Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-27

veins and she desired he companion
ship OF her race; also. the mission
school offered good facilities for pro-
vidlng her children with an educa-
ton.
Travelled Back to Kansas City.
" hen the Indian agent demanded
proof, Julia Roy started back to Kan
sas City to get IT, II was in 1885,
the distance was $50 miles, and II
took her seven days TO make the
journey. In all probability she pass
ed through the frontier towns OF
Ossawatomie, Lawrence and Hum
boldt. and perhaps she rode occasion
ally In some freighter's wagon Her
mission was successful. however. for
within few weeks she was bacS
at Osaee with her proof, r big en-
velope filled with statements and af-
fidavits that what she said regarding
her Indian blood was true. She plac-
ed her proof before the Indian agent.
and he in turn before the Indian
council The result was decision
that she had a right to citizenship.
The priest In charge OF the mission
school. Father Paul Pontziglione. re-
ceiyed her twelve children and they
were educated.
When she appeared before the lu-
dian council TO establish her rights
aud while they we're investigating
her proof she found three champions
among -Ki-he-kah-tun-ka. the
head chief; Saucy Chief. later TO be-
come head chief. and Claremore. next
ranking chief OF the tribe. Saucy
Chief remembered seeing her in the
Indian camps at Kansas City and
gave testimony in her behalf that
was OF great weight with the coun-
Gil. II was necessary in order to
make her citizenship sure that some
Usage fullblood adopt her, and this
Claremont did. and this has resulted
In her being known as Madame
Claremont in addition to Roy and
Lessart The Indians spoke OF her
as the big woman" evidently big
in body as IN mind. and close in
quiry into tribal affairs leaves the
impression that she was honest.
One Son Strayed Northward.
WhaV, No Ham. 49,.
Osages in addition to her own fam
lily, she also brought three sisters
and had them placed firmly in their
rights as Indians. Their French-
Canadian husbands accompanied
them and so the Revelettes. the Prues
and LeSSarges helped increase thu
family of Roys until II has become
saving that stone cannot be
thrown into crowd OF white"
Osages AT any time or place without
striking a Roy.
All Of Madame Roy's children re-
manned with the Osages excepting
one son, who followed Sioux IN
dian wife to the far northwest. II
is this son Louis Benjamin Lessart.
who now asks the court to establish
his right as an Usage Indian Once
before he returned with that inten.
ton, but failed. Away back in 1856
as. when Julia Roy placed all her
children on the Usage roll, this son
was also declared a citizen, but be-
cause he refused to remain With the
Osages and followed his wife north.
ward among the Sioux, his name by
order OF the tribal council was strick-
en- from the roll.
When Louis Benjamin Lessart first
returned to claim and demand citi-
senship his mother had been dead
twenty years. She was buried where
the two Caney rivers unite, and the
entire tribe honored her in death.
She had accompanied the tribe with
all her kinsmen when the Osages re-
moved from Kansas to their present
reservation in Oklahoma In 1871.
From twenty to thirty members the
family has increased to about 200.
From the sale Of lands in Kansas the
Osages had in the neighborhood OF
sS,OO0,000 drawing interest In Wash
ington. A daughter OF Louis Benja-
min Lessart had returned to the
| Osages in 1883, and had been re-
stored to her rights. and Il was her
success that possibly induced her ia
Their afterward 10 attempt to regain
his citizenship, hut the Indian coun.
ell denied him.
The first attempt of Louis Benja-
min Lessart TO get back on the roll
was the beginning OF much trouble
making for the family OF Roy. In
1854 there were between 5,Oo0 and