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1900 US Census Heads of Household
(identified of Indian ethnicity)
Name, age, sex, ethnicity, birthplace,
residence, county, location
SHIRLEY HARRY 24 M I OK OK INDIAN
RESERVATION WICHITA INDIAN RESERVATION
SHIRLEY JAMES 23 M I ITER ITER CHEROKEE TWP 16 N RANGE 24 E
SHIRLEY SALLIE 20 F I IA ITER CHEROKEE TWP 16 N RANGE 23 E
1910 US Census Heads of Household
(identified of Indian ethnicity)
Name, age, sex, ethnicity, birthplace,
residence, county, location
SHIRLEY HARRY 40 M I OK OK CADDO
DELAWARE TWP
SHIRLEY WALTER 24 M I AZ AZ APACHE NAVAJO INDIAN RESERVATION
1920 US Census Heads of Household
(identified of Indian ethnicity)
Name, age, sex, ethnicity, birthplace,
residence, county, location
SHIRLEY HARRY 21 M I NM NM SAN
JUAN NAVAJO INDIAN RESERVATION
SHIRLEY JIM 34 M I NM NM MCKINLEY NAVAJO INDIAN RESERVATION
SHIRLEY RUSHIE 37 F I OK OK GARVIN 3-WD; WYNNEWOOD
No earlier census identifies
any Shirleys of native american origin.
1911 Equity Case 7071
The following names are excerpted
from the Equity Case 7071 in the United States Court for the
Southern District of the Indian Territory. The legal brief, list
the names of approximately 2,000 Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen
claiming to have "Indian Blood", that should have granted
them status as "citizens by blood" in the two respective
nations.
The case was generated from a
demand that their names be transferred from the freedmen rolls
to the blood rolls during the Dawes Commission enumeration in
1898. The case wound its way finally to the Supreme Court of
the United States on December 12, 1911. The case unfortunately
was never argued before the justices, for the failure of the
plaintiff's attorney's to file ?a printed brief?, and was subsequently
dismissed. [list of litigants]
Albert SHERLEY
Bell SHERLEY
Calis SHERLEY
Victor SHERLEY
Joe Shirley elected Navajo Nation President
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Navajo voters
elected Joe Shirley by a landslide as the new Navajo Nation president
Nov. 5. Shirley, an Apache County Commissioner from Chinle, Ariz.,
handily defeated incumbent Kelsey Begaye by a vote of 31,406
to 23,964, according to unofficial results posted for 108 of
110 chapters on the Navajo Nation.
In an interview the morning after
the election, Shirley said he was very grateful for the people’s
confidence in him, and ready to go to work on their behalf.
"I feel elated that the
Navajo people supported us in the way they did," he said.
"We really appreciate that and we know there’s a lot
of work to be done."
He interpreted the wide margin
as a mandate for change. "Three quarters of the people who
voted in the primary said they wanted a change. They repeated
that mandate in the general election, and we are going to bring
them that change."
Shirley and his running mate,
vice-president elect Frank Dayish of Shiprock, N.M., promised
to respect the people’s mandates and work to create better
education opportunities and more jobs for the Navajo Nation’s
300,000 members.
Shirley led a grassroots campaign
during the past year by visiting more than 80 of 110 chapters
on the Navajo Nation. He promised to bring a more effective form
of government to the Navajo people, which has been dominated
by the legislative branch comprised of 88 council delegates representing
110 chapters.
The first thing on the morning-after
agenda for Shirley and Dayish was a trip to KTNN, the Navajo
Nation’s 100,000-watt radio station, where they recording
taped messages of thanks to Navajo voters.
"We wanted to say thank
you and express our deep appreciation to all the Navajo people
and to our Creator," Shirley said. "It’s very
important to not forget the people who got you there and that
was my first priority."
That was followed by meetings
with current President Kelsey Begaye and the nation’s financial
services staff to make plans for the two-month transition.
"Come inauguration time
in January, we want to hit the ground running so we are putting
together a transition team and a budget for the transition. We
want to put a freeze on unnecessary expenditures and start looking
at people for our cabinet."
Education is the number one priority
for Shirley and Dayish, according to the message they consistently
delivered to voters during their yearlong campaign visiting Navajo
communities.
"We feel education is the
way to get people to become independent, to get good jobs so
they can have homes and take care of their families," said
Shirley. "We want our Navajo children to learn to be independent
and sovereign, so we’re going to put a lot into education."
Shirley said he is looking forward
to working with Congress and the Bush administration to help
Navajo initiatives toward self-sufficiency.
"I come from a Dine’
belief that we are all the five-fingered people and we can work
together no matter what our political parties. With prayer and
concern for our people, we can reach out and make good things
happen for our people."
Shirley said President Begaye
was gracious in conceding when he visited the Shirley camp’s
election night gathering at Nakai Hall on the Navajo Nation fairgrounds
where they awaited election results.
