"Na-Ni" or Nance

Na-Ni was a Cherokee woman.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cherokee-159

Na-Ni "Nancy" was a Cherokee Indian; her clan is unknown.

Almost nothing is known of Na-ni or Nancy, the sister of Doublehead, including her parents and her dates of birth and death. She was married to a man called The Badger, but on September 7, 1805 she wrote to Cherokee Agent Return Meigs, "Dear Sir, this comes to inform you that Mr. Badger and his wife has parted and she is a feard that he will take some means to Distrease her he will come perhaps to you with a tale but she says believe nothing he says for the truth is not in him & their is nothing that is to bad for him to say and she can prove it by white trade. From Double head sister Nancy hite to Col Maggs Agent of War." [1]

On June 28, 1812, John Chisholm wrote in a letter: "Lost nearly all my property. 'Two negroes ran away in possesion of big Nance, Doublehead's sister. I have been constantly with Talluhuskee and his party." [2]

Big Nance Creek in present-day Lawrence County, Alabama, was supposedly named after her.

Comments

From https://www.geni.com/discussions/186960?msg=1248108

Willenawah has no known or documented children. James Hicks trees for early Cherokee are just his undocumented theory. It is documented that Doublehead had a sister named Na-ni or Nance who lived in what is now Alabama. Hicks theorizes that she was the wife of a man named The Badger and that some individuals on the Mullay roll are their children. There is no evidence that she had any connection to a man named Joseph Terrell Goodman or that she was ever known as Elizabeth.

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1. info from familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks/BOO....

As compiled here, Nancy would be of the Paint Clan but so would her husband, the Badger. This would be forbidden under the Cherokee customs of the day. The clan association on Nancy's side is assumed through her "sister"(niece?) Wurteh (Paint clan) but Nancy may have been a half-sister; this would allow her to have a different clan association.

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Sources

• Records of the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee, 1801-1835. National Archives and Records Administration. Record group 75, publication number M208. 1805, p. 354
• Walker, Rickey. Doublehead - Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief. Bluewater Publications, Killen, AL, 2012. referencing National Archives and Records Administration, microcopy#208, roll#5 #2846