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Stann, Hobin Interview . 18117 471 • STANN, HOBIN INTERVIEW . 18117 471 • . '""' . ' \ - . 472 STANN, ROBIN " ' f!< INTERVIEW • ' 12117 4 L. W. Wilson* . Journal i st November. 12, 1937' Interview with Robin Stann I r Stilwell, Oklahoma ; RobinStann w-s born January 4, 1861, at a place within two miles of his present home. He is a fullblood Cherokee Indian and married a full blood Cherokee Indian ,gir}.. Without the knowledge of the Cherokee language it would be impossible to visit with his family .for they all speak only Cherokee, Robin talks both Cherokee and' good English, as he -was educated in the old Female Seminary at * •t'ark Hill in the early days of that institution. Robin Stann's father-died when riobin wes an infant. The father's'name vr s Richard'"Dick" 3tanii and he was born in Georgia and moved'to Indian territory, along with his parents, over the Trjail of Tears in 1S38. Robin Stann's mother wes Peggy ^askey-Sta'nn, born in Georgia in 1837, .only a few months before John Ross, Principal Chief of the •Cherokees,' moved the later contingents of the Cherokees" west- ward. She came with her parents, making-up one of these parties. Robin. Stann's father and mother are.buried near the town of Stilwell in unmarked graves. STANN, ROBIN INTERVIEW , • 1^17 -2- Robin Stann served his people as deputy sheriff, interpreter and leader. He assisted them in.enrolling . under the Dawes Gommi£|g.on and saw that-allotment s were made to his people of the lands on which they lived and did not care to leave. He served the white man by in- terpreting for him the Cherokee lancuage when Indian crim- inals were hauled into court, For a number of years Adair County had him, as interpreter for all court cases, criminal, civil and otherwise, Adair County was in the very heart of the full bloc?d Indian country,, Boyhood days of Robin Stann, Robin was not unlike other Cherokee boys, He loved to hunt and fish with his bow and arrows and gigs, ^his was. not only sport but assisted him and his mother materially^in making a living. Amch of the game was useti for food and ani- mals whose hides and furs were'salable, were sold or traded for clothing and provisions* Hobin attended first the old Peavine School for one year, whsTe his teacher was Kenny Bavis and his next school was the Muddy Springs School,-for a term and the teacher was H, M. Adair. Both of these schools were close to his present home and the present town of Stilwell, . r • ' / , • ' .. 474 STANN, ROBIN - / INTERVIEW;^ , ' 12117 ' * • -3- ! 1 ; •.'.';•: His next school was;'at Park Hill, Indraft Territory, This school Hob in SLtann attended during the years 1878, 187S and 1880. His teachers were Professors -Bacone, Williams, Davenport, Tuxie perey, fc*ark Bean and others. AH these schoola were taught i» the English language. ' He then married and started a home. His mother had died before his marriage. Marria ge• riobin was married in accordance with the Cherokee laws. All that was necessary for two Indians to marry, was to pre- sent themselves to the Judge of the .District in which they lived or to any preachejr. The judge or preacher-would pro- , nounce the couple man and wife and would issue to them'a certificate to the effect they had been married and the. judge or preacher would file a copy of this certificate . proper official of the Cherokee Government at Tahlequah, Capital of the Cherokee Nation. Ifv "•-»•''a • white man desired to marry a Cherokee girl, it was necessary for hiit to circulate a petition among the citi- zens,of-the tribe to which she belonged. Upon receiving " ten signatures that he was of good character and with a pay- / • ;"V...' . • • ' ; - 475 . STANN; ROB'lN ' ' INTERVIEW , ' ' 122.17 ment of llO.pO into the treasury of the Cherokees, a license would be issued for their marriege. Elections ' ' Politics among t^he Qherokees was always a great issu-e, due to the Treaty and Anti-trg€rtjpPcr'ty, v/hich originated • •/' f ~ X back in Georgia. The ^ossf Farw.was the Anti-treaty Party and-would be considered today As the Republican lerty; The other party was the Hidge or treaty tarty and woul^d be termed today the Democratic Party.! •The most of the Ridge- Fnrty fought with tbe South during the GiVi . tfobin ^tann. wes in sym- pathy "with the Ross Farty and\w\^s very influential among the full-bloods in securing votes fors^vfoecajididates whom he fa- vored and for his work he was given/political positions on three occasions. • , =~ Elections were held at the District Courthouses. There were nine districts in the Cherokee Nation^ The ones in which Hobin Stann took an active part were Flint snd the Goingsnak'e Districts and at one time he ,knew every voter in these two dis- tricts. J^pmenwe-re tot permidfetied to vote. A legal voter had to-,.. be a maUe citizen> 6'f the, Chei^Mee'Nation and-must h^ve attained the age of twenty-one years. A young man just becoming a vbter .476 STANN, ROBIN ^INTERVIEW 12117 \ { r 'must have some one vouch for his being of Iawf-u4r~age*________ These officers to be elected were" the Principal Chief, Assistant Chief and members of the Council of the Upper and Lower,House. Judges and sheriffs were elected in their respective districtso On the day of the election ' - "• . all the voters would go to the court ouse and file with"' "*' . • the clerk of the election and tell him whon' t'ey wished- - to.vote for and the clerk would record*-these names'on . a sheet of paper, -"-'here we're no' bal lot sas-there are „ • today and most votes were gotten by personal contact with'""" -•-.. the voter before the election by explaining the reasons why he should vote for a certain candidate.* kany men did , npt.vote because it was often difficult-to reach the voting pieces in those days. The Cherokees we're in;most instances' satisfied with the elections, ^although oftentimes before election day -there would be^ fights and shooting scrapes. Career As An Officer. Hobin Stann farmed in a small way, enforced the law and interpreted the Cherokee language. He was appointed Dep- uty Sheriff for three terms and served in these districts working for the Dawes Commission and served as official - - 477 STANN, ROBIN • ^TNTERVIErf 12117 , ••••-• • -6- - . • ' :' , • ' interpreter in the courts after Statehood. ' ' Massacre at Goingsnake Couit House-in the Goingsnake District of the Cherokee Nation* The setting of this affair was a little log house used for a'courthouse, located far up in the hills, in ©'-shady grove near a spring of fine water, known today as the old Arthur Sanders, or Whitman place between Christie and Barono *' « * * - The judge of the court was Judge i>uvall and the prose- cuting attorney was the well known, fullblood Cherokee, John- son Spade, and the defending attorneys were Johnson Proctor and Attorney Alberta, a half -breed Cherokee. The Sheriff was Jack .Vright. The jury consisted of twelve men. George Blackwood was a jtiryman. The defendant was 2eke Proctort a brother of Johnson-Proctor, one of his attorneys. &e was .. being tried for the murder of the sister-in-law of Black Sut, Ahite Sut',and Bill Beck. As they gathered st; thec,court- house for trial, it was noticed that the ^eclr faction dis- tinguished themselves from the others present'by placing in their hats, twigs of wild plum blossoms. " The sheriff, Jack Aright, produced his prisoner for trial.1 The jury was called to the box and the trial got under way. Pridr to the day of the trial much .agitation was :' . ' 478 STANK-, ROBIN. ' INTERVIEW ., . 12117 ? -7- aroused between the Cherokee Government and the United States Government by deputy United ^taires Ka-rshals-who claimed that the defendant should be tried by the laws of the United States and not by the Cherokee Law, as the Becks were more white than Indian. This statement, however, was not truet The Cherokees paid no heed to these marshals, sensing that all they wanted to do was to take Zeke Proctor and kill him for they considered him one of those mean Indians whom they could not handle., The Cherokee Government "knew that they could handle any *- of their criminals regardless and to them Zeke was just another .criminal. The prosecutor, Spade, was asking the .death penalty for Zeke Proctor on account of the murder of Mrs. Beck. The defendants attorney was @).ing to attempt to prove that Mrs. ^eck was killed accidentally by Zeke Proctor, with no malice or hatred in his heart toward her, •and that the shot was^aimed at another person and-that Mrs. Beck jumped in front of the person aimed at and was killed* One of the jurjars,- George Blackwood, was facing the one and only door to the, house a As the defendants attorneys had finished their statement to the jury-, this juror noticed STANN, ROBIN ' INTERVIEW- 12117 the United States Marshals enter the door wi"th rifles, cocked, followed by the Becks. George Blackwood shouted for everybody to look out that they were coming to""get" Zeke Proctor and at this instant the shooting began. The shooting'grew worse for all men were armed fn those days, the marshals were repulsed and went into the yard. £>.-Xe was •* not armed but in some way he got a pistol aiid once outside of the house he took refy.ge in the corner of the fireplace and from this pofcn't he did his shooting, &e did not have the rifle at this time that he used so often in other shooting affrays.
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