His murder led to the U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Ramsey (1926).

[3] Roan married Mollie Kyle in a traditional and arranged Osage marriage when he was 15.

Shortly after the marriage he returned to Carlisle Indian Industrial School and they each remarried.

[2] During Roan's lifetime, most Osage people were considered legally incompetent by the United States and required to have a guardian.

[4] Hale was convicted in federal court on October 29, 1929, for the murder of Roan and sent to the Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas.