}</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 17:08, 19 August 2025
Template:Short description Do-Hum-Me (c. 1825–1843) was the daughter of the chief of the Sauk Native American tribe.[1][2] According to her gravestone, her father's name was Nan-Nouce-Push-Ee-Toe.[3] Some sources state that her mother died when Do-Hum-Me was seven years old, and Nan-Nouce-Push-Ee-Toe raised her with great love and affection.[4]
In 1843, she accompanied her father in a trip to Princeton, New Jersey for treaty negotiations. While there, she met and fell in love with a young member of the Iowa tribe named Cow-Hick-Kee.[2] They married in Philadelphia, and soon thereafter were employed by P. T. Barnum's American Museum in Manhattan, performing ceremonial Native American dances.[5][6]
A contemporary writer, Lydia Maria Child, wrote about Do-Hum-Me at length, and described Do-Hum-Me as "a very handsome woman, with a great deal of heart and happiness in her countenance".[2] Many authors wrote about her, and many referred to what may have been part of her stage name - "The Productive Pumpkin".[7][2]
Do-Hum-Me was instantly very popular, not merely for her performances, but also because onlookers were delighted by the devotion and open, loving tenderness between her and her young husband.[4][7] Unfortunately, within a mere four to six weeks of their marriage, Do-Hum-Me died, aged only 18, likely due to a communicable illness, such as influenza.[8][4] Lydia Maria Child blamed the death upon such factors as "sleeping by hot anthracite fires", followed by exposure to cold, wintry air, and then having to perform in poorly-ventilated, crowded indoor venues such as saloons and theatres.[2][9] Child noted that such conditions - and illnesses - tended to impact Indigenous people more severely than white people. Indeed, many of Do-Hum-Me's compatriots became ill at the same time she died, and a number of them also died.[9][4]
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn donated a burial plot, and she was interred by her father and husband, with many observers remarking upon their obvious grief.[7][10][4] The poet Walt Whitman wrote about her grave.[1] Her grave monument featured a bas relief of the figure of a weeping Indigenous warrior, carved by the sculptor Robert E. Launitz, and was "one of the earliest carved statues for an American cemetery".[11] Her grave became the most well-known and most frequently-visited in the cemetery.[3] Another poet, Carlos D. Stuart, wrote a poem about her, entitled Dohummee.[10]
In 2005 her monument was restored with the effort of Isaac Feliciano, whose wife Rosa perished in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center.
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