Fanny Goodell

  General Notes:

adopted by the Goodells

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In speaking of the different Traders with the Sac and Pox tribe in
old Chief Keokuk's closing years, there was one that I have spoken of,
Isaac G. Baker, who, as was the custom in those days of white men among
the Indians a thousand miles from home, formed an alliance with an Indian
squaw and for the time being had a housekeeper. I have heard this Indian
squaw's name and I think she was of the Fox tribe. She bore him, at
Greenwood in 1849, a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. Twin children were
an unheard of event among Indians. The Interpreter's wife, Julia Good-
ell, immediately took the girl to raise and in 18 months, at the death of
the squaw mother, also took the boy. They grew up known as Fannie
and Isaac Goodell, received a good education and attained a prominence
in the tribe in later years of the tribal history. Fannie was married young
to Alfred Capper. After she bore him five children, a separation ensued,
perhaps over no greater dilficulty than the desire of Mr. Capper to live
in Kansas and Fannie with the tribe in Oklahoma. She was a woman of
refinement and culture and no white woman had a better home with all
the furnishings at the Sac and Fox Agency, where she entertained me in
1903 while I was in the Nation getting history.

She married John Whistler as her second husband, who at that time
had a hundred thousand dollars worth of cattle and other property. Two
children were born to her by this marriage. Her husband died in 1890.
A few years later she married Mr. Nedeau, a man of French and Potta-
watomie Indian blood, a merchant from St. Mary's, Kansas. She is now
a widow in her comfartable home with children and grandchildren around
her at the Sac and Fox Agency. Her picture is presented here and more
history about her and her brother Isaac C. Goodell and their foster moth-
er, Julia, is given under the head of the "Goodell Family."

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ID: I185
Name: Fannie Goodell
Surname: Goodell
Given Name: Fannie
Nickname: Mes Koth
Sex: F
Birth: Apr 1849 in Greenwood Agency, Franklin Co, Kansas 1 2
Death: 1919 in Whistler Ranch, Lincoln Co, Oklahoma
Burial: 1919 Sac and Fox Tribal Cemetery, Stroud, Lincoln Co, Oklahoma 3 4
_UID: 2579BC6E4AAA2C4B8F381C3F44DAEF0769CC
Event: Baker University Education from Nov 1859 to 1861 Palmyra (Baldwin City), Douglas Co, Kansas 5
Event: St Mary's Academy Education from 1861 to 1863 Sisters of Charity, Ft. Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co, Kansas 6 7
Census: Federal Census of Kansas May 1865 Sac and Fox Reservation, Osage Co, Kansas 8
Emigration: Nov 1873 From Lyndon, Osage Co, Kansas to Sac and Fox Reservation, Lincoln Co, Indian Territory 9
Event: Arkansas City Traveller Newspaper News Item 17 Sep 1883 Arkansas City, Cowley Co, Kansas 10
Census: United States Indian Census Schedules 1890 Sac & Fox Agency, Indian Territory 11
Occupation: Entrepeneur from 1891 to 1919 Sac and Fox Indian Reservation, Linclon Co, Oklahoma 12
Event: The Guthrie Leader newspaper News Item 29 Jul 1894 Guthrie, Logan Co, Oklahoma 13
Census: Federal Census of Oklahoma Territory 1900 Sac & Fox Agency, Lincoln Co, Oklahoma 14
Census: Federal Census of Oklahoma 1910 South Keokuk Twp, Lincoln Co, Oklahoma 15
Event: 163 acres Receives Indian land 30 Mar 1915 Pottawatomie & Seminole Counties, Oklahoma 16
Event: interview by John Henry Hauberg Interview 21 Nov 1918 Prague, Lincoln Co, Oklahoma 17
Note: Fanny and Isaac Goodell were twins, born to Indian trader Isaac G. Baker and his wife, a Fo x Indian. After their mother's death, they were adopted by John and Julia A. (Ann-na-mo-tha ) Goodell. Baker left the reservation to open a store on the Santa Fe Trail, and was kille d in a random shooting in 1862. Fanny married first Alfred Capper and had four children - E lla b. 1865, Carrie 1867-72, Charles 1870-83, John b. 1877, and Pauline b. 1879. The marriag e ended in divorce. She married second John H. Whistler Jr., who adopted her daughters Ell a and Pauline. When his brother Joseph died, the couple adopted his nephew John C. Whistler . After Whistler's death, Fanny married third Eli G. Nadeau, a widower who was John H. Whist ler's first cousin. Nadeau was a a member of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi in Kansas.
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Marriage 1 John Harrison Whistler Jr. b: 23 Oct 1838 in Baillytown, Porter Co, Indiana c: 15 Jul 1838 in St Mary's Catholic Church, Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois

