Standing Bird and Measure Woman Standing Bird parents to Garnet, born 7-12-1908, died 6-10-1910. Cheyennes
 Meserve Standing Bird/Red Leggins and Clara Sioux parents of Roy Standing Bird, born 3-4-1916. Cheyennes

Frank Standing Bird,19,male,single,died 7-31-1913, next of kin, parents Standing Bird and Measure Woman/Tah-nah.
 
 

Births and Deaths of C&As (no name of vol. pages only shown)
Text Copyright (c) 2003 Ruby Bushyhead compiled by John Sipe.

Standing Bird was an Indian police at Seger Agency in 1897. His two nephews ran off and made it to the Standing Bird allotment five miles northeast of present-day Clinton, Oklahoma, situated on Turtle Creek. This was a trek of 28 miles and it was winter time. The Standing Birds were not at home and the Indian police from Colony or Seger Agency caught the two boys and took them back to Seger School. Standing Bird went to see John Seger, the agent, and explained the boys would not stay in school and to allow Standing Bird to take the boys and educate them elsewhere near his home. He feared the boys would freeze if they left the school again, Seger consented and the boys were given one of Standing Birds horses to ride back home. He told them to not run the horse and walk the horse often so they could both with the horse not be worn out going home.

Standing Bird Oral History. Text Copyright (c) 2004 Sipe/Berthrong Cheyenne Collections. Boarding School Files.
 

Standing Bird, male, 34 yrs. old, born in Nebraska, mother born in Dakotas, father born in Dakotas. (gt. grandfather of John Sipes).

1900 U.S Census of Southern Cheyennes, J.J. Chou, Ethnology Project, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Oklahoma.
 

Arapaho bee Aug. 27, 1897.
Standing Bird, a Cheyenne who was a "blanket Indian" five years ago, has this year raised and dug thirty bushels of Irish potatoes and has good fields of corn and kaffir corn, and has four acres of the finest cotton in Custer county.
(Standing Bird is son-in-law of Medicine Water)


Colony Courier, May 19,1910.
An educated Indian talking about Indians farming remarked of, Standing Bird, who lives up the Washita northwest of Colony.  "He stays at home all the time and works just like a white man."

Colony Courier, Nov. 11, 1915.
Crooked Woman wife of Little Man Spring and Clara Sioux wife of Red Leggins, from Clinton, went to Tongue River Agency, Montana, to visit relatives.


Dec. 23, 1915.
Crooked Woman wife of Little Man Spring and Clara Sioux wife of Red Leggins have returned from Tongue River Agency, Montana, where they have been visiting relatives and friends. Their relatives and friends gave them a number of presents, among them a new set of Teepe Poles made of Spruce. (Red Leggins is son of, Standing Bird, son-in-law of Medicine Water)

Sipe/Berthrong Cheyenne Coll. Newspaper Inklings, Copyright (c) 2003.

Standing Bird (son-in-law of Medicine Water POW) and Measure Woman/Tah-nah had a son born 6-11-1907,named Leo Wilbur Standing Bird/Different Walks.

Births From Undated Pages Found In 1902 C&A Family Registar (Cheyennes)
Text Copyright (c) 2003 Ruby Bushyhead compiled by John L. Sipe.

Curious Horn, 46, full blood, Chey., husb., married in Winter of 1882 by Indian Custom, parents Buffalo Head and Clouding Woman, dead; Little Woman, 47, full blood, Chey., wife, parents Cut Arm, dead, and Big Woman. Katie Curious Horn, 6, daug. ( Standing Bird is full sister to Little Woman).

1902 C&A Family Registar 
Text Copyright (c) 2003 Ruby Bushyhead C&A Family Heirship and Estate Testimonies compiled by John Sipe.

Nibs/Plover/Charles White Skunk, male, born 1886, husb.; Swift Woman/Josephine Goose, female,
born 1887, wife; Jennie White Skunk, dau., born 1913; Willis White Skunk, son, born 1911; Jones
Edward White Skunk, son, born 1916. (Josephine Goose was dau. of Goose and White Buffalo Woman Goose. White Buffalo Woman Goose was sister to Standing Bird, son-in-law of Medicine Water, Ft. Marion POW.)

