We are part Choctaw and African American- My Twin is called Da-Kota. African it means Graceful Child.

Sa-Kota, You have a really interesting heritage. I bet you and your twin have enjoyed your unusual name all of your life. Do you know who your Choctaw relatives were? Do you have any living Choctaw relatives? Just curious. I went to the http://www.choctaw.org/cover.html Choctaw Vision web site and reread the history of the Choctaw to refresh my memory of the Choctaws. My ancestors moved to Sumter County in 1837 from Virginia as a direct result of the Treaty of "Dancing Rabbit Creek". The Choctaws and the Chickasaws were close tribes, and part of the same linguistic group. My great-grandfather, James H. Malone wrote the book "History of the Chickasaw Nation" many years ago, which is still one the definitive history of that Chickasaw Nation. Thank you again for your efforts, Tom McKnight tom_mcknight@bigfoot.com At 11:14 AM 2/18/2002 -0500, you wrote: >We are part Choctaw and African American- My Twin is called Da-Kota. >African it means Graceful Child. > > >==== ALSUMTER Mailing List ==== >"We shall find no ancestor before his time." >"To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree >without a root." - Chinese Proverb >Sumter County, ALGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~alsumter >Listowner Kristy Williams Sumter@US-Gen.com