Ida Adeline Denig (youngest daughter of Edwin Denig and Deer Little Woman) ~ wife of Charles Simpson

Portraits of Edwin T. Denig and his wife (used in 46th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology) were sent by Mrs C. S. Simpson, Pilot Mound, Manitoba, Canada, to R. G. Denig, March 21, 1923, for use in "The Manoe-Denigs," a family chronicle, New York, 1924, and were taken from a locket in Mrs Simpson's possession. Probably taken between 1855 and 1858. In 1855 Mr Denig took his wife and family to the States, and the pictures may have been made at that time. --John C. Ewers.
Letter of September 30, 1965 from Mrs Doris Cerveri, 1264 Patrick Avenue, Reno, Nevada states: "Deer Little Woman, who was married to Edwin Thompson Denig, and who was a daughter of Iron Arrow Point, Chief of Stone Band of Assiniboines. I do not know of her Indian name. Later she was known as Christiana Olson."
Edwin Denig entered fur trade 1833 and became very influential among the tribes of the upper Missouri. Was for a time a Government scout.... bookkeeper for the American Fur Co. Earlier had gone to St Louis and became connected with the Choteaus and the American Fur Co. Before he was 30 years of age he was living among the Indians as the representative of these two companies in the country of the Sioux, between the headwaters of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.