"He offered us his help
and we agreed to put the campaign behind us. We need to become
one again as Navajo people and move forward from here."
 Joe Shirley Jr.
Joe Shirley Jr., 55 was born
on December 4, 1947 in Chinle, Arizona. He is of the Todich'iini
clan, born for the Tabaahi clan. His maternal grandfather is
Tse'naaginii and his paternal grandfather is Tsenjiikini.
Shirley, raised by his grandmother
since he was a toddler has called Chinle his home all of his
life. He has genuine love for people from all walks of life.
He enjoys playing basketball, running and spending time with
his family. One of his greatest enjoyments is lecturing on the
Navajo way of life for self-development.
He is married to Vikkie and they
have six children, three daughters and three sons. His wife Vikki
is Kiyaa'nni born for the Ma'iidesh giizhnii clan. Her parents
are Victor Moses and Gladys Begay of Lukachukai, Arizona.
A 1966 graduate of Chinle High
School in Chinle, Arizona, Shirley went on to earn his Associates
of Art Degree in 1968 from Magic Valley Christian College in
Albion, Idaho. His continued pursuit of education found him at
Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas where he obtained
his Bachelor of Science Degree, majoring in Business. In 1978,
Shirley earned a Master of Social Work Degree from Arizona State
University in Tempe, Arizona.
Shirley contributed sixteen years
to the social services field, and from 1983 to 1984 he served
as Executive Director of the Navajo Division of Social Services.
His public service is vast, including
serving on the Navajo Nation Council from 1986 to 1999 where
he was the Chairman of the Labor and Manpower Committee, the
Advisory Committee from 1987 to 1991, Chairman of the Tax Commission
from 1991 to 1995, and member of the Intergovernmental Relations
Committee and Chairman of the Ethics and Rules Committee from
1995 to 1998. Shirley was elevated to Apache Country Supervisor
in 1984, a position he recently retired from in January. In 1996,
he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Association
of Counties (NACo) in Washington D.C., which comprises of over
3000 counties throughout the United States. He is also a member
of the Economic and Community Development Committee of NACo,
as well as received an appointed to serve as a member of the
Sustainability Leadership Team. In 1997, he served as a member
of the Advisory Committee to the President's Commission of Sustainable
Communities in Washington, D.C. and from 1985 to 1991 a member
of the Public Lands Committee. He has already grained national
attention by being appointed by Native American leaders to co-chair
both the BIA/Tribal Budget Advisory Council and the Sovereign
Protection Initiative. Since taking office in January as the
sixth President of the Navajo Nation, he successfully led the
Shirley-Dayish administration into the future. President Joe
Shirley, Jr. has a true commitment to serve the Navajo Nation
and its' people by giving power back to them.Wikipedia article
NAVAJO
1910 Apache County AZ Census
- Indian Reservation
Walter Shirley 29 b AZ Full Navajo
Mrs Shirley 22 b AZ Full Navajo
Joe Shirley 3 b AZ Full Navajo
1900 Apache County AZ Census
- Indian Reservation
Walter Shirley b 1884 AZ Full
Navajo (parents full Navajo) Schoolboy living at school
Shirleys of Apache County Arizona
See Branch #80 John Shirley.
His wife was Indian. They gave an Indian name to their son.
A FUNNY STORY!
By your editor, Betty Shirley
About 7 years ago, we were having
some telephone problems. It seems that the phone company for
years has been pulling lines from here and there as they expanded.
It had become a mess. They brought in telephone repair people
from many areas to come into this area and help reroute the lines
and upgrade. As this was being done, our phone became cross switched
with our neighbors somehow and for two weeks we had no phone.
We called into complain and they eventually came out to fix it.A
few days after it was finally fixed, we noticed a telephone repairman
on the telephone pole out in front of our house. We feared they
would mess up the connection or something. Remember, we had been
without telephone service for 2 weeks. When my husband saw him,
he yelled up to him and told him not to mess up our lines. He
wasn't to nice the way he said it. Well, the fellow took it kindly
and after he came down, he asked us to check our phones. He told
us what he was doing and about the old system being upgraded,
and how they have brought him to help, etc. As we stood there
talking, I noticed his name badge. His surname was SHIRLEY. Of
course we had a conversation about the Shirleys. He descends
from the Indian Shirley family in AZ. What an experience that
was. Never know who you might be yelling at, do you?
 Ben Shirley
The Ben Shirley family are of
Navajo ancestry. Ben had grown up in Arizona and when he was
in his early 20's he brought his family to Kelso California.
He went to work for the Union Pacific railroad company in 1945.
He purchased a small house on the east side of town and raised
a family. He served on the Kelso school board.
On his days off from the railroad
work, Ben would often take on various jobs on several of the
East Mojave cattle ranches doing mostly fence and corral construction.
His wife passed away in 1967.
His children were in their teens and younger.
His father died in 1980 in Arizona.
Several of the family still live
in the Barstow area of California.
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