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Northern Division Family Groups
The localized family groups of which I have information are all in the
northern division, to which White Moon belongs. He is less familiar with the
family groupings in the southern division; he opines that in the southern
division there is less concentration by family.
Kuhaiyu
Here there are four houses occupied by several descendants of Gen. I, 1 and
2, White Moon's paternal grandparents.
House 1: Enoch Hoag (Gen. I, 7), chief; and his wife, a Delaware; and their
daughter and son-
in-law. (Their son lives at Lookeba, his wife's home.)
House 2: Sam Houston (Gen. I, 24); and his wife, Bertha Deer, a
Muskogee, and their
daughter; and Leg-shaker (Gen. I, 46), maternal cousin of Sam Houston.
House 3: Seywit' (Gen. I, 28); and her husband, Little-boy; and their
son. (Visited by her
sister, Little-girl and family; but Littlegirl lives at her husband's
settlement, Mrs. Peach
Orchard's.)
House 4: Little-black-head (Gen. I, 44) and his wife, Elsie Hendricks (Gen.
I, 45, probably the
daughter of Gen. I, 21); and their child. (Visited by his mother, Mrs.
Curly; but Mrs. Curly
lives at Mrs. Peach Orchard's.)
In this settlement there is a fifth house, now empty, but formerly
occupied by cousins of Enoch Hoag. There is also an earth house, a square
dugout, with peak roof of timber,1 in which before he died lived
Biskuachu, Sam Houston's father's parallel cousin.
Comparison with the table, Genealogy I, shows that the settlement is
composed of the descendants of two sisters and of two brothers, of whom one
survives. A female cousin of theirs (Gen. I, 21) and her family used to live in
this settlement.
Kudadosa ("Hill surrounded by trees")2
This is the settlement of White Moon's mother's people, in which he grew up.
The settlement consists of four houses, in which live the descendants of a
sister and brother and of the brother's wife's sister or parallel cousin.
House 1: Sho'sin (Gen. II, 6); and her husband, David Shemamy; and the
children of a daughter deceased.
House 2: Ch´'uu (Gen. II, 15); and her husband, Tom Williams (her
two first husbands also lived
here); and her deceased daughter's son. (Her daughter and
son-in-law lived here.)
Before their marriage all the children of a deceased female
cousin (Gen. II, 19) of
Ch´'uu lived with her. Of these Seyhut' (Gen. II, 45)
and her husband and children visit
Ch´'uu , but Seyhut' now lives at Nahaine, her second
husband's home. With Ch´'uu also
lives Grasshopper (Gen. II, 5), an old man whose relationship is
obscure. He went to
live with Ch´'uu after his wife died. He had no
children.
House 3: Belongs to Chu"u°; it harbors Seyhut' and her family en visite.
House 4: Sachanatih (Gen. II, 14), widow of Ch´'uu brother; and
her children, a daughter and her
husband and children, and three unmarried daughters. Her married
son lives at Spring
Creek, but with his family is often at his mother's.
NaDacGathaGaiyu' (at White-bread's) or Nakahdi (at the chief's)
(one mile east of Kudadosa)
Here are two houses in one of which live the widow of Chief White-bread,
her daughter and son-in-law, Ralph Maro'; in the other of which live the old
lady's daughter's daughter, Cho'otan' or Grace Aiken and her husband,
Gunchaiyo (Whitehead) or Paul Frank.
Nahaine
(Near Minco)
Here some of the Haine-speaking people had lived; but they moved away;
the only survivor is
Cry-baby or Ross Maro' (Gen. II, 47), brother of Ralph Marc' who lives with
his wife at Chief
White-bread's.
House 1: Ross Maro'; and his wife Seyhut'; and their children; and Maro"s
father, "when he is at home," not on the move trailing gaming parties and death
feasts. The maternal aunt as well as the mother of the Maro' brothers had lived
here.
House 2: Levi Frank (Nehaihi, Levi) and his wife.
House 3: Chonest'iti, Sam Black, who lives alone. As far as known he was
never married.
Naikutsi3 or Spring Creek
The localized family groups of which I have information are all
in the northern division, to which White Moon belongs. He is less familiar with
the family groupings in the southern division; he opines that in the southern
division there is less concentration by family.
Kuhaiyu
Here there are four houses occupied by several descendants of Gen. I, 1 and
2, White Moon's paternal grandparents.
House 1: Enoch Hoag (Gen. I, 7), chief; and his wife, a Delaware; and their
daughter and son-
in-law. (Their son lives at Lookeba, his wife's home.)
House 2: Sam Houston (Gen. I, 24); and his wife, Bertha Deer, a
Muskogee, and their
daughter; and Leg-shaker (Gen. I, 46), maternal cousin of Sam Houston.
House 3: Seywit' (Gen. I, 28); and her husband, Little-boy; and their
son. (Visited by her
sister, Little-girl and family; but Littlegirl lives at her husband's
settlement, Mrs. Peach
Orchard's.)
House 4: Little-black-head (Gen. I, 44) and his wife, Elsie Hendricks (Gen.
I, 45, probably the
daughter of Gen. I, 21); and their child. (Visited by his mother, Mrs.
Curly; but Mrs. Curly
lives at Mrs. Peach Orchard's.)
In this settlement there is a fifth house, now empty, but formerly
occupied by cousins of Enoch Hoag. There is also an earth house, a square
dugout, with peak roof of timber,1 in which before he died lived
Biskuachu, Sam Houston's father's parallel cousin.
Comparison with the table, Genealogy I, shows that the settlement is
composed of the descendants of two sisters and of two brothers, of whom one
survives. A female cousin of theirs (Gen. I, 21) and her family used to live in
this settlement.
Kudadosa ("Hill surrounded by trees")2
This is the settlement of White Moon's mother's people, in which he grew up.