Married: 25 Dec 1884 in Sac and Fox Agency, Indian Territory 18

Children

Has Children John Sands Whistler adopted b: 2 Aug 1869 in Kansas
Has No Children Julia Capper adopted b: 8 Apr 1873 in Whistler Ranch, Lincoln Co, Indian Territory
Has Children Pauline Capper Whistler adopted b: 27 Nov 1878 in Sauk and Fox Agency, Lincoln Co, Oklahoma
Has Children Guy Kinzie Whistler b: 25 Aug 1887 in Arkansas City, Cowley Co, Kansas
Has No Children Esther Whistler b: 24 Mar 1890 in Whistler Ranch, Sac & Fox Reservation, Indian Territory


Marriage 2 Eli Gilbert Nadeau b: 13 Aug 1831 in South Bend, St Joseph Co, Indiana

Married: BEF 1899


Sources:

Title: Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1903-1904, Vol. VIII; specifically Histor ical Work in Osage County
Author: Geo. W. Martin. Secretary-Charles R. Green of Lyndon, writer of the Osage County segment
Publication: Geo. A. Clark, State Printer, Topeka 1904 - http:skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/osage/greenrep.htm
Text: I am asked to make a report of my historical work in Osage county to the Society............. .The following named pioneers, many of them now dead or moved away, have thus contributed t o my bureau of historical data in these twelve years..............Mrs. Sarah A. Whistler, Str oud, Okla (1847): Widow of Hon. Wm. Whistler, of Osage County, daughter of Julia Goodell, a S ac Indian, and John Goodell, a white man, interpreter for the Sac and Fox tribes, 1840-'60 . In several interviews when she was here, spring of 1903, visiting the Cappers, relatives o f hers, she gave me the geneology of the Whistler family in Kansas and their history. She an d her sister, Mrs. Fannie Whistler, Nedeau, of the Sac and Fox agency, have given me a good d eal of Sac and Fox history in many interviews.
Title: Interview With Fanny Nadeu at Prague, Oklahoma November 21, 1918
Author: Charles R. Green - Lyndon, Osage County, Kansas
Publication: http://www.augustana.edu/library/SpecialCollections/nadeau.html
Text: - Fanny Goodell speaking of her sister Mary Mitchell Keokuk: Mary's mother was Julia, but he r Indian name was Ann-na-mo-tha. I was her adopted daughter and her niece. My mother and Ma ry's mother were sisters, but my mother died when I was a baby, and her mother adopted me, an d so we are thought to be sisters.
Title: e-mail from Carolyn Simmons dated 7 Apr 2005 - Re: S & F tombstone photos
Author: Carolyn Simmons
Publication: Collection of David R. Frederick, e-mail GrandpaPack@msn.com
Title: Find A Grave Search Engine
Author: Staff
Publication: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bailly&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&G Rid=14049558&
Text: Fannie Goodell Whistler
Birth: 1849
Death: 1919

Family links:
Parents:
John Goodell (1851 - 1875)
Julia A Mitchell Goodell (1814 - 1879)

Children:
Guy Kinzie Whistler (1887 - 1962)*
Little Julo Whistler (1890 - 1890)*

Spouse:
John Harrison Whistler (1838 - 1890)*

Burial:
Sac & Fox Tribal Cemetery
Stroud
Lincoln County
Oklahoma, USA

Created by: Sherry
Record added: Jun 22, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 38643656
Title: Notes For Fannie Goodell - Family Treemaker's Geneology Site - Register Report of John Whistl er
Author: Cheryl Whistler Garrison
Publication: http://familytreemaker.geneology.com/users/g/a/r/Ch.../0003-0008.html
Text: Fannie was educated at Baldwin and married Alfred Capper in January 1867.



