Pat Hogan

Thurman Lee Haas was born on 3 February, 1920 in central Oklahoma on the Pottawatomie Indian Reservation (home of the Kickapoo Tribe). His parents were Reuben Claude Haas and the former Ann Maud Waldrip. His father was a farmer who later became involved in tribal governments in Oklahoma and the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Thurman's family were members of the Oneida Indian Nation who, over a century earlier, had been forced to relocate from New York State to what was then known as the Northwest Territory in the area that later became the State of Wisconsin.