24 DEC 2020, Memorial notes at or near time of transfer. Added gender. Surname seen both as SUAGEE and SAUGEE.
1) A Native American figure connected with the 1961 "McDonald Territory" event in McDonald County, Missouri. His photo was seen in national media as the event unfolded, which basically lambasted the State of Missouri's Department of Transportation for leaving McDonald County off the 1961 Tourist map. Located in the extreme Southwest corner of Missouri, bordered by Arkansas and Oklahoma, with Elk Creek and other waterways running through it, McDonald County was and is, a popular tourist, canoeing and resort area. The effects of being left off the map were viewed as being financially crippling. Citizens and business owners were outraged.
As a form of protest, the county legally filed to secede from the State of Missouri via a motion in the State Senate, and then renamed itself McDonald Territory, established a foreign embassy office in Joplin, and issued their own private postage stamps for carriage of the mail from McDonald County to a post office outside their area. (Called a "local post.") They stopped travelers at the Northern and Southern borders on U.S. Highway 71, and issued them temporary "visas" for passing through McDonald Territory.
The leaders of the secession movement had official "talks" with Chief Suagee with a complete blitz of publicity connected with those meetings, wherein on behalf of the tribe, Suagee offered to take McDonald Territory back, inasmuch as the Indians originally owned it to begin with. Chief Suagee often posed in full Indian headdress and made traditional gestures of friendship toward the McDonald Territory leaders. (See photo section) The ruckus eventually blew over, and McDonald County remained a part of the State of Missouri, but people there remain mad to this day.
2) Added to my virtual cemetery of the McDonald Territory personalities. You can read the full story about the McDonald Territory incident at http://tinyurl.com/McD2011~
1) A Native American figure connected with the 1961 "McDonald Territory" event in McDonald County, Missouri. His photo was seen in national media as the event unfolded, which basically lambasted the State of Missouri's Department of Transportation for leaving McDonald County off the 1961 Tourist map. Located in the extreme Southwest corner of Missouri, bordered by Arkansas and Oklahoma, with Elk Creek and other waterways running through it, McDonald County was and is, a popular tourist, canoeing and resort area. The effects of being left off the map were viewed as being financially crippling. Citizens and business owners were outraged.
As a form of protest, the county legally filed to secede from the State of Missouri via a motion in the State Senate, and then renamed itself McDonald Territory, established a foreign embassy office in Joplin, and issued their own private postage stamps for carriage of the mail from McDonald County to a post office outside their area. (Called a "local post.") They stopped travelers at the Northern and Southern borders on U.S. Highway 71, and issued them temporary "visas" for passing through McDonald Territory.
The leaders of the secession movement had official "talks" with Chief Suagee with a complete blitz of publicity connected with those meetings, wherein on behalf of the tribe, Suagee offered to take McDonald Territory back, inasmuch as the Indians originally owned it to begin with. Chief Suagee often posed in full Indian headdress and made traditional gestures of friendship toward the McDonald Territory leaders. (See photo section) The ruckus eventually blew over, and McDonald County remained a part of the State of Missouri, but people there remain mad to this day.
2) Added to my virtual cemetery of the McDonald Territory personalities. You can read the full story about the McDonald Territory incident at http://tinyurl.com/McD2011~
24 DEC 2020, Memorial notes at or near time of transfer. Added gender. Surname seen both as SUAGEE and SAUGEE.
1) A Native American figure connected with the 1961 "McDonald Territory" event in McDonald County, Missouri. His photo was seen in national media as the event unfolded, which basically lambasted the State of Missouri's Department of Transportation for leaving McDonald County off the 1961 Tourist map. Located in the extreme Southwest corner of Missouri, bordered by Arkansas and Oklahoma, with Elk Creek and other waterways running through it, McDonald County was and is, a popular tourist, canoeing and resort area. The effects of being left off the map were viewed as being financially crippling. Citizens and business owners were outraged.
As a form of protest, the county legally filed to secede from the State of Missouri via a motion in the State Senate, and then renamed itself McDonald Territory, established a foreign embassy office in Joplin, and issued their own private postage stamps for carriage of the mail from McDonald County to a post office outside their area. (Called a "local post.") They stopped travelers at the Northern and Southern borders on U.S. Highway 71, and issued them temporary "visas" for passing through McDonald Territory.
The leaders of the secession movement had official "talks" with Chief Suagee with a complete blitz of publicity connected with those meetings, wherein on behalf of the tribe, Suagee offered to take McDonald Territory back, inasmuch as the Indians originally owned it to begin with. Chief Suagee often posed in full Indian headdress and made traditional gestures of friendship toward the McDonald Territory leaders. (See photo section) The ruckus eventually blew over, and McDonald County remained a part of the State of Missouri, but people there remain mad to this day.
2) Added to my virtual cemetery of the McDonald Territory personalities. You can read the full story about the McDonald Territory incident at http://tinyurl.com/McD2011~
1) A Native American figure connected with the 1961 "McDonald Territory" event in McDonald County, Missouri. His photo was seen in national media as the event unfolded, which basically lambasted the State of Missouri's Department of Transportation for leaving McDonald County off the 1961 Tourist map. Located in the extreme Southwest corner of Missouri, bordered by Arkansas and Oklahoma, with Elk Creek and other waterways running through it, McDonald County was and is, a popular tourist, canoeing and resort area. The effects of being left off the map were viewed as being financially crippling. Citizens and business owners were outraged.
As a form of protest, the county legally filed to secede from the State of Missouri via a motion in the State Senate, and then renamed itself McDonald Territory, established a foreign embassy office in Joplin, and issued their own private postage stamps for carriage of the mail from McDonald County to a post office outside their area. (Called a "local post.") They stopped travelers at the Northern and Southern borders on U.S. Highway 71, and issued them temporary "visas" for passing through McDonald Territory.
The leaders of the secession movement had official "talks" with Chief Suagee with a complete blitz of publicity connected with those meetings, wherein on behalf of the tribe, Suagee offered to take McDonald Territory back, inasmuch as the Indians originally owned it to begin with. Chief Suagee often posed in full Indian headdress and made traditional gestures of friendship toward the McDonald Territory leaders. (See photo section) The ruckus eventually blew over, and McDonald County remained a part of the State of Missouri, but people there remain mad to this day.
2) Added to my virtual cemetery of the McDonald Territory personalities. You can read the full story about the McDonald Territory incident at http://tinyurl.com/McD2011~
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