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In this postcard note to George W. Martin of the Kansas State Historical Society, Fannie W. Nadeau explains to Martin that Shawpaw kaw kah shot himself around 1863, shortly after completing his will. The picture on the front of the postcard is of the Sac and Fox Indian School near Stroud, Oklahoma, which was the city in which Nadeau lived at the time she corresponded with Martin and with Ida M. Ferris of Osage City, Kansas.
Creator: Nadeau, Fannie
Date: June 18, 1910
Item Number: 220084
Call Number: Ida Ferris Coll. #29, letters received relating to the Sauk and Fox Indians, 1908-1910
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 220084
Collections - Manuscript - Ferris, Ida M.
Date - 1910s - 1910
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Kansas State Historical Society
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
People - American Indians - Tribes - Sac and Fox
People - Notable Kansans - Ferris, Ida M.
People - Notable Kansans - Martin, George Washington
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Indian reservations - Sac and Fox
Places - Other States - Oklahoma - Stroud
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Postcard
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/220084