Fannie Goodell Capper married 2nd John Whistker Jr a wealthy stockman who owned over a hundr ed thousand dollars worth of cattle and other property. They had two children. He died in 1 890 and she married Mr. Nedeau, a man of French and Potowatomie Indian blood, a merchant fro m St. Mary's, Kansas. In 1903 she was a widow and resaided near the Sac and Fox Agency in Ok lahoma.
Title: In Keokuk's Time On The Kansas Reservation
Author: C.R. Green
Publication: Copyright 1913 by C.R. Green, Historian and Publisher - Olathe, Kansas
Text: During the absence of the Duvall's, John Goodell had sent his son John and foster children, I saac, Fanny and Jane, to school at Baldwin. Some way this did not please Mrs. Goodell, and s he sent Fanny to Leavenworth, in company with Virginia James, daughter of B.A. James, to th e convent of the Sisters of Charity, and on their return from school Bette and Kate Martin an d Fannie and Jane Goodell were much together, and were much in the saddle.
Title: Sisters of Charity, Leavenworth Grow From Humble Beginnings
Author: By Dr. A. M. Murphy - Leavenworth Times, Sunday Morning, February 14, 1954
Publication: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/leavenwo/library/LVN-NUNS.htm
Text: The second Saint Mary Academy was occupied in 1860 and today is the building on Kickapoo tha t houses the convent for the Sisters at the Old Cathedral. The letters "SMA" may still be see n on the portico over the front door.
Repository:
Name: University of Kansas Library
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Title: 1865 Census of Kansas, Osage County, Sac and Fox Reserve
Author: State of Kansas, Census taken in May; transcribed by Sarah Walker-Hitt
Publication: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/osage/library/census/fox.txt
Text: Household No. 216
- Goodell, John - age 50 - male - occupation: farmer - real estate: not reported - persona l property $1000 - birthplace: Canada
- Goodell, Julia - age 50 - female - birthplace: Iowa
- Goodell, Fanny - age 16 - female - birthplace: Kansas
- Goodell, Isaac - age 16 - male - birthplace: Kansas
- Goodell, John - age 13 - male - birthplace: Kansas
- Stephens, E.C. - age 28 - male - occupation: Merchant - Real Estate: not reported - Person al Property: $10000 - birthplace: Ohio
- Anderson, George - age 25 - male - occupation: Gunsmith - Real Estate: not reported - Pers onal property: $50 - birthplace: Illinois
Title: In Keokuk's Time On The Kansas Reservation
Author: C.R. Green
Publication: Copyright 1913 by C.R. Green, Historian and Publisher - Olathe, Kansas
Text: But in 1873 a general exodus of half bloods took place and the Cappers went down to the Natio n. Mrs. Capper and some of the children never returned. Mr. Capper did with two boys and di rectly went into store keeping there in Lyndon and has been at it ever since. A son, Charles , died when half-grown. John Capper, the remaining son, grew up and is one of the leading bu siness men of Lyndon.
Title: The Arkansas City Traveller Newspaper - Arkansas City, Cowley Co, Kansas
Author: C. M. Scott, Traveler Editor
Publication:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:ruNjoedxV3gJ:www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/wortman/People_and_Fa milies/WhistlerJohn.htm+Joh
Text: Arkansas City Traveler, September 19, 1883.
Mrs. Hubbell, of Cheyenne Agency, John Whistler and his niece, and Mrs. Capper, of Sac & Fox , and John Gooch, of Otoe, were here this week."
Title: 1890 U.S. Indian Census Schedule of the Indian TerritorySacs and Foxes
Author: United States Census Bureau
Publication: http://genealogytrails.com/oka/1890census_sacsfoxes.html
Text: Fannie Whistler abt 1848 Female Mrs. Koth
Whistler Pauline Whistler Koth Daughter abt 1878 Female
Guy Whistler Koth Son abt 1887 Male
Esther Whistler Koth Daughter abt 1890 Female
Julia Whistler Koth Daughter abt 1874 Female
Title: In Keokuk's Time On The Kansas Reservation
Author: C.R. Green - Olathe, Kansas
Publication: Copyright 1913 by C.R. Green, photocopies in possession of Jerry Whistler Snow
Text: Page 57 - Mrs. Fanny Whistler Nedeau owned and controlled more than 2000 acres, from which sh e drew a $2500 income yearly, with a nice $10,000 home at the Agency filled with objects of a rt and homekeeping. Here I made my home while there. Thanks to her generosity and efforts t o help me in my history gathering. Alfred Capper, Fanny and the children did not move from t he Kansas Reservation when the tribe went. They, in common with many other half-bloods, sett led on farms, the choicest on the Reserve, sold to them by the tribe in the days of the treat y of 1868 for $1.50 per acre. Capper's was a choice 160 acre Salt Creek Bottom tract one mil e east of Lyndon that they built a good house upon and lived there, and that remained in th e hands of the family for years. But in 1873 a general exodus of half bloods took place an d the Cappers went down to the Nation. Mrs. Capper and some of the children never returned . Mr. Capper did with two boys and directly went into storekeeping there in Lyndon and has b een at it ever since. A son, Charles, died when half-grown. John Capper, the remaining son , grew up and is one of the leading businessmen of Lyndon.
Title: The Leader, Guthrie, Oklahoma, July 29, 1894 - PASSING GLIMPSE OF LINCOLN COUNTY
Author: Editor
Publication: e-mail from Carolyn Simmons dated 29 Mar 2005
Text: The latch-string at the lovely agency home of General Thomas is always out, while Col. And Mr s. Patrick and their genial son, Lee Patrick, United States Commissioner, and his estimable w ife, spare no pains to entertain their friends. They reside in a large house at the entranc e to the agency, near the home of the congenial Indian trader. J.B. Charles. Among many othe r hospitable people, whom one is apt to meet during a visit to the agency, is Chief Keokuk, u ncle Billy Herr, agency preacher, who reels off stirring sermons every Sunday in both Englis h and Indian, and never Chief Keokuk fails to touch the l?duck story. Then there is Mrs. Fan nie Whistler, who resides with her charming daughter, Miss Pauline, in a pleasant and commodi ons home in the outskirts of the reservation; Mrs. Sarah Whistler, the Miles?s, Kirtleys, Sut tons, Hughes, and many others whose names the writer fails to recall just now.

