Frank Choate

  General Notes:

Met Josephine Mitchell at Fort Shaw boarding school where they were both students and assistants according to Annual report of Indian Affairs.


He was widowed after a brief marriage. Blackfeet; he's half Indian.

Indian Affairs; [Native Americans]; [Blackfeet Indians]
There is a page with a picture of a Mrs. Frank Choate and her daughter,
Mary Choate.
May 4, 1921. There is also a letter stating that her husband has left
her and daughter, and gone to live with another woman. Also mentioned
is Frank's brother, George Choate. The notes say a Sam Choate is
mentioned, but I don't find it in the letter.


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Enter Frank Choate

Control No: NRG-75-BFT64-80
Title: Mrs. Frank Choate, 04/1921-06/1921.
Creating Org: Department of the Interior.
Bureau of Indian
Affairs. Blackfeet Agency.

Control No: NRG-75-BFT64-113
Title: Frank Choate, 04/1921-06/1921.
Creating Org: Department of the Interior.
Bureau of Indian
Affairs. Blackfeet Agency.
Title
Blackfeet Industrial Survey
Dates 1921-1921

This series contains photographs and a narrative description of each
Blackfeet family.

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Mrs. Young Man Chief


Allottee No. - 1236
Age - 51
Degree - Full
Status - Ward
Family - 1 daughter

Home on Whitecalf Coulee. One horse, no cattle, no chickens. Has acre of wheat, no oats. Always has good garden. One crippled girl.

Picture was taken of Mrs. Young Man Chief and her daughter at their home.

Date of survey -------- April 28, 1921

This is a widow woman and has a very good allotment that has been well taken care of. In addition to her very neat one room house, about eighteen by twenty-four, she had a very good barn, also a very good cellar or root house. We found in the cellar some very nice potatoes from last year's raising-a sufficient number for seed and plenty for food until potatoes come again. There was hay carried over from last year.

This woman has one child, a crippled girl about thirteen years of age. Dr. Yates feels that nothing much can be done for this girl who was evidently afflicted with infantile paralysis. The husband of this woman was evidently a very progressive Indian. Mr. Sanderville, the farmer, informs me that he had cattle during the time of his life and sufficient horses to carry on his farming activities. His mowing machine and rake have been in use twenty years and are in good condition. There was a diploma hanging in this house showing that he was the best gardener of the reservation.

Living at this home was Frank Coate who was formerly of the progressive Indians of this reservation, half blood, educated in the St. Ignatius school on the Flathead reservation and at Fort Shaw before it was abandoned. He is a good mechanic, both in wood and iron. He has left his own home and his wife and children and taken up his home with Mrs. Young Man Chief, and they are living there as man and wife. Frank Choate is a patent in fee Indian. I have been intimately acquainted with this man for a good many years and feel a great deal of interest in both him and his family and regret very much the present situation of affairs in the family. Every influence almost has been brought to bear to have him abandon his present plan and return to his wife and children but no success has been attained so far. It may be an instance where the law can step in and do something; however, I doubt it very much. Because of his citizenship and her wardship it seems that we can get neither the state nor the government to handle the case.

Her reimbursable indebtedness is $3.50

Source: Heart Butte District
Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana

Frank married Josephine or Josie Mitchell, daughter of Joseph aka Dave or David Indian name: Bloody Knife Mitchell and Isabelle St. Germain, on 26 Jun 1896 in Fort Shaw. (Josephine or Josie Mitchell was born on 6 Oct 1878 in Cypress Hills, MT and died Fall 1899 in Fort Shaw.)

Frank next married Cecilia Young-Man Chief on 19 Feb 1922 in Count of Pondera, MT. (Cecilia Young-Man Chief was born in 1871.)

Frank next married Rosalia aka Rosalind Choate on 10 Oct 1898.