What was Annie Oakley's nationality?

Question:She was American. Did you mean her ethnicity?

She could have been American Indian, but you're right she doesn't look white at all.

If indeed she isn't native American, and is in fact only German, she could have been mixed with various strains of eastern European Ancestry, in which case her dark appearance could be explained. Back then Germany was inclusive of some parts of Russian, and as far south east as Hungary. Also, I'm an American living in Germany, and have noticed that southern Germans are much darker in appearance, with dark hair, eyes, and olive colored skin, so perhaps her family was Bavarian (southern German).

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: She was American. Did you mean her ethnicity?

She could have been American Indian, but you're right she doesn't look white at all.

If indeed she isn't native American, and is in fact only German, she could have been mixed with various strains of eastern European Ancestry, in which case her dark appearance could be explained. Back then Germany was inclusive of some parts of Russian, and as far south east as Hungary. Also, I'm an American living in Germany, and have noticed that southern Germans are much darker in appearance, with dark hair, eyes, and olive colored skin, so perhaps her family was Bavarian (southern German).

Her parents, Susan and Jacob Moses, were Quakers from Pennsylvania. That's all I know.

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Anne "Annie" Oakley
Original name: Phoebe Ann Moses
Birth: Aug. 13, 1860
Death: Nov. 3, 1926

Sharpshooter. She was born Phoebe Moses in Darke County, Ohio. She never attended a regular school and was introduced and taught to shoot by her father in the woods around the farm where she lived. During hard times, she helped support her family with the game she caught. Her career as a sharpshooter stated at age 17, when she defeated the noted marksman, Frank E. Butler at a competition in Cincinnati, Ohio. The two eventually married and traveled with the Buffalo Bill Show for 17 years (1885-1902). She assumed the show business name of Anne Oakley. On a trip to Europe, Queen Victoria of England was quite impressed with her abilities, and on one occasion the crown prince of Germany encouraged her to shoot a cigarette from his mouth. Her expertness in marksmanship at the height of her career made her the best known cultural icon in the United States. At 30 paces, she could slice a playing card held edgewise, shoot holes through coins at a smiliar distance and scramble eggs in midair. She shot ashes out of cigarets, snuffed candles and shot corks out of bottles. A railroad accident in 1901 partially paralyzed her, but she continued to tour regularly. In 1916, she and Frank made Pinehurst, North Carolina their winter retirement home. At the famous resort known for its golf course, fox hunting, and its trapshooting range, Anne Oakley became a teacher. She thought women how to defend themselves as well as the fine art of trap shooting. Her health began to fail, suffering from pernicious anemia (Lead Poisoning) from all the ammunition she'd handled. In 1922 the couple moved back to Darke County, Ohio where the anemia took her life. When Frank was told, he simply stopped eating and died 18 days later. The couple is buried near the woods where little Annie Mose first hunted and trapped to sustain her impoverished family. (Bio by John R. Bacak)

Cause of death: pernicious anemia
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...

This information came from findagrave.com if you click on the link there's a photo of her and her grave,
hope this helps.

She's not part Native American. Her family tree is posted at ancestry.com and her heritage is basically German (and American of course)

NAME: Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee. She was named Phoebe Ann by her mother, but called Annie by her sisters. Annie promoted the Mozee spelling of the family name. While it has been variously recorded as Mauzy and Moses, Mosey is the version most commonly found in family sources. She took the stage name Oakley, reportedly after Oakley, Ohio.
BIRTH DATE: Aug. 13, 1860.
BIRTHPLACE: Patterson Township, Darke County, Ohio.
EDUCATION: Annie did not attend school.
FAMILY BACKGROUND: Quaker parents Jacob and Susan were originally from Pennsylvania. After a tavern fire ended their livelihood as innkeepers, they moved to a rented farm in Ohio. Father, who had fought in the War of 1812, died in 1866 from pneumonia and overexposure in freezing weather. Annie was the fifth of seven children. Her mother remarried, had another child and was widowed a second time. During this time Annie was put in the care of the superintendent of the county poor farm, where she learned to embroider and sew. She spent some time in near servitude for a local family where she met with mental and physical abuse. When she reunited with her family, her mother had married a third time
Born in a log cabin on the Ohio frontier, Annie Oakley began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. She quickly proved to be a dead shot and word spread so much that at age sixteen, Annie went to Cincinnati to enter a shooting contest with Frank E. Butler (1850-1926), an accomplished marksman who performed in vaudeville. Annie won the match by one point and she won Frank Butler's heart as well. Some time later they were married and she became his assistant in his traveling shooting act. Frank recognized that Annie was far more talented and relinquished the limelight to her, becoming her assistant and personal manager. In 1885 they joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, run by the legendary frontiersman and showman Buffalo Bill Cody.

