There were Native American Goodnight's. And there was along the Sac River in parts of E. Lawrence Co, MO, Dade Co, MO, and Polk Co, MO, the SAC RIVER BAND a/k/a STOCKTON BAND of Cherokees. I think there were many more than those surnames who were Cherokee, in fact, I believe that most of the early settlers in that area were Cherokees including mine, CASADA DOUGLAS DAVIS CANTRELL and others. My source is: A typewritten copy of the constitution drawn up by representatives of the SAC RIVER BAND a/k/a STOCKTON BAND on the Sac River, representatives of the GREEN BAND of north Missouri and the WHITE RIVER BAND that settled along the White River in Northwest Arkansas whose head is near present Boston Mountain (near Pettigrew, on highway 16 ) and winds around through Arkansas upwards to the James River in Missouri then back down into Arkansas. The representatives are named but not who they represent. They wanted to be recognized as being Cherokee of Missouri and Oklahoma and the new Constitution was written in 1895, before the Dawes Rolls. The first Indians that came to Arkansas from the East included other bands besides the Cherokee to Arkansas (the Creeks namely) and some were listed in "Old Settlers". But you won't find them on the Dawes Rolls for the most part because you had to be physically living in Indian Territories (Oklahoma) in order to be on the Dawes Rolls, even if you were Indian. If you wasn't then you lost your nationality even if you was a full blood Native American. You wasn't supposed to be able to vote own land either. So many just passed for white and stayed where they were or melted back into the hills. Some of their relatives may have gone to Indian Territories and were included on the Dawes Rolls. If you can prove your relationship to them, you might could prove your nationality. There are a lot of Northern Cherokee bands wanting to be recognized as being Cherokee. At least two being in Oklahoma but most of them are in Arkansas. Jacob Wolf was a very early Indian Agent who locate! d on the Indian side of the North Fork of the White River near present Mountain Home, AR. His brother Rev. John Wolf settled on the opposite bank in USA territory. You will find that there is a close relationship between Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri as far as the settling went and they often went back and forth.