Chief John Smith (likely born between 1822 and 1826, though allegedly as early as 1784; died February 6, 1922) was an Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian who lived in the Cass Lake, Minnesota area....
The exact age of John Smith at the time of his death has been a subject of controversy. Federal Commissioner of Indian Enrollment Ransom J. Powell argued that "it was disease and not age that made him look the way he did"[2] and remarked that according to records he was 88 years old. Paul Buffalo, who had met Smith when a small boy, said he had repeatedly heard the old man state that he was "seven or eight", "eight or nine" and "ten years old" when the "stars fell"[2] in the Leonid meteor shower of November 13, 1833. Local historian Carl Zapffe writes:
"Birthdates of Indians of the 19th Century had generally been determined by the Government in relation to the awe-inspiring shower of meteorites that burned through the American skies just before dawn on 13 November 1833, scaring the daylights out of civilized and uncivilized peoples alike. Obviously it was the end of the world. . . .".[3] This estimate tied to the Leonids implies the oldest possible age of John Smith at just under 100 years at the time of his death
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NOSHELTR on November 30th, 2021 at 14:10 UTC »
Something tells me that wasn’t his original name.
Spartan2470 on November 30th, 2021 at 14:56 UTC »
It's far more likely that he was between 96 and 100.
Per his Wikipedia page:
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KeegorTheDestroyer on November 30th, 2021 at 17:01 UTC »
My elbow watching me do my 30 minute facial moisturizing routine