For seventeen years Annie Oakley was the Wild West Show's star attraction with her marvelous shooting feats. At 90 feet Annie could shoot a dime tossed in midair. In one day with a .22 rifle she shot 4,472 of 5,000 glass balls tossed in midair. With the thin edge of a playing card facing her at 90 feet, Annie could hit the card and puncture it with with five or six more shots as it settled to the ground. It was from this that free tickets with holes punched in them came to be called "Annie Oakleys." Shooting the ashes off a cigarette held in Frank's mouth was part of the Butler and Oakley act.
In a train wreck in 1901, Annie suffered a spinal injury that required five operations and even left her partially paralyzed for a while. In a shooting contest in Pinehurst, N.C. in 1922, sixty-two-year-old Annie hit 100 clay targets straight from the 16 yard mark. Annie Oakley died of pernicious anemia on Nov. 3, 1926, in Greenville, Ohio, at the age of sixty-six.

FAMILY TREE:
Jacob Moses (Annie's father)
Born: abt 1806 ,Pennsylvania
Died: 1866-02-11 ,Willowdell,Darke,Ohio
Married: 1848 in ,Blair,Pennsylvania,
Susan Wise
Birth: 1832-07-12 ,East Loop,Blair,Pennsylvania
Death: 1908-08-18 ,Willowdell,Darke,Ohio
Children:
Phoebe Ann Moses --F-- 1860 in Darke, OH (Annie)

Annie's grandparents (paternal):
John Moses
Birth: 1794 ,Landisburg,Perry,Pennsylvania,USA
Death: 1850-05-12 , Plain,Wayne,Ohio,USA
Married:
Mary Carl
Birth:no date given
Death: no date given

Maternal grandparents:
Jacob Wise
Birth: 1806-03-09 ,Blair,,Pennsylvania,USA
Death: 1836-03-19 ,Pennsylvania,USA
Married: about 1831in ,,Pennsylvania,USA
Emily Clapper
Birth: 1809 , Dutch Loop,,Pennsylvania,USA
Death: 1845

Annie's paternal great-grandparents:
Johann Peter Moses
Birth: 6 Jul 1745 in Ilbesheim, Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern , Germany
Christening: 11 Jul 1745 Evanelisch Church, Ilbesheim Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany
Death: 9 Feb 1829 in New Bloomfield, Perry, Pennsylvania
Burial: Old Church Cemetery, New Bloomfield, Perry, Pennsylvania
Married: 14 May 1769 in New Hanover, Montgomery, Pennsylvania to:
Elizabeth Andrae
Birth: 10 Apr 1748
Death: no date

Annie's 2nd great-grandparents (paternal)
Johann Heinrich Moses
Married: 12 Jan 1744 in Evanelisch Church, Ilbesheim Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany to:
Maria Philippina Fuht

Annie's maternal 2nd great-grandparents:
John Wise Jr
Birth: 13 AUG 1776
Death: 1843
Married:
Elizabeth Puterbaugh
Birth: 1776
Death: 1851

Annie's 3rd great-grandparents (maternal):
John Wise , Sr
Birth: 1754 in Pa
Death: 1821 in Huntingdon Co Pa
Married: 1775 in Pa to
Mary Cripe
Birth: 1758 in Bedford Co Pa
Death: 1786 in Huntingdon Co Pa

From what I could figure out, her ethnicity is German-American, and what is known as "Pennsylvania Dutch "(not as in Dutch from the Netherlands, but the English pronunciation of the word "Deutsch" for German) , the descendants of German immigrants who came to Pennsylvania prior to 1800. Historically, the dialect was spoken by most persons in Pennsylvania of south German origin, whether Lutheran, Reformed, Catholic, or belonging to any of a number of other Christian denominations. Today, the majority of speakers of "Pennsylvania German" are either Amish or Old Order Mennonite