Person: Francis Godfroy, Myaamia Name: Palaanswa

• Oklahoma Allottee

  Kansas Allottee

  Treaty Reserve Recipient

  Myaamia Language Source

  Nationality: Myaamia
  Family Group:
• ID: 94
  

  Gender: Male

  Date of Birth: Knw 03-07-1788
  Location of Birth: Kiihkayonki

  Date of Death: Knw 05-01-1840
  Location of Death: Peru
• Biography/Notes:
  Francis Godfroy was born in 1788, the son of Saakacaahkwa and Jacques Godfroy, a French merchant operating in Kiihkahyonki (what became Fort Wayne) and Detroit. Palaanswa's primary community was at the mouth of the Mississinewa River, where he established his family and trading contacts in the years after the War of 1812. His business and political acumen made him an influential akima, and he was elected a war chief in his later years. Known as a large man, images of Palaanswa indicate his somewhat genteel personal style. For a time, he seems to have spent time between his eastern reserve lands near the Ohio border and his more permanent home at Mount Pleasant near Peru, Indiana. He died in 1840 and is buried with family in the Godfroy Cemetery in Miami County, Indiana.