The settlement consists of four houses, in which live the descendants of a
sister and brother and of the brother's wife's sister or parallel cousin.
House 1: Sho'sin (Gen. II, 6); and her husband, David Shemamy; and the
children of a daughter deceased.
House 2: Lottie Pardon (Gen. II, 43) daughter of Minnie; and her husband Tila.
House 3: Helen Pardon, daughter of Minnie; and her husband, Thompson
Williams; and Charlie
Williams, younger brother of Thompson Williams. (Cousins, Nettie
Pardon (Gen. I, 37)
and Mrs. Sam Binger (Gen. II, 41) grew up here.)
House 4: Mother of Thompson and Charlie Williams; and her husband Ba'tshush
(Tail-cut-off)
or K'akitsaiyet' (Chewed-up) or Benjamin Franklin.
House 5: Kaiyot'iti and his wife.
House 6: Sadie, the daughter of Kaiyot'iti's wife; and her husband Frank
Sargent (Gen. I, 19).
House 7: Johnson Coffee; and his wife who is the sister of Frank Sargent.
House 8: Little-girl, daughter of Kaiyot'iti and his wife; and her husband
Chanatih (Gen. II, 30)
and child.
House 9: Little-old-woman (Gen. II, 32), sister of Chanatih; and her husband,
Little-brave; and
two sons, Roy and Bill-when they are not at Kudadosa.
House 10: George Shiyatsi (Youth), related to Little-brave and his father,
Hadunko (Shorty).
House 11: Simona who is maternal uncle to George Shiyatsi; and his wife.
Naigaswit'iti, Boggy Creek
Here in separate houses live or lived three sisters, whose mother,
Sadipa, Mrs. Long, lived here. The sisters are Sawashish, Mrs. Osage, wife of
Washish, Osage, who is, however, a Caddo; Mrs. Mike Williams; Sabinsin, mother
of Vincent Johnson and Anna Johnson. Sabinsin has moved away, to Mrs. Peach
Orchard's where she lives with her second husband, Tsa'bata, Mr. Fish or Charlie
Adams (Gen. II, 22). Here also lived White-bead, the mother of four men who
still live here. White-bead herself has moved away. The four men are Stanley (Washish)
and Jerome Age and Frank and Joe White-bead.
House 1: Sawashish; and her husband Washish or Stanley Age.
House 2: Mrs. Mike Williams; and her husband, Mike Williams.
House 3: Jerome Age, brother of Stanley Age; and his wife.
House 4: T'ahsisi or Frank White-bead; and his wife, Lyda Penn.
House 5: Joe White-bead, brother of Frank White-bead; and his wife.
House 6: Hadoshkatsi, Stiff (commonly translated Mr. Strong-man). He is a
kinsman of Sadipa
and of White-bead. Inferably Sadipa and White-bead are related.
Stiff is a widower,
living alone.
House 7: His daughter, Bessie Wolf, and her husband, a White man.
House 8: Gantino, Red-head, or Patrick Miller, related to Stiff and to Sadipa
and his wife, a
White woman.
Nasakaas, at Mrs. Peach Orchard's4
Here lives, excepting one household, a single family connection, the Shemamys
who are Muskogee.
House l: Sakaas, Mrs. Peach Orchard, widow of Tom Shemamy.
House 2: Daughter of Mrs. Peach Orchard; and her husband, Tsa'wetsita (Mr.
Wichita, he is a
Wichita); and their children.
House 3: John Shemamy or Tsa'owisha, brother of Tom Shemamy; and his wife,
Saowisha; and
their son, James Shemamy or Dwi'sha and daughter-in-law,
Little-girl (Gen. I, 26).
House 4: Sister of John and Tom Shemamy (also David Shemamy, see Gen. II, 7) and
her
widowed daughter, Mrs. Curly or Margaret Deer (Gen. I, 14).
House 5: Sam Binger (Binka) (Gen. II, 40) who is a connection through marriage
of the
Shemamys; and his wife.
House 6: Tsa'bata, Mr. Fish or Charlie Adams (Gen. II, 22); and his wife,
Sabinsin.
(Northeast of White-bread's)
This is the home of two sisters, Spibook.
House 1: Spibook; and her husband, Bob Dunlip (Gen. I, 5).5
House 2: Nyuda6 ( Spibook); and her husband, Charlie
Pardon.
Another sister who lived here died. (James Spibook, their brother, has also
died. He was the first husband of Helen Pardon, sister of Charlie Pardon. See
Spring Creek.)
K'ok'anina (Water-lying lake) (South of Binger)
House 1: Widow of Hina'kahdi (Snow-chief); and a daughter, who is separated
from her
husband.
House 2: Oldest daughter of a daughter of Snow-chief's widow; and her husband,
James
Williams (son of Tom Williams, Gen. II, 18) whose first wife was a
White woman.
House 3: Dohkish (Sorrel) (Gen. I, 20) related to Snow-chief family; and his
second wife,
Sakiansis; and, sometimes, his son, Leg-shaker (Gen. I, 46).
House 4: Laury Dunlip; and his wife; and his wife's mother. (Laury Dunlip is
brother of Bob
Dunlip, Gen. I, 5.)
House 5: Joe Weller; and his wife; and daughter.
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1 Such houses are common, they are for storage of pumpkins, etc. They
are not to be identified with the circular earth lodges formerly lived in.
2 The description is realistic.
3 Na, locative; ikut', ocean, lake; t’si, diminutive
5 He had once been married to a Shawnee, Annie Pecan, and in 1893
they had attempted unsuccessfully to introduce the Caddo Ghost dance to the
Shawnee (Voegelin).
6 See Mooney, where she is mentioned as a Ghost dance singer.
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