Bruno Creek #4 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/8/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Pottawatomie County is named for the Algonquin speaking Potawatomie people, one of the many tribes removed to Indian Territory, the place we now call Oklahoma. Treaties and agreements made in 1861 and 1867, between the United States government and certain bands of the Potawatomi in Kansas set up the legal groundwork for their removal to Oklahoma. Seminole Indians occupied the lands where the Potawatomi’s were headed, so a delegation of Potawatomi’s and government agents surveyed and negotiated with the Seminoles for purchase of certain lands in what is now southern Pottawatomie county. The survey was conducted in 1868, and within a few months the first of the Potawatomi “citizens” began to arrive from Kansas. One of those early Potawatomi settlers was John Baptiste Bruno, and his wife Mary Rhodd. John Baptiste Bruno was born December 25, 1840 somewhere in Iowa Territory. Several sources of information say that he was of Blackfoot Indian heritage through his mother, Julia and French through his father, Anthony Bruno. John B. Bruno married Mary Rhodd, a full blood Potawatomi Indian in Kansas soon after the end of the Civil War. Mary Rhodd Bruno, Johns B’s wife, was born in Kansas in 1850 on the Potawatomi reservation. Her father was Charlie Rhodd, her mother was Was-to-win. Both Mary’s parents were born on the old Potawatomie lands in Illinois. When John B. Bruno brought his family to Potawatomie County the game was plentiful and the streams were clear and full of fish. But he was among those Potawatomie who realized that the old ways of life were passing and the Potawatomi’s called for the priests to come among them. Although the Jesuits had been the usual order ministering to the Potawatomie, the Order of Saint Benedict were the ones who founded the Sacred Heart Mission in 1876. When the Sacred Heart mission was built. John Bruno helped to cut and hew the logs used in the construction of the mission church and school buildings. After a fire at Sacred Heart in 1901 destroyed all but the stone buildings of the original mission, John Bruno also helped rebuild the Sacred Heart complex in southern Pottawatomie County. For many years the Bruno name appeared on the rosters of students at both the boys and girls schools, and the Bruno’s were active parishioners at the Sacred Heart mission. John B. Bruno and Mary Rhodd had nine children, seven of those nine lived to leave descendants. There are hundreds of people on the Oklahoma Potawatomi rolls who can claim a Bruno in their ancestry, proof that John B. Bruno and Mary left a sizeable legacy in Pottawatomie County history. They are both buried in the Sacred Heart cemetery, as are dozens of their descendants and relatives.

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