Wano Government Documents
Date1800-1900
Classificationslevel 2: series
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center Archive and Research Division
Object number2005.44.23-65
Description2005.44 Wano Family Manuscripts2005.44_5 Government Documents [Wano]
•2005.44.23-25 group of document copies; copy of letter from Mayetta Kansas, Sept. 9, 1911 to E. L. Seymour from Peter pah-nah-nee, in regards to how his family heirs from Peter the Great his wife Julia’s uncle; copy of letter dated Sept. 22, 1911 from Peter Pah-nah-nee in regards to his deceased wife Julia; family history of Allotment No. 648 of Peter Shipshe wahno, other sur names Bruno. 3 pgs.
•2005.44.26-28 copy of letter/document dated May 9, 1883 to Maj. J.V. Carter U.S. Indian Agent, San and Fox Agency, I.T. from the Citizen Band of Pottawatomi’s in reference to the Indian agent allowing white husbands to be enrolled into tribe and signed by group of 11 men which Shipshewano was one. 3 pgs.
•2005.44.29-33 copy of United States Department of the Interior Summary of Report on Heirs of Ellen Long (Wano) Allottee No, 185 [Wyandotte] other sur names Wano, Fulton, Nunley, LeClair, Bruno; McConnell. 5 pgs.
•2005.44.34-38 copy of United States Department of the Interior Summary of Report on Heirs of Pos-so Ship she wa no Allottee No. 627 other sur names Wano, Long. 5 pgs.
•2005.44.39-50 group of documents; copy of document from the Department of the Interior dated Feb. 3, 1917, approval of Heirship in the estate of Peter Ship-she-wano Citizen Potawatomi allottee No. 648; letter from the Department of the Interior to A.W. Leech Supt. Shawnee Agency, in reference to application for patent in fee for the heirs of Peter Ship-she-wano; copy of Allotment or Estate Record for Allot. No. 648 for Peter Ship She Wa No; copy of Receipt for Patent for the heirs for Peter Ship-she-wano; letter from Shawnee Indian School to Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated March 7, 1917 in reference to disbursement of gas and oil lease funding to the heirs to Peter Shipshewano estate; copy of letter from Shawnee Indian Agency to Commissioner of Indian Affairs a request for a hearing to determine heirs of Peter Ship-she-wan dated March 26, 1916; copy of document dated October 25, 1926 referencing checks drawn from account of Peter Ship she wa no; copy from department of the Interior dated 3/27/24 referencing deed to heirs of Peter Ship-she-wano.
•2005.44.51-52 copy of letter from the Department of the Interior dated Nov. 20, 1880 to John S. Short, U.S. Indian Agent, Sac and Fox Agency I.T., in reference to a communication signed by Peter the Great, Anthony F. Navarre and John Anderson asking permission to build a farm, grist mill and cotton gin on reservation in Kansas. 2 pgs.
•2005.44.53-55 copy of letter from Department of the Interior dated July 25, 1899 to Lee Patrick, U.S. Indian Agent, Sac and Fox Agency, Okla. Ty. In reference to Silas Leclair’s wife’s inheritance from Peter the Great; letter from the Department of the Interior dated August 8, 1899 in reference to the inheritance from Peter the Great. 3 pgs.
•2005.44.56-65 photocopies of cards identified as Father Joe Murphy’s notes; resource notes for research on early allottees of the Potawatomi in Kansas and predominately Oklahoma.
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