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Aleck Brown, Chickasaw
Aleck Brown Et Al.,
Chickasaws. Dawes Commission, No. 87
September 6, 1898. Application made at
Stonewall, Ind. T., for enrollment of Aleck
Brown.
January 22, 1998. Further testimony taken,
in which it is shown that applicant is a
citizen by blood of the Chickasaw Nation,
and that he is a grandson of Kelo Brown,
whose name appears at No. 4972 on the
finally approved roll of citizens by blood
of the Chickasaw Nation. It appears that the
mother of this applicant is Temene or Tamena
and that her name appears on the Chickasaw
tribal rolls as a full-blood Chickasaw
Indian, and that she died some time between
1890 and 1895.
Sibbie or Seber Johnson, half sister of
claimant, made original application at
Stonewall, Ind. T., September 6, 1898.
Applicant was born and raised in Nation.
January 9, 1906. Further hearing before the
commission, at which time it was alleged
that Seber Johnson was entitled to
enrollment as a citizen by blood of the
Chickasaw Nation. The records show that the
applicant appeared to be a full-blood Indian
and that she testified through an
interpreter. It appears that she is a half
sister of Aleck Brown and that her mother
and his mother was Temene or Tamena that her
father is Kaokubby Lewis, deceased. Her half
sisters and brothers by the same mother,
Kitty Smith, Holmes, Carrie, and Ebatambby
Johnson, appear opposite Nos. 4917, 4919,
4920 and 4921, respectively, upon the final
approved roll of citizens by blood of the
Chickasaw Nation.
February 26, 1907. Application for
enrollment refused by commission; denied
because applicant's name does not appear on
the Chickasaw tribal rolls.
March 4, 1907. Action of commission was
approved by the department.
Attorneys for claimant respectfully submit
that as both Aleck Brown and Sibbie (or
Seber) Johnson are children of Temene, or
Tamena, a full-blood Chickasaw enrolled by
the tribes, and as the other children of
Temene or Tamena are duly enrolled on the
final Chickasaw rolls by blood, that
claimants are in equity and good conscience
clearly entitled to enrollment. Copy of the
decision and the examination records
herewith attached.
Respectfully submitted.
Ballinger & Lee
Record of Examination
In the matter of the application of Aleck
Brown and Sober Johnson for enrollment as
Chiekasaw freedmen.
Aleck Brown being sworn says (Stonewall,
September 6, 1898): I am 28 years old. My
mother's name was Temenee. I have a sister
Seber Johnson.
Becky Mukluntubby being sworn says
(Stonewall, Sept. 6, 1898): I know Aleck
Brown and Seber Johnson. Their mother,
Temenee, belonged to Shoshee. They went
north at the beginning of the war and
returned in four or five years. They
returned to Fort Gibson in 1865 and remained
there until the fall of 1866.
Aaron Newberry being sworn says (Stonewall,
Sept. 6, 1898): I know Aleck Brown and Seber
Johnson. They returned to Fort Gibson in
1865 and remained there through the winter
and until the fall, 1866.
Ashway Porter being sworn says (Stonewall.
Sept. 6, 1898): I am 44 years old. I know
Temenee the mother of Aleck Brown and Seber
Johnson. She was a slave and was owned by a
man by the name of Logan. He was the last
one of the heirs of the family to whom she
belonged. Logan died during the war. When he
died they lived around with the people and
went north into Kansas. They returned the
year after the surrender. I can not tell
whether it was the year of the surrender or
the year after, but when the news of peace
came, they returned. I do not know what time
of the year it was. They remained at Fort
Gibson about one year. They were there one
winter and one summer. They were there the
summer after the winter they came. The
following winter they returned here.
Simon Wolf being sworn says (Stonewall,
Sept. 7, 1898): I know Aleck Brown and Seber
Johnson. I know their mother, Temenee. I
have known her 40 years. She belonged to
Logan. He died in Kansas in 1802. Temenee
was then like an orphan and wandered around.
Sometimes she was with me and sometimes with
others that went to Kansas. They came back
and stopped In the Creek Nation after peace
was made, and remained there until 1867.