There are four general merchandise stores at the agency, which keep everything in stock fro m hairpin to a roast beef and from a sombrero to a stick of chewing gum. The largest establi shment is owned by Hoffman, Charles & Conklin, who also conduct stores at Chandler, Cushing a nd in the Creek Nation; the others are owned by Mrs. Fannie Whistler, Chief Keokuk and Charle s Keokuk. Mrs. Whistler?s business is looked after by Major Kittle.
Title: 1900 Federal Census Index
Author: United States Census Bureau
Publication: Ancestry.com
Text: Keokuk Township, Lincoln Co, Oklahoma
Name Age Birthplace Relation Race Occupation
Eli G Nadnay 67 Indiana Head White General Merchandiser
Fannie Nadnay 51 Kansas Wife White
Guy Whestlar 12 Oklahoma Stepson White
Stella Combart 19 Nova Scotia Servant White
Frank Rennald 18 Nova Scotia Hired Man White
Walter C Battise 23 Kansas Boarder White

Name: Eli G Nad?Ay
Residence: Keokuk Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma Territory
Birth date: Nov 1832
Birth place: Indiana
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Spouse name: Fannie Nad?Ay
Spouse birth place: Kansas
Father birth place: Unknown
Mother birth place: Unknown
Race or color (expanded): White
Head-of-household name: Eli G Nad?Ay
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Years married: 35
Estimated marriage year: 1865
Occupation: Gen Merchandise
Enumeration district: 0121
Sheet number and letter: 1A
Household id: 4
Reference number: 14
GSU film number: 1241339
Image number: 00245
Collection: 1900 United States Census

Name: Fannie Nad?Ay
Titles:
Residence: Keokuk Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma Territory
Birth date: Apr 1849
Birth place: Kansas
Relationship to head-of-household: Wife
Spouse name: Eli G Nad?Ay
Spouse titles:
Spouse birth place: Indiana
Father name:
Father titles:
Father birth place:
Mother name:
Mother titles:
Mother birth place:
Race or color (expanded): Indian
Head-of-household name: Eli G Nad?Ay
Gender: Female
Marital status: Married
Years married: 35
Estimated marriage year: 1865
Mother how many children: 7
Number living children: 3
Indian Name: Meskose
Enumeration district: 0121
Sheet number and letter: 1A
Household id: 4
Reference number: 15
GSU film number: 1241339
Image number: 00245
Collection: 1900 United States Census