Measure Woman/Tah-nah, female, born 1863, mother; Wilbur/Leo Standing Bird, son, born 1907;
Verna /Owl Woman Standing Bird, dau., born 1907. (Measure Woman was dau. of Medicine Water, Ft.Marion POW.)

Census of the Cheyenne Indians of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency. Seger Agency on June 30, 1927, taken by L.S. Bonnin, Superintendent. Text Copyright (c) John L. Sipe  2003 .

Living Woman (Amanda), 8 yrs. old, female, Chey., died 1/29/1913 of T.B.
Father was Standing Bird, Mother was Tah-nah/Measure Woman.
(Measure Woman was daug. of Medicine Water and Mochi, POWs.)
Frank Standing Bird, 19, male, Chey., died July 13, 1913 of T.B.
Parents were Standing Bird and Measure Woman.
Roy Standing Bird, 4 months, Chey., died 7/24/1916.
Parents were Standing Bird and Measure Woman.

Goose, born 1862, 74, husb., Cheyenne.
White Buffalo Woman, born 1862, 74, wife, Cheyenne.
(White Buffalo Woman is full sister to Standing Bird, son-in-law of Medicine Water and Mochi POWs)

Little Woman Curious Horn, born 1855, 81, widowed.
(Little Woman is full sister to Standing Bird, son-in-law of Medicine Water and Mochi POWs)

Text Copyright (c) 2004 Sipe/Berthrong Cheyenne Collections. Census Files. 1937 Cheyenne and Arapaho Census.

Clinton Chronicle, April 30, 1914.
April 23rd. 1914.
Letter from John Seger "About Indians".
John Wilson has some fine alfalfa coming up. Stone Calfs not up. Perry Reynolds and sons Philip and Thomas have 1 acre of potatoes, 2 bushel of onion sets, 2 acres of early corn, 15 acres of field corn.
Little Man, Standing Bird, and Wade Black Owl have their corn planted. Stone Calf is planting corn. Little Man and Stone Calf have trimmed their peach trees.

Clinton Chronicle, July 8, 1910.
Carpenters have finished up three modern houses for Cheyennes living east of Clinton. The homes belong to Roman Nose (not the POW Roman Nose), Standing Bird, and Buffalo Thigh.

Text Copyright (c) 2004 Sipes/Berthrong Cheyenne Collections. Newspaper Exerpts, Clinton Chronicle.

Seger Indian Agency
Colony, Oklahoma
June 13, 1922
Agents Reports File (Cheyenne and Arapaho)
Standing Bird, Allotment #687, age 56, full blood Cheyenne, wife and 2 children. (Standing Bird is son-in-law of Medicine Water and Mochi, POWs)
Date of Survey: April 27, 1922.
I visited this home in company with the Agency physician and District farmer on the afternoon of the above date.
Standing Bird resides about 5 miles northeast of Clinton, Oklahoma, on Turtle Creek. He is quite old and unable to do but very little manual labor. He has a three room house with porches, small barn, cistern, wagon, five horses, 2 dozen chickens, monitor and a lister. He has an excellent garden.
His son, Meserve Standing Bird, and son-in-law, Frank Reynolds, and families reside with him and the young men cultivate about 70 acres. There is six acres of excellent alfalfa on the allotment and the balance of the cultivated land is planted to corn and kafir.
The children of Standing Bird attend the public schools of Clinton, Oklahoma.
No sickness was found in the family.

Text Copyright (c) John L. Sipe  2004. Sipe/Berthrong Collections. Seger Agency Reports.

Cheyenne And Arapaho Agency, Oklahoma.
Seger Agency
Industrial Survey Report, Agents Reports File
May 17, 1922
Goose ( Goose is brother-in-law to Standing Bird. Standing Bird son-in-law to Medicine Water and Mochi, POWs)
Allot. #2830, Age 60, full blood Cheyenne, number in family, wife.
Date of Survey: April 14, 1922.
Home on Bernitz Creek seven miles northwest of Clinton, Okla.
Goose is quite an old man and he and his wife make their home in a one room house located on the allotment, which is near the home of his son, Flynn. He is too old to work regularly but assists his son as much as his physical condition will permit. He has four horses. I visited his home on the afternoon of April 14, 1922, arriving at the place at 3:00 p.m. in company with the Agency Physician and the District Farmer. No sickness was found in the family.

Text Copyright (c) John L. Sipe  2004. Sipe/Berthrong Collections. Seger Agency Reports.

