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RECENT WEBSITE UPDATES December 15, 2009:   Two new documents on the MKLaw website. See "Lawsuit-09" above. December 11, 2009:   On December 7th the Government waived their right to respond. See "Lawsuit-09" above. December 9, 2009:   Government response due December 14th. See "Lawsuit-09" above. December 8, 2009:   Responsive brief filed by Johnson Law Group in support to the two petitions for writ of certiorari. See "Lawsuit-09" above. November 23, 2009:   Oglala Lakota Sioux of Pine Ridge Reservation joins our "fight for right."   Johnson Law Group clients soon to follow with their petition for writ of certiorari. See "Lawsuit-09" above. November 15, 2009:   Comment regarding the government response. See "Lawsuit-09" above. November 6, 2009:   A petition for writ of certiorari was filed this date. See "Lawsuit-09" above. October 22, 2009:   A review of where this lawsuit stands at the moment.   And of course, some personal opinion! See "Lawsuit-09" above. August 27, 2009:   Sixty days extension granted. See "Lawsuit-09" above. July 11, 2009:   Extensive additional information has been added to the "GENEALOGY / LAWSUIT BACKGROUND" below and other minor cosmetic website changes were made.   There shouldn't be any lawsuit updates until September 12, 2009 when we will receive word that the petition for review by the Supreme Court has been filed. June 12, 2009:   Petition for En banc Review denied. See "Lawsuit-09" above. May 5, 2009:   Petition for En banc Review filed. See "Lawsuit-09" above.

GENEALOGY / LAWSUIT BACKGROUND Madaline Rocque is the daughter of the mixed-blood (French & unknown Native tribe) trapper/trader Dennis Robinson and a Mdewakanton woman from Little Crow's band.   She was born around 1810 in Minnesota Territory.(now the St. Paul, MN area)   Around 1838 she arrived in the Wapashaw area (now Wabasha, MN) with her family. She marries Joseph Rocque in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on 15 Jun 1837. [Source: April 21, 1904 obituary, Wabasha Herald] On 20 Jul 1950 she is enumerated on the 7th Federal Census:   Madelene Rocque, age 28, is living in the county of Wabashaw, Territory of Minnesota with husband Joseph Rocque.   Children listed are Joseph, Jr. age 10; Domitille (Mathilda) , age 8; Baptiste, age 9; Louis Joseph (Josephine) age 2 She appears on the 8th Federal Census on 30 Jun 1860:   Madeline Rocque, age 43, is living in county of Wabashaw, State of Minnesota with husband Joseph Rocque.   Children listed are Baptist, age 20; Mathilda, ago 14, Josephine age 12, Leander, age 5; Felix, age 1.   Joseph Jr has set out elsewhere on his own or has passed to the spirit world since the last census. On 08 Jun 1865 she appears on the 1865 Minnesota State Census:   Madaline Rocque, female, is living in city of Wabasha, Wabasha County, Minnesota with husband, Jo Rocque.   Children listed are Matilda, Josephine and Felix. Note: Madaline's first name has been variously recorded as Madaline, Adaline, Madeline & Magdelana.   Her husband is variously recorded as Joseph and Jo.   The surname of Rocque is variously recorded as Rocque, La Rocque & Rock. On 01 Jun 1870 Madaline Rocque appears on the 9th Federal Census:   Magdalena Rock, 50 yr. old female Indian, is living in Town of Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin with husband Joseph Rock, 50 yr. old male Indian.   Only child listed is Felix, 12 yr. old male Indian. According to St. Felix church records, Wabasha, Minnesota records, Madeline Rocque's husband, Joseph Rocque, dies in Buffalo County, Wisconsin on 20 Feb 1875. On 10 Feb 1876, Adeline Rock, widow of Joseph Rock, purchases 80 acres of homstead land. [S½ - SE - 8 - 22- 12] in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.   The given name listed was spelled Adaline with the second "a" crossed out and corrected with an "e."   Land description: "South half of the South East quarter of Section eight; in Township twenty two of Range twelve West; in the District of Lands subject to sale at La Crosse Wisconsin containing Eighty acres;" [Homestead Certificate No. 3107, Application 4644, downloaded copy of Title Transfer from BLM website]   On 26 Feb 1876 the land is deeded the 80 acres to Charles Ebersold, Jr.   [Source: Transcription from Donna Carothers,Register of Deeds, Buffalo County, Wisconsin] Madaline Rocque is listed on the 1889 (Prairie Island Settlement) supplement to the 1886 Loyal Mdewakanton census.   She is living at the time in the household of her daughter-in-law, Susan Rocque, the widow of Felix Rocque.   Felix is the youngest child of Madaline and Joseph Rocque. On 13 Apr 1904 Mrs. Joseph (Madaline) Rocque dies at the home of her daughter, Josephine (Rocque) Ebersold in town of Tell, Buffalo County, Wisconsin. [Source: April 21, 1904 obituary, Wabasha Herald] Magdalena Roque (1810-1904) is interred 16 Apr 1904 at the St. Felix Cemetery, Wabasha, Minnesota. 263 lineal descendants of Madaline Rocque through her daughter Josephine Rocque were added to the Amended 3rd Complaint (Wolfchild v. United States) by Mohrman & Kaardal.   All lineal descendants of Madaline Rocque through her daughter Mathilda and a few other lineal descendants through Josephine Rocque could not locate sufficient documentation to qualify with Mohrman & Kaardal.   They are being represented by other counsel and have been accepted as intervenors in the lawsuit.   I have not yet been able to determine the status of lineal descendants of Madaline Rocque through her son Felix Rocque.   The final list of descendants represented by MKLaw are listed on the amended 5TH complaint.   Those intervening in the lawsuit are still pending before the court.   Whoever is determined BY THE COURT as bonifide lineal descendants will be awarded damages.   The "who and when" outcome is still a while away.

ANNOUNCEMENTS November 25, 2008:   * * * NEW * * *   I am receiving lots of feedback regarding this website from family members as well as interested parties who are not family members.   Thanks everyone! October 23, 2008:   I will be in Savannah, Georgia the first of next month for the 4th reunion of the USS SAVANNAH (AOR 4) Association.   I founded the Association on November 1, 2001 and have been its coordinator ever since, while organizing all the reunions along the way.   I am resigning from the Association organizer/reunion planning business on the last day of the upcoming reunion, November 12th.   I have not been able to finalize and publish the Aebersold / Ebersold Family History and keep up with the Wolfchild lawsuit because of the enormous amount of time spent on the USS SAVANNAH (AOR 4) Association. October 14, 2008:   I recently changed my eMail address due to our move to Indianapolis and it is listed at the bottom of this page.   This website, not being a bulletin board you need to log into, does not give me any feedback as to who is reading anything here or how often anyone is checking out the site.   If you can take the time, I'd appreciate an eMail to let me know somebody is looking at it, even if you are not a Madaline Rocque descendant.

IMPORTANT LAWSUIT LINKS MOHRMAN & KAARDAL Public website for the law firm of Mohrman & Kaardal relating to Minnesota Mdewakanton Dakota Oyate Litigation (Wolfchild, et al. v. United States) UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS Click on the "PUBLISHED DECISIONS" link on the left side navigation bar and look for Judge Lettow and Wolfchild, et al. v. United States

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