Name: Guy Whistler
Residence: Keokuk Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma Territory
Birth date: Aug 1887
Birth place: Oklahoma
Relationship to head-of-household: Step Son
Father birth place: Illinois
Mother birth place: Kansas
Race or color (expanded): Indian
Head-of-household name: Eli G Nad?Ay
Gender: Male
Marital status: Single
Enumeration district: 0121
Sheet number and letter: 1A
Household id: 4
Reference number: 16
GSU film number: 1241339
Image number: 00245
Collection: 1900 United States Census

Name: Stella Comfast
Residence: Keokuk Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma Territory
Birth date: Age 19
Birthplace: United States
Relationship to head-of-household: Servant
Father's birthplace: United States
Mother's birthplace: United States
Race or color (expanded): White
Head-of-household name: Eli G Nadray
Gender: Female
Marital status: Single
Enumeration district: 0121
Sheet number and letter: 1A
Household id: 4
Reference number: 17
GSU film number: 1241339
Image number: 00245
Collection: United States Census, 1900

Name: Frank Reynold
Residence: Keokuk Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma Territory
Birth date: Age 18
Birthplace: United States
Relationship to head-of-household: Hired Man
Father's birthplace: Unknown
Mother's birthplace: Unknown
Race or color (expanded): White
Head-of-household name: Eli G Nadray
Gender: Male
Marital status: Single
Enumeration district: 0121
Sheet number and letter: 1A
Household id: 4
Reference number: 17
GSU film number: 1241339
Image number: 00245
Collection: United States Census, 1900

Name: Walter C Battise
Titles:
Residence: Keokuk Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma Territory
Birth date: Mar 1877
Birthplace: Kansas
Relationship to head-of-household: Boarder
Father's birthplace:
Mother's birthplace: Kentucky
Race or color (expanded): Indian
Head-of-household name: Eli G Nad?Ay
Gender: Male
Marital status: Divorced
Occupation: Salesman
Enumeration district: 0121
Sheet number and letter: 1A
Household id: 4
Reference number: 19
GSU film number: 1241339
Image number: 00245
Collection: United States Census, 1900
Title: 1910 Federal Census Index
Author: United States Census Bureau
Publication: Ancestry.com
Text: Name: Fannie Nadeau
[Nadeau Fannie Indian]
Age in 1910: 64
Estimated birth year: abt 1846
Birthplace: Kansas
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Iowa
Mother's Birth Place: Iowa
Home in 1910: South Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
[Indian (Native American)]
Gender: Female
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Fannie Nadeau 64
Poline Hover 32
John Hover 10
Title: BLM Database - US Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC
Author: Electronic Land Patent Records
Publication: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/landrecords/
Text: Patentees: FANNIE W NEADEAU, formerly FANNIE WHISTLER, an Indian

State: OKLAHOMA
Acres: 163
Metes/Bounds: No

Issue Date: 3/30/1915
Land Office: Washington Ofc
Indian Allotment Nr.: 93
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: October 14, 1865: Indian Fee Patent (14 Stat. 703)

Document Nr.: 504187
Misc. Doc. Nr.: 18182-15
Accession/Serial Nr.: 465741
BLM Serial Nr.: OK NO S/N