Some of those who went North returned here
near Boggy, and one of them was killed. The
others then went back North. It was said
that they were going to kill all that had
gone North, and for that reason they did not
come down into this country. For that reason
I did not come here myself.
This woman Temenee was the slave of Logan,
who died in 1862. Her two children, Aleck
Brown and Seber Johnson, are part Indian. It
appears that she did not return to the
Territory from Kansas, where they had gone
during the war, until 1867.
[Indorsed: Aleck Brown and Seber Johnson. In
re application for enrollment as Chickasaw
freedmen.]
Department Of The Interior
Commission To The Five Civilized Tribes.
Muskogee, Ind. T., January 9, 1906
In the matter of the alleged application for
the enrollment of Sibbie Johnson as a
citizen by blood of the Chickasaw Nation.
Applicant not represented by attorney.
No appearance on behalf of the attorneys for
the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.
This testimony taken subject to protest of
the attorneys for the Nations. The applicant
being a full blood, personally presents
herself before the commissioner at his
office at Muskogee. Ind. T., on this 9th day
of January, 1906, being accompanied by John
Finley.
The applicant. Sibbie Johnson, being
first duly sworn through John Finley, duly
qualified Interpreter, testified as follows:
Examination by commissioner:
Q. What is your name?-
A. Sibbie.
Q. Sibbie what?-
A. Johnson.
Q. How old are you?-
A. Thirty-five.
Q. Where do you live?-
A. Choctaw Nation.
Q. What is your post office.-
A. Citra.
Q. Where was yon born?-
A. Canadian.
Q. In the Choctaw Nation?-
A. Chickasaw Nation.
Q. You mean you was born on the Canadian
River?-
A. On the Chickasaw side.
Q. What is your mother's name?-
A. Ta-me-na.
Q. What is your father's name?-
A. Scott Johnson.
Q. Is your father living?-
A. Scott Johnson is my step daddy. My daddy
is dead.
Q. What is your father's name?-
A. I don't know. I never seen my daddy, I
was little when my daddy died, but his name
was Kaokubby Lewis.
Q. You say Scott Johnson is your stepfather;
is that right?-
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Is Holmes Johnson your half brother?-
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Now what is the name of your other half
brothers and sisters?-
A. Kittie.
Q. What is her name now?-
A. That's all I know.
Q. Don't she go by the name of Kittie Smith
now?-
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Who Is Carrie Johnson.-
A. Sister.
Q. Who is Ebatomby Johnson?-
A. Brother.
Q. Have you ever made application to the
Dawes Commission to be enrolled as a
Chickasaw?-
A. No, sir.
Q. Where was you living in 1898 when the
Dawes Commission was enrolling the
Chickasaws in the Chickasaw Nation,-
A. Living in the Chiekasaw Nation.
Q. And you didn't go to the Dawes Commission
to be enrolled?-
A. I been there.
Q. Where?-
A. Went to Stonewall.
Q. Did you go to the Dawes Commission when
they were at Stonewall?- A. I been there.
Q. What did they do when you was there';-
A. I don't know what they said. Nobody there
was old enough to tell anything. Said she
didn't know what to say.
Q. You say you have lived in the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Nations all your life?-
A. Born from the Chickasaw Nation and raised
in the Chickasaw Nation: father's back in
the Choctaw Nation.
Q. Have you ever drawn any money that was
paid to the Choctaws or Chickasaws?-
A. No, sir.
Q. Ever try to draw any money?-
A. No, sir.
Q. Was your mother, Ta-me-na, a Chickasaw
Indian?-
A. She was half Chickasaw.
Q. What else?-
A. Daddy is a Chickasaw.
Q. Not talking about her daddy. (To
interpreter.) She said her mother was half
Chickasaw. What else was she?-
A. Half Chickasaw and in English I think
they call it freedman: half freedman.
Q. Was you ever a slave?-
A. I don't know nothing about that.
Q. Was your mother a slave?-
A. I don't know.
Q. Who was your father?-
A. Father was a Choctaw-full-blood Choctaw.
Q. Was you ever known by any other name than
Sibbie Johnson?-
A. No.
Q. Have you got any brothers and sisters
that were enrolled as Choctaws, the children
of Kaokubby Lewis?-
A. That's all; hasn't got any more. I am the
only daughter.