Cheyenne And Arapaho Agency, Oklahoma.
Seger Agency
Industrial Survey Report, Agents Reports File
May 17, 1922
Mouse Road, (Nephew of Standing Bird), allotment #2434, age 41, full blood Cheyenne, patentee status, wife and two 2 children.
This Indian resides about 5 north east of Clinton, Okla., and I visited his home on April 27, 1922, in company with the Agency Physician and District Farmer. Mouse Road was given a patent to his allotment during 1917 and has not sold it up to this time, although, I understand he has it mortgaged.
He has a two room house with porch, in good repair, cistern, shed barn and chicken house. His implements consist of a wagon and harness, and he cultivates 15 acres of his land. the balance of the allotment, being 135 acres is in pasture land. He has a good garden, and has 15 acres in corn and kafir corn. He also has three horses and three dozen chickens.
Issac Goose, (Issac Roads) and his wife and their baby, reside with Mouse Road. No sickness was found in the family. 

Text Copyright (c) John L. Sipe  2004. Sipe/Berthrong Collections. Seger Agency Reports.

Letter to Carl Cox, Indian Agent, Colony, Okla., from Barbara Baily, Teacher in Clinton, Oklahoma, Public Schools, Oct. 20, 1923.
Complains that certain Indians in her class are ruining her attendance record. John Bearshield, Ruby Bearshield, Agnes Stoneroad, Clarence Stoneroad, Pratt Standing Water and Wilbur Standing Bird. Rain may be cause of lack of attendance but they are prone to stay out for other reasons or other causes. John and Wilbur are absent for non-essential reasons and are very irregular. Asks Agent to see them and help make the following week perfect attendance week. /S/ Barbara Bailey.

Text Copyright (c) 2004 Sipes Cheyenne Collections. Colony School Section.

Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Indian Service, Field Journal Voucher No. 51.
(To transfer the proceeds of the sale of the Old Woman allotment to the accounts of her heirs, LS 39777-26)
September 22, 1926, Seger Indian Agency, Colony, Oklahoma.
Heirs: Bear Woman (Dirty Nose), Jane Big Smoke, Willie Bear Shield, Alfred Bear Shield, Peairs Ground Nose, Lizzie Good Bear, Killing Woman, Little Woman Magpie, Looks Behind, Standing (Roman Nose) First cousin to Measure Woman Standing Bird, daughter of Medicine Water and Mochi POWs, and Standing is wife of Henry Roman Nose, POW, Two Hawks, Turkey Legs, Clara Winona Turkey Legs, Nancy Tall Bird, William Tall Bird, Vetcora (Vetcora was married to Bird Chief, brother of Standing Bird, son-in-law of Medicine Water), Wooly Dog.

Text Copyright (c) 2005 Sipes/Berthrong Cheyenne Collections. Ft. Marion POWs Files and Estates Files.
 

Snake, male, born 1874, husb.; Small Back Snake, female, born 1866, wife. (Small Back Snake was
first cousin to Measure Woman Standing Bird.)
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Emma Gertrude Mary Snake, female, born 1901; Edward Williams Jr., born in 1924, not previously
reported, died 4/13/27.( Emma was dau. of Snake and Small Back Snake)

Census of the Cheyenne Indians of the C&A Agency, Seger Agency taken on June 30, 1927,  by L.S.Bonnin, Superintendent.
John Sipes Cheyenne Collection. 2003
 

Frank Wilson,male, born 1905. (Married Mattie Standing Bird and had two children named Cleo
Wilson Sipes and Everett Wilson. Franks father was John and mother was Woista Wilson)

Census of the Cheyenne Indians of the C&A Agency, Seger Agency taken on June 30, 1927,  by L.S.Bonnin, Superintendent.
John Sipes Cheyenne Collection. 2003
 

Standing Bird,Jr./Peter Bird Chief, Sr., male, born 1879, husb.; Vetcora, female, born 1881,
died 9/20/27; Dorcas Bird Chief, dau., born 1910. (Peter Bird Chief, Sr. was a nephew of
Standing Bird, son-in-law of Medicine Water. He was name sake of Standing Bird, his uncle.)

Census of the Cheyenne Indians of the C&A Agency, Seger Agency taken on June 30, 1927,  by L.S.Bonnin, Superintendent.
John Sipes Cheyenne Collection. 2003