Eagle of Delight, also called Hayne Hudjihini in Otoe (b. c. 1795 - d. 1822), was one of the five wives of Chief Shaumonekusse

Shaumonekusse

Chief Shaumonekusse was a leader of the Otoe Native American tribe in the early 19th century. It was one of the Great Plains tribes and closely related to the Ioway and Missouria....

 of the Otoe tribe

Otoe tribe

The Otoe or Oto are a Native American people. The Otoe language, Chiwere, is part of the Siouan family and closely related to that of the related Iowa and Missouri tribes.-History:...

 in the first quarter of the 19th century. They were based in present-day Nebraska

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In 1822, she accompanied her husband with an Indian delegation of chiefs to Washington D.C., where they met James Monroe

James Monroe

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, the President of the United States

President of the United States

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. She was described by those who met her as beautiful and charming. The Bureau of Indian Affairs

Bureau of Indian Affairs

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 (BIA) commissioned Charles Bird King

Charles Bird King

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 to paint portraits of Hudjihini and Shaumonekusse.

Shortly after her visit, Hudjihini died of measles

Measles

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, probably contracted during her travels. It was one of the endemic Eurasia

Eurasia

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n infectious disease

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s to which Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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s had no natural immunity

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Although the original portrait of Eagle of Delight was destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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 in 1865, a patron donated King's personal copy to the White House

White House

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in 1962. The portrait now hangs in the White House library.