Also known as Wacante Waste Wi. Also known as Sadie Afraid Of Horses. Her married name was Sadie Janis.
Sadie Afraid Of His Horse was born on December 22, 1910. She was the daughter of
Frank Afraid Of His Horse and
Lucy Red Cloud. She married
Clarence A. Janis circa 1945.
1 Sadie Afraid Of His Horse died on August 22, 2009 at age 98; Sadie Afraid of His Horses Janis Sadie Janis, 98, died on August 22, 2009. She was born on December 22, 1910 to Frank Afraid of Horses and Lucy Red Cloud. Her Lakota name was ‘Wacante Waste Wi”, which means “She That Makes People Feel Happy.” Sadie was a direct relative to four great Lakota chiefs. Her great grandfathers were Chief Red Cloud and Man Afraid of His Horses; grandfather was Chief Young Man Afraid of His Horses; and her great uncle was Chief Little Wound. The name of Afraid of His Horses came about as the result of enemy tribes being fearful when Man Afraid of His Horses came into a battle, and he got the name because the enemy was fearful when they saw his horses in battle. The Lakota name of “Tasunke Kokipapi” translated as “The Man Whose Horses They Are Afraid of.”, but was shortened by Indian agents. Sadie grew up in Kyle, South Dakota, and would talk of a black man who she called her grandpa. His name was Alexander Baxter, and he came to be part of the Little Wound family. This came about in the late 1860s when Little Wound went to Fr. Laramie, and a young black boy was crying at the fort. He asked the Army officer why the boy was crying, and was told that he had come west with the soldiers as a bootblack, but they were going to leave him at the fort when they made their march east. Little Wound told the officer that if the soldiers did not want him, he would take the young boy, and he lived near Chief Little Wound for the rest of his life. He was even allotted trust land on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He was buried at the St. Barnabas cemetery in Kyle near the Little Wound grave, and each memorial day Sadie would place flowers on his grave. In 1946, she married Clarence Janis, and they had two children. Her first child died in infancy. As a wife of a World War II veteran, she was very active in the Women’s Auxiliary, and accompanied her husband when he was part of the honor guard for the funeral of Indian veterans. She also enjoyed her time accompanying Bessie Cornelius to the reservation communities when Bessie did her home economic classes. In 1975, Sadie along with her sister Zona were invited to St. Louis, Missouri to be part of the Chatillon-Deminil mansion becoming a state Historical Site. The homestead for this mansion had originally belonged to Henry Chatillon, and the state historical staff had found a picture of an Indian woman when they went through the attic of the mansion. The picture was Henry Chatillon’s wife whose name was “She Who Wears a Bear Robe”, and she was a daughter of Chief Bull Bear and a sister to Little Wound. In the book, Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman wrote of the death of Chatiillon’s wife as Chatillon was Francis Parkman’s guide when the author traveled on the Oregon Trail. She Who Wears a Bear Robe had died giving birth to a baby girl, and after Chatillon had finished his job as a guide to Francis Parkman, he had to make a decision as to whether to take the baby girl back to St. Louis with him. The Bull Bear family told Chatillon that it would be better for the Lakota family to raise the child. The picture found at the Chatillon-Deminil mansion was the great grandmother of Sadie and Zona. It was a memorable trip for the two sisters, and they were interviewed on television about their great grandmother when they were in St. Louis. In 1988, when her husband Clarence died, she moved to Rapid City to live with her daughter Darlene Shortbull. She then became a devoted grandmother to her three grandchildren – Paul John, Vanessa, and Frank Shortbull. Over the last 11 years, she was also a devoted great grandmother to her grandson Brandon. She was a very private and unassuming woman who always avoided the spotlight. When she was asked to speak at public functions, she would say that she was a listener not a talker. Survivors include her daughter Darlene and son-in-law, Thomas Shortbull; three grandchildren, Paul John, Vanessa, and Frank; one grandchild, Brandon; a niece, Starlet Pipe; a nephew, Peter Pipe; a nephew, Ed Young Man Afraid of His Horses; cousins, Oliver Red Cloud, Delphine Red Cloud, Mary Ann Red Cloud and their families, and the families of Pugh Young Man, Bill and Nancy Horncloud, Floyd Hand, Shirley Poor Thunder, Melvin Red Cloud, Bernard Red Cloud, Celeste Brings, Ival Janis, Guy Janis, Curtis Janis, Pat Janis, Vincent Brewer, Leroy and Josephine Richards and Bessie Cornelius, and Lula Mae Red Cloud, Maxine Janis, Lenora Hudson and her daughter Wiyaka, Ramona Means, adopted Brother William and Marla Powers, and Ron and Don Forgey. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, her brother Paul, sister Zona, and her daughter. A visitation will be held from 5 – 9 pm, Tuesday, August 25 at Edstrom & Rooks Funeral Services at Serenity Springs. A rosary service will begin at 7:00 pm. Funeral services will be at 10:00 am, Wednesday at Serenity Springs, with the Rev. Robert Two Bulls officiating. Interment will follow at 12:30 pm at Black Hills National Cemetery. Arrangements have been placed in the care of Edstrom & Rooks Funeral Services at Serenity Springs. Friends may sign her online guest register and offer condolences at www.serenityspringsfuneralchapel.com. .
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