This applicant has every appearance of being
a full-blood Indian: unable to speak the
English language, and this examination has
been conducted through a duly sworn
Chickasaw interpreter.
Applicant claims that she is a full-blood
Chickasaw Indian, born in the Chickasaw
Nation, and has resided continuously In the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations since the date
of her birth. She alleges that she was never
known by any other name than Sibbie Johnson,
and a careful examination of the tribal
rolls of the Chickasaw Nation in the
possession of this office fails to disclose
that she has ever been enrolled as a citizen
by blood of the Chickasaw Nation.
While the applicant claims to have been
before the Commission to the Five Civilized
Tribes at Stonewall, Ind. T. in 189, there
is no record of any application ever having
been made by her or on her behalf for
enrollment as a citizen of the Chickasaw
Nation prior to December 25, 1902.
Special reference is made in this matter to
Chickasaw roll card, field No. 132 and to
the name of Scott Johnson upon the final
roll of Chickasaws by blood, opposite No.
390 and whom the applicant states is her
stepfather, and to Kittie Smith. Holmes,
Carrie, and Ebatamby Johnson, Chickasaw roll
by blood, Nos. 4917, 4919, 4920 and 4921,
respectively, the children of Scott Johnson
and Ta-me-na, deceased, and whom the
applicant alleges are her half brothers and
sisters by the same mother, Ta-me-na.
Ta-me-na appears upon the records of this
office as having been a full-blood Chickasaw
Indian and to have died some time between
1890 and 1895.
Albert G. McMillam, being duly sworn, states
that as stenographer to the Commissioner to
the Five Civilized Tribes, he reported the
proceedings had in the above-entitled cause
on the 9th day of January. 1906, and that
the above and foregoing is a full, true, and
correct transcript of his stenographic notes
thereof.
Albert G. McMillam.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th
day of January 1906.
Myran White, Notary Public.
Department Of The Interior,
Commissioner To The Five Civilized Tribes,
Muskogee, Ind. T., January 22, 1906.
In the matter of the application of Aleck
Brown for enrollment as a Chickasaw freedman
Applicant appears in person.
No proof of service of notice of the
submission of testimony in the above-
entitled cause on the attorneys for the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations is presented.
Aleck Brown, being first duly sworn,
testifies as follows through a duly sworn
Interpreter:
By the Commissioner:
Q. What is your name?-
A. Aleck Brown.
Q. How old are you?-
A. Thirty-eight or thirty-nine.
Q. Where do you live?-
A. Choctaw Nation.
Q. How long have you lived there?-
A. I live there on the line of the Choctaw
and Chiekasaw Nations.
Q. How long have you lived there?-
A. Born there and raised there.
Q. Have you a sister named Seber Johnson?-
A. Yes, sir; Sibbie Johnson.
Q. Is she living?-
A. Yes.
Q. How old Is she?-
A. We haven't got it down in years, but I
think she is about 30.
Q. Is she younger than you.-
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where "was she born?-
A. In the Chickasaw Nation.
Q. Were you and your sister Seber or Sibbie
Johnson both born after the slaves were
freed?-
A. Yes long afterwards.
Q. What is your father's Name?-
A. Mitchell Brown.
Q. Is he living?-
A. No.
Q. How long has he been dead?-
A. He died when I was a little baby; I don't
know when.
Q. What was Mitchell Brown?-
A. I didn't see him: I was a little baby.
Q. Do you know anything about your father?-
A. I heard the name, that's all.
Q. Don't you know anything about him?-
A. No, sir.
Q. Who was the father of your sister Seber
or Sibbie Johnson?-
A. Scott Johnson.
Q. Then Sibbie Johnson is only your half
sister?-
A. Had a different father, but same mother.
Q. Who was your mother?-
A. Tamenee Johnson.
Q. Is she the "mother of Sibbie Johnson,
too?-
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You and this half sister of yours. Sibbie
Johnson, claim to be entitled to enrollment
as Chickasaw freedmen do you not?-
A. We claim to be Chickasaw by blood.
"Q. Have you or this sister of yours ever in
any manner been recognized by the Chickasaws
as Chickasaw Indians; ever drawn any money
as Chickasaws?-
A. No; we have not.
Q. Never been on any roll as a Chickasaw,
have you;-
A. I never drew any money.
Q. Was you ever enrolled with the Chickasaw
Indians when they were making the roll?-
A. Never was on the rolls.
Q. Now, you say you don't know anything
about your father; is that correct?-
A. I never seen him.
Q. Don't know who he was?-
A. Don't know who he was-only just heard his
name.
