Long ago, my tribe the Osage says, we came down to this world as hawks landing in the branches of the Red Oak Tree. We moved about, eventually settling in semi-permanent villages, hunting the buffalo on the Plains up to twice a year after the In-Spa-thon (Spaniards) brought horses back to this land. After that, French missionaries and traders with hair on their face came and visited our homes along the Missouri and Osage Rivers in Arkansas, and our hunting territories in Kansas and Oklahoma. The French got along with Native people well, and the traders married in and out of the tribes to cement their business relations, and out of the French "joy of life".
In the early 1850's, a French-Brotherton (possibly some Osage, too) Indian, Francis Labadie, married a French-Brotherton-Osage, Susan Cicotte. They are my Great-great grandparents. As of 1/14/05, I have tried to update the Family Tree to what I know at this point, with information taken from 2 copies of family trees done by my dad and my cousin, Annetta (Labadie) Holt, and some very useful information from Charles W. Clawson who kindly has been e-mailing me on the Cicottes and Labadies since last month.
This family tree includes one presumption: that Jean Baptiste Cicotte married an Osage woman. This presumption is due to his great grand-daughter Susan (my great-great-grandmother) being listed as 1/8 Osage in the Family Register of Osage Families from the late 1800s. This information COULD be from her just being "adopted" in to the tribe in the 1870's, as the Osages adopted a lot of other disconnected Natives after the cholera and contact with the Americans had thinned the ranks.
Also of interest, is that my great-uncle Warren Labadie had told me that his dad (Francis) spoke three languages: Potawatomi, Osage, and French, before he was sent to the Indian Boarding School in Philadelphia with other Osage kids, where he also learned English. That may be why my grandma (Helen (Labadie) Jarvis said that her grandma was Potawatomi/Oneida, as I recall.
Future directions: verify myself the Family Register of Osage Families when I go home this summer to the reservation for the June dances. Possibly get genetic samples from 2 of my older surviving male cousins to look at Native American/other ethnic roots from that direction. I also want to add on the non-Native/French sides, for my mom's and my dad's dad's sides. Will try and shrink scanned Labadie pics which include the first cabin on the Osage Reservation, and upload them.
I take responsibility for any mistakes. Corrections and suggestions are welcome and needed - please e-mail me with any suggestions, corrections, etc at
bdjarvis followed by @earthlink.net
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David L. Jarvis, MD
Baraboo, WI USA
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