Philip Frazier

Philip Frazier
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Short Name: Philip Frazier
Full Name: Frazier, Philip, 1892-1964
Birth Year: 1892
Death Year: 1964

A full blood­ed Sioux, Fra­zier was born in a te­pee, com­ing from a line of mis­sion­ar­ies.
His grand­fa­ther was Ar­te­mas Eh­na­ma­ni, a San­tee Da­ko­ta who was con­vert­ed to Chris­ti­an­ity by mis­sion­ar­ies while in pri­son af­ter the U.S.-Da­ko­ta con­flict of 1862. Eh­na­ma­ni be­came pas­tor of the larg­est Da­ko­ta church, Pil­grim Pres­by­ter­ian.
Philip at­tend­ed the San­tee In­di­an School, Yank­ton Col­lege Aca­de­my, the North­field Mount Her­mon School in Mas­sa­chu­setts, and Dart­mouth College (leaving the lat­ter to join the army).
He re­ceived de­grees from Ob­er­lin Col­lege (1922), Chi­ca­go Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry (BDiv 1925), and Dart­mouth College, Ha­no­ver, New Hamp­shire (DD 1964).
Ordained in 1926, he min­is­tered among the Sioux, and at the end of his life, was su­per­vis­or of the Sioux In­di­an Mis­sion of Stand­ing Rock Re­ser­va­tion, North Da­ko­ta.

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