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Joseph James is the name of two Kansa-Osage-French interpreters on the Kansas and Indian Territory frontier in the 19th century. Both were usually called “Joe Jim” or “Jojim.” ==Joe Jim== Joe Jim, Sr. was probably born in the 1790s at the Osage town in Vernon County, Missouri. He is believed to have been the son of a French trader and an Osage woman. By about 1815, Joe Jim was living among the Kaw tribe along the Kansas River in what would become the state of Kansas. Joe Jim married Hunt Jimmy, a daughter of Kaw chieftain White Plume, and thereafter became an important member of the tribe. Joe Jim is believed to have been a signatory to an 1825 treaty ceding Kaw land to the United States government under the name of Ky-he-ga-shin-ga (Little Chief).〔Unrau, William E. ''Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity''. Lawrence, KS: U of KS Press, 1989, pp. 30-32〕 Fluent in English, French, Kaw (Kanza) and Osage (nearly identical with Kaw) Joe Jim became an interpreter for the U.S. government about 1829. In 1830 he served as a guide for a surveying expedition to western Kansas by missionary Isaac McCoy. McCoy, critical of most of his associates, was laudatory about Joe Jim.〔"Journal of Isaac McCoy for the Expedition of 1830." Kansas Collection. http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1936/36_4_barnes.htm, accessed Aug 10, 2010〕 The last record we have of Joe Jim is 1837 at which time he was still employed by the U.S. government as an interpreter.〔National Archives, Record Group 75, M-234, Microfilm roll 301, document number 0053〕 Joseph James is listed in the 1843 census of the Kaw, but it is unclear whether this refers to Joe Jim, Sr. or Joe Jim Jr.〔Barry, Louise. "The Kansa Indians and the Census of 1843." ''Kansas Historical Quarterly.'' Vol. 56, Winter 1973, p. 483〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph James and Joseph James, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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