Aliquot
Parts Sec./
Block Township Range Fract.
Section Meridian State Counties Survey
Nr.
1 24/ 11-N 5-E No Indian OK Pottawatomie,Seminole
4 24/ 11-N 5-E No Indian OK Pottawatomie,Seminole
5 24/ 11-N 6-E No Indian OK Pottawatomie
NENW 19/ 11-N 6-E No Indian OK Pottawatomie,Seminole
1 19/ 11-N 6-E No Indian OK Pottawatomie,Seminole
2 19/ 11-N 6-E No Indian OK Pottawatomie,Seminole
3 19/ 11-N 6-E No Indian OK Pottawatomie,Seminole
4 19/ 11-N 6-E No Indian OK Pottawatomie,Seminole
Title: Interview With Fanny Nadeu at Prague, Oklahoma November 21, 1918
Author: Charles R. Green - Lyndon, Osage County, Kansas
Publication: http://www.augustana.edu/library/SpecialCollections/nadeau.html
Text: Prague, Oklahoma, Nov. 21, 1918.In the midst of the present Sauk & Fox country.
Mrs. Fanny Nadeau (pronounced Neddo) tells of the olden indian times. She is Sauk indian [wit h some white blood]; speaks english perfectly, and her home too, is a model of American form .
"My mother [Julia Goodell] was a very interesting woman, and she used to tell a great deal ab out the early times and of the Black Hawk War. She spent some of her days at Prairie du Chie n in Wisconsin, on account of her daughter Mary, who is now the widow of Moses Keokuk. I reme mber mother telling when they crossed the Wisconsin river in the Black Hawk War, and she tol d of the beginning of the Black Hawk War. She said some of the Indians were sent with a whit e flag to meet the soldiers and make peace with them, and as they were going toward the soldi ers, two of the Indians ran ahead of the flag of truce and said they were going to be the fir st ones to shake hands with the white men, but they were shot by the white men. Black Hawk st ill insisted that they must not go to war, but his young men said they would not make peace n ow. Black Hawk's sons would take their father and throw him down on the ground and hold him d own, insisting that he should not make peace, that now they wanted war. Black Hawk seemed t o know that the white men would be too much for them. The young men threw him down twice an d would not let him hold up the white flag of truce.
"Now I was not posted enough in Indian and English too, to know the English names when she to ld it in Indian.
"Mother used to tell us they had no ammunition, and few rifles. They were not prepared for wa r. They had nothing to fight with. Yes, she must have been from the village on Rock River. I n her Indian way and language I could not tell where she had been living, but I guess that mu st be where she was from. I never knew from what country. I was grown before I knew what th e Missouri and Mississippi Rivers were. She would always speak of them in Indian. No, she did n't speak of "Sinisippi". I don't remember for sure how they called the Missouri, but I thin k it was Peekittoon. It means "always stirred up". After I had seen the Missouri river I coul d understand. The Mississippi they called "Mashethepo", meaning "The Big River."
I have a little bust here of Old Black Hawk. We think it's pretty good of him. Of course I di dn't know him, but this is a good type of Sac and Fox Indian. I bought it at a curio shop i n Oklahoma City. You know they shaved the head and left what they called a roach on the bac k of head, what you call a scalp lock. They had a little long braid in the middle of that sca lp lock.
"After the first fight of the the Indians danced over the scalps, but mother said she couldn 't take part in it, because her own little girl was half white and fair complexion, and one o f the soldier's scalps that they were dancing over was a light complexioned scalp.
"She was separated from her tribe and got with the Winnebago Indians, and by her having the w hite child they persuaded her to go to the Winnebago school, and she said she went there wit h her little girl, and that was where she learned to cut and sew and to talk some English . I don't know where that Indian School was. Lieut. Hill at Fort Crawford, adopted her littl e daughter Mary, and she was sent to an infant school at Fort Crawford, a school for little f olks, and she remembers when Jefferson Davis eloped with Zachiary Taylor's daughter. She wa s a young girl at the Fort at that time. Her father's name was Mitchell, an officer or trader , but Lieut. Hill adopted her after the Black Hawk War, and when the Civil War broke out, Lie ut. Hill joined the Confederate Army and was killed in the war, and Mr. Moore was Mary's guar dian.
Mary's mother was Julia, but her Indian name was Ann-na-mo-tha. I was her adopted daughter an d her niece. My mother and Mary's mother were sisters, but my mother died when I was a baby , and her mother adopted me, and so we are thought to be sisters.
