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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by Sparks on February 20, 2024, 05:15:31 am »
Mary Lynn Shomperlen Geniusz is white. Looked at her parents especially the mother. All Dutch in the Canadian census and her grandparents are buried at The Pas, Flin Flon-Northwest Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. This this was taken from Find a grave. Again I went back several generations and all white and German, England and Dutch.

This is all so confusing by now. Dutch, German, English, what about the Polish connection? According to WINative's link Mary Lynn Shomperlen Geniusz's mother was "Geniusz, Lucille (Nee Sipowicz) … born June 6, 1910, in Sokolka (Russian occupied Poland)". But according to the biography linked to, written by Wendy Makoons Geniusz, Mary Siisip Geniusz's "mother was born at the Pas in Manitoba". Is this a blatant lie, then?

This statement from the obituary supports WINative's claim that the two Marys are one and the same person: "Later the delighted and loving grandmother of Wendy Makoons (Errol) Geniusz".
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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by WINative on February 20, 2024, 04:53:58 am »
Thanks Diana I suspected it since they were spawned from a notorious fraud in Margaret Peschel and makes sense they would try to do the same things. It does in fact look like Peschel created her own tribe based on her fantasy.
I looked at Margaret Cook Peschel's family also on FamilySearch.org and indeed all her family are from England and most were recent immigrants. If you can post more of those records I would appreciate it since that's all anyone wants to see for proof is their census, marriage, and death records.


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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by Diana on February 20, 2024, 04:07:58 am »
Mary Lynn Shomperlen Geniusz is white. Looked at her parents especially the mother. All Dutch in the Canadian census and her grandparents are buried at The Pas, Flin Flon-Northwest Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. This this was taken from Find a grave. Again I went back several generations and all white and German, England and
Dutch.



Here's a Mary Geniusz biography likely written by her daughter Wendy Geniusz.

https://notablefolkloristsofcolor.org/portfolio/mary-siisip-geniusz/
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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by WINative on February 20, 2024, 03:32:37 am »
I am not sure if you answered your own question by seeing the obituary but here is another obituary for Mary Lynn Shomperlen's husband Robert Geniusz'z mother- Lucille Geniusz and clearly supports my last post of Mary Lynn Shomperlen's family.

Here is the copy in case people cannot view it again.

eniusz, Lucille (Nee Sipowicz) 99 years young, born June 6, 1910, in Sokolka (Russian occupied Poland). Christmas Eve 1916, fled disorder of WWI with her beloved mother Michaelina (1881 - 1937) and dear brother Zigmunt (1903 - ?) to join her father Michael (1878 - 1952), who had immigrated to Detroit 6 years earlier. . Swept off her feet in 1937 by Edward Stanley Geniusz (1913 - 2001), she married and settled in Milwaukee. Became the loving mother of Edward Tom Geniusz, Edwardine Michelle (Allen K.) Charnow, and Robert Myles (Mary Lynn Shomperlen) Geniusz. Later the delighted and loving grandmother of Wendy Makoons (Errol) Geniusz and Annmarie Fay Geniusz (husband Stephen Bockhold).

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/jsonline/name/lucille-geniusz-obituary?id=3194775
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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by Sparks on February 20, 2024, 03:14:03 am »
This is the brother of Mary Lynn Shomperlen (Robert) Geniusz, so her parents were George and Mollie Shomperlen.
https://www.jsonline.com/obituaries/pwix0563482

Clicking your link only redirects me to https://www.jsonline.com/ — However, I found a similar obituary:

https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/wi/south-milwaukee/russell-george-shomperlen-16886394

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Russell George Shomperlen Obituary
He was predeceased by : his parents, George Shomperlen and Mollie Shomperlen; his son Jon Russell Shomperlen; his sisters, Sue Leather and Mary Lynn Geniusz (Robert)

I think this is a case of mistaken identity. I cannot find anything anywhere to support your claim that Mary Lynn [Shomperlen] (Robert) Geniusz is the same person as Mary Siisip Geniusz.
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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by WINative on February 19, 2024, 06:00:09 am »
Here's a Mary Geniusz biography likely written by her daughter Wendy Geniusz.

https://notablefolkloristsofcolor.org/portfolio/mary-siisip-geniusz/
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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by WINative on February 19, 2024, 05:56:50 am »
This is the brother of Mary Lynn Shomperlen (Robert) Geniusz, so her parents were George and Mollie Shomperlen.

https://www.jsonline.com/obituaries/pwix0563482
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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by Sparks on February 19, 2024, 05:32:52 am »
… Wendy Geniusz …

AKA Wendy Makoons Geniusz: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/geniusz/

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Dr. Wendy Makoons Geniusz is an Indigenous woman of Cree and Métis decent. She was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but her Cree family comes from the Pas, a Reserve in Manitoba. To honour her Ojibwe namesake, Keewaydinoquay, Geniusz was raised with Ojibwe language and culture. Before coming to York, Geniusz was Professor of Ojibwe Language at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she taught for 14 years.

Since childhood, Geniusz has worked on Ojibwe language and culture revitalization projects in Indigenous communities throughout the Great Lakes Region. All her publications and research focus on creating decolonisation tools for Indigenous language and culture revitalization. Geniusz is the authoress of: Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings, the editor of: Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask (by Mary Siisip Geniusz), and the authoress of the Ojibwe plant name glossary found in that text. She is the co-editor (with Brendan Fairbanks) of Chi-mewinzha: Ojibwe Stories from Leech Lake (by Dorothy Dora Whipple).
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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by WINative on February 19, 2024, 04:29:40 am »
Here is one of her apprentices continuing her legacy and her namesake-Wendy Geniusz, and her mother Mary Geniusz was the direct helper of Margaret Peschel. I bet their not Native either.

Geniusz, who is Cree and Metis on her mother’s side, got her name, Keewaydinoquay, from the indiginous medicine woman who taught her mother.

https://www.spectatornews.com/arts-life/2019/09/teaching-through-tea-and-troubling-history/
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Research Needed / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by Sparks on February 19, 2024, 01:02:52 am »
Garden Island […] The Native American (Ojibwe language) name for the island is Minis Gitigaan, which has become Garden Island by direct translation.
Wikipedia citation
So, sounds like Margaret Peschel created her own tribe based off this islands name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Island_(Michigan)

No direct answer found to that question by googling Minis Gitigaan or Miniss Kitigan.

Except for some info in my quote here:
I found this. At this URL, an article can be downloaded:
https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/ALGQP/article/download/356/260/1122

— Read the quoted part of that 2005 article carefully.
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