Winona Blanche Allanson ( - fl. 1927)

Winona Blanche Allanson collected folk tales and myths of the Native Americans of Dakota. She was a great-granddaughter of the noted Minnesota trader, Major Joseph R. Brown, and through his wife, Suzanne Frenier, is descended from "Wenonah, daughter of Waanatan, of the dynasty of Red Thunder, head chief of the Confederated Sioux nation."