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I wrote my article, Are You Part Cherokee?, several years ago. I intended the message to be truthful, but with a touch of tongue-in-cheek humor. Most of the feedback I receive is from other native Americans who either agree with me or who thank me for publishing the idea online. Some even tell me about […]

Long after my grandmother died, one of my cousins began to compile some of our family history. One of the stories involved my grandmother’s half-sister, Josephine Caleb, who married Frank Grinnell and had a daughter who became a film star as Rose Marie Darling. When I took over the project, I tried to […]

The photographs attributed to the Hamm family were contributed by Bonnie Luckey, a descendant of Jacob Hamm, who was Mary Belle Hamm Caleb’s father. The photographs attributed to the Church family were contributed by Clio Caleb Church.
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Chippewa-Munsee Tribal Photograph, 1900
(Kansas […]

Some of these photographs are part of the Smithsonian Institution Archival, Manuscript, and Photographs Collections. The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) allows for “casual, non-commercial redistribution” of these images. Please read their copyright statement before downloading any of those images from this page. Also, refer to the their Catalog Record for the complete reference […]

Elizabeth Wilson Spooner
Elizabeth appears in the Tribal Photo of 1900. Her extended family genealogy may be found in the Chippewa-Munsee Genealogy database. Reprinted from the pages of the The Ottawa Herald, 27 July 1931.
OTTAWA — Mrs. Elizabeth Spooner died yesterday. A Munsee Indian, she came to this county in 1859 — Funeral tomorrow morning.
Mrs. […]

Reprinted from the “World of Farming” section of the Tulsa World 25 October 1965.
There was no by-line.
Indian Rancher Proves Up to Name ‘Real Fellow’
RED ROCK — His Otoe name is Woc She Gay Chee. But to his friends, and he has lots of them, he is known as Dewey Dailey. His name means Real Fellow, […]

Dewey Washington Dailey
Dewey was born 7 Oct 1899 on the Otoe-Missouria Reservation in Oklahoma Territory [although all later documents report his birth year as 1901, tribal censuses clearly show that Dewey was born in 1899]. He was the son of Charles W. Dailey and Belle Robideaux Dailey, who had migrated with the tribe from Nebraska […]

Most of these photographs are part of the Smithsonian Institution Archival, Manuscript, and Photographs Collections. The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) allows for “casual, non-commercial redistribution” of these images. Please read their copyright statement before downloading any images from this page. Also, refer to the their Catalog Record for the complete reference citation. Please […]