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Taiyatewin
(Can See Her House/Ida Thomson Braaten)

1900 -

     Ida Thomson, the daughter of Iha Wastewin and James Thomson, was born at Wood Mountain. She attended school in her mother's living room, where each day her father conducted classes for his family along with some of the Browns and Ogles.
     As a girl she sometimes rode in the horse races at Wood Mountain rodeo and

Taiyatewin

 she always went to the rodeo dances. She loved to ride and to dance.
    It was no surprise when she married a cowboy, John Braaten. He herded cattle for many different ranchers and usually Ida rode along with him.
    After John died in the 1960s she continued to live at Wood Mountain on a quarter of land that had once belonged to her mother. Finally in  the 1980s she moved to the Pioneer Home in Rockglen, where she presently resides.


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