Thank you Jeannie for sharing your story. This is an interesting theory on Indian Princesses. Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeannie Travis" <askgranny@juno.com> To: <BARKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:30 PM Subject: [BARKER] Indian Princesses ? > > My family has an Indian Princess in it , also...It seems that all the > brides were princesses...My Grandfather, way back , fell in love with his > Princess when the Trail of Tears journey was in progress ...He followed > her to Oklahoma and brought her back with him...They had to swim a big > river and he made bundle of his clothes and a certain number of gold > pieces, and they crossed the big river...That is the extent of our > knowledge on it, and none of us can remember who told it to us! I DO > remember Mama saying he was the first white man in Henry County , > TN....Didn't register his deed so lost the farm he had built up......His > last name was Bunton, and my Grandfather Robert Franklin Buntin married > Cora Berline Barker, daughter of " Babe " Barker, from Decatur > County...past that I don't know...There was a $20 gold piece in the > family when Mother was growing up, and I have wondered if this was the > last one left from those long ago days...It was given to my Aunt and she > sold it in Chicago.... > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:11:00 EDT DEