This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xV.2ADE/481.5.2.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Not necessarily. Many buried it completely. My family is a perfect example. We are just now finding out the possible connections in my father's family. We were always told that we were descended from Irish and French. When we asked further questions we were told that we didn't need to know and we didn't want to know. I am finding that this is a very prevelant answer in those whose indian ancestry was hidden. I am not saying that this makes our family story true, but Phil and I were both given the same story.--That Grandma Busby was Indian. I don't know if it is true or not, but I do know that early families in North Arkansas carefully hid this ancestry.