Do-Hum-Me (1825–1843) was the daughter of the chief of the Sauk Native American tribe. In 1843, she accompanied her father in a trip east to

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for treaty negotiations. While there, she met and fell in love with an

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representative named Cow-Hick-Kee. They married and soon thereafter were employed by

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's American Museum in

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, performing ceremonial Indian dances. Do-Hum-Me was instantly very popular, but died at age 18, possibly of

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in Brooklyn donated a burial plot. She was buried in her wedding dress. In 2005 her monument was restored with the effort of Isaac Feliciano, whose wife Rosa perished in the

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at the World Trade Center.

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* Sac and Fox people 1825 births 1843 deaths Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery 19th-century Native Americans {{US-entertainer-stub