Winner Community Members

Colombe Family - Todd and Tripp County

Kate Greenwood Wood Garneaux was born in 1880 to Paul Greenwood and Laura Bear Cloud. She first married M.A. Wood, a homesteader and when he later passed away she married Ambrose Garneaux.

Indian Policeman in Washington. Winner SD. Frank Janis a well-known Sioux Indian who lives a few miles north of Winner was notified this week that he had been appointed a member of the police force guarding the United States capitol and office building of the House of Representatives at Washington DC. The position pays a good salary and lasts during the entire season of Congress. The position was secured through the intercession of friends of Mr. Janis at Winner and Congressman Gandy of this district. Frank Janis is an industrious Indian citizen with large farming and stock interests which has been built up mostly through his own efforts. This is the first occasion whereby recognition has been given a representative of the Sioux in Tripp county. A 14 year old daughter of Mr. Janis won a gold medal a couple of years ago at Carlisle in an efficiency contest wherein all the Indian colleges in the United States were represented. (Sioux Falls Press in American Indian Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1916.)

Frank John King settled along Bull Creek near the Big White River Issue Station in 1896. He later became Boss Farmer after the issue station was moved to Hamill. He married Martha Bob Tail Crow and their son Frank John King was born in 1905. John King Sr. was accidently shot and killed at a horse race in 1910. John Jr. was raised in the Indian Community at Ideal. In 1942 he and his wife Pauline and their family moved to Winner, SD. (Before Homesteads in Tripp County and the Rosebud)

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