When a family loses a child, a son or a daughter, they always take another child by adoption , with great ceremony. Old Moses Keokuk adopted me for his daughter when he lost his daughter . No, the adopted child does not go home with the adopted parents, it goes back to his own ho me, but the adopted parents look after her and if she loses her parents they take her to thei r home. The adopted parents make the most beautiful clothes and dress you up in these fines t clothes, if their deceased child had a pony, they will set you on that pony and send you t o your home. I remember the first time I was adopted. I told mother I wouldn't go. I knew I h ad to dress up in full Indian finery, and the idea of being made so prominent scared me, bu t I had to go, because when you are selected by a family it is compulsory to go. I have bee n adopted several times. No, I don't know that they select the most attractive child in the t ribe, but it's according to fancy, according to their own notion. They may select a child t o resemble the one who dies. I know that my adoptive mothers would always bring me the firs t strawberries they would find. They would do anything to make me think of them. I would thin k so much of my adoptive mother because she would be so kind to me, and old Mr. Keokuk, if he 'd get two or three venison hams, a hunter would come in with venison, and if he got any he' d tell Mary to send it to me. Of course I'd look out for him too, if I had something nice.
I am going to lend you a number of pictures which you say you would like to copy. Here is on e of old Chief Chick-o-skuk. Some years ago the white authorities tried to break down all Ind ian customs, and they forbade the traders to sell the Indians any Indian clothes. It was requ ired that all should wear white men's clothes. Chick-o-skuk was the last chief. He had neve r had on a pair of pants or a vest in his life, and he arose in the Council and said to the a gent, 'Tell the Father that I can't wear white men's clothes. I can't at all dress myself i n them. I can't put on that crupper (referring to pants.) I'll promise to persuade the youn g men to wear white men's clothes, but let me live like the Great Spirit intended I should, a n Indian. Let me have my bow and arrows, and not the white man's gun.' I cried when he made t he talk. I couldn't help it, he was so in earnest. Yes, I was right there in the council too . He told it in Indian and it was interpreted to them. It was at the time when the commission ers wanted the Indians to take their land allotments instead of holding lands in one body. Th e poor old man lived to his death as an Indian. They built a house for him and he lived in i t some, but he died in his Indian house.
"It's hard on our Indian young people to be takem away to school and then come home and be di fferent from what they were before. Their original home influence is Indian, and it's hard fo r them to live like the white man. I feel so sorry for the Carlisle and Haskell Indians. Th e girls are there eight or ten years, with all modern conveniences, and when they come back t hey can't have things in their homes that way, and they come back strangers in their own coun try and tribe, and their own families say they don't know us. I spoke of the artist Catlin' s representation of the Slave Dance, in which the Indian young men obligate themselves to d o menial service to which Mrs. Nadeau replies, "When we have our big dances and big feasts th e men always do all the cooking. They clean the fowl and do all the work. The women are prese nt and eat."
I asked Mrs. Nadeau about some of the old prominent Indians, and she said: "Chief Powieshie k was our relative". He was my mother's own uncle." I am to send her a picture of him. My sis ter who died had a large picture of him, which her husband got in Washington. She knew of Pas he[pu]ho and of the Winnebago prophet. She could not remember Logan Kakaque's father's name . She did not know of Wapello, Tiamah, Wakechi nor Neopope. Mrs. Nadeau's grandson, a boy o f 18 years or so, who is staying with her today, says he remembers the last game of ball whe n he was a youngster. It is forbidden now, they say because it was so rough a game an India n sometimes got killed in it, and they spoke of their dances at the stamping ground and sai d they would beat the drum all night. Mr. Vlasak, my chauffer, says he has heard the drum a t Prague, a distance of 10 or 11 miles from the stamping ground where it was being played.
Title: Oklahoma Historical SocietyNewspaper Index Card Database
Author: OHS Volunteers
Publication: http://www.okhistory.org/wpa/form.php?table_name=WPA&function=details&where_field=ID&where_va lue=9365
Text: ID 9365
Last_Name Whistler
First_Name John
subject1 Sac & Fox Indians
Subject Matrimony
Newspaper Cheyenne Transporter
Date 1884-12-29
Page 1
Column 2
Notes Fannie Goodel; Indian Trader

ID 9364
Last_Name Goodel
First_Name Fannie
subject1 Matrimony
Subject Sac & Fox Indians
Newspaper Cheyenne Transporter
Date 1884-12-29
Page 1
Column 2
Notes John Whistler; Indian Trader


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Fanny married John Harrison Whistler Jr on 25 Dec 1884 in Sac and Fox Agency, Indian Territory.