0- Who was the father of your half sister,
Sibbie Johnson?-
A. He was named Johnson.
Q. Do you know anything about him?-
A. I know him-Scott Johnson.
Q. Who was Scott Johnson?-
A. Chickasaw.
Q. Where is Sibbie Johnson now?-
A. She is living in the Choctaw Nation now.
Q. Did she ever draw any money?-
A. No, sir.
Q. Was she ever enrolled as a Chickasaw-as a
citizen.
A. No, sir.
Q. Who was your mother?-
A. Temenee Johnson.
Q. Was she a slave?-
A. I don't know.
Q. Do you know anything about your mother?-
A. I know my mother.
Q. Is she living?-
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where is she living?-
A. Chickasaw Nation.
Q. Does she go by the name of Temenee
Johnson now?-
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where is your mother living?-
A. Chickasaw Nation.
Q. Has she ever made an application to be
enrolled?-
A. I don't know.
Witness excused.
This applicant, Aleck Brown, has the
appearance of being an admixture of Indian
and Negro blood. He is unable to speak the
English language, and the examination has
been conducted through a Chickasaw
interpreter. It appears that he has been a
member of the so-called "Snake'' faction in
the Chickasaw Nation, of which his mother,
Temenee Johnson, is also a member. It does
not appear that any application has been
made by Temenee Johnson for enrollment as a
Chickasaw Nation or Chickasaw freedman.
Olga Petroff, a stenographer to the
Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes,
on oath states that she correctly reported
the proceedings had in the above- entitled
cause and that the foregoing is a full,
true, and correct transcript of her
stenographic notes thereof.
Olga Petroff.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th
day of January, 190G.
Myran White, Notary Public.
Department Of The Interior, Commissioner
To The Five Civilized Tribes
In tho matter of the application for the
enrollment of Alex Brown et al. as Chickasaw
freedmen.
Decision
It appears from the record herein that on
September 6, 1898, application was made to
the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes
for the enrollment of Aleck Brown and Seber
(or Sibbie) Johnson as Chickasaw freedmen.
It further appears from the record herein
that Aleck Brown was born in about the year
1867 and is the son of Mitchell Brown (now
deceased) and Temenee (or Tamena) Johnson
(now deceased); and that the applicant.
Seber (or Sibbie) Johnson was born about the
year 1870 and is the daughter of Kaokubby
Lewis (now deceased), an alleged Chickasaw
by blood, and Temenee (or Tamena) Johnson,
above mentioned.
It is alleged on behalf of the applicants
that Temenee (or Tamena) Johnson was during
the War of the Rebellion the slave of a
Chickasaw Indian. The evidence, however,
shows that at the date of the treaty of Fort
Smith she Was not a resident of either the
Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations.
It does not appear from the record herein or
from the records in the possession of this
office that either of said applicants has
ever been recognized or enrolled by the
Chickasaw tribal authorities as a member of
the Chickasaw tribe or admitted to Chickasaw
citizenship by any duly constituted
authority.
I am, therefore, of the opinion that the
application of the enrollment of Aleck Brown
and Seber (or Sibble) Johnson as Chickasaw
freedmen and as citizens by blood of the
Chickasaw Nation should be denied, under the
provisions of the act of Congress approved
June 2JJ, 1898 (30 Stats., 495), as It is so
ordered.
______ ______ , Commissioner.
Muskogee, Ind. T., February 26, 1907.
Notes About the Book:
Source: Five Civilized Tribes In Oklahoma, Reports of the Department of the
Interior and Evidentiary Papers in support of S. 7625, a Bill for the Relief of
Certain Members of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, Sixty-second Congress,
Third Session, Published 1913, by the Department of the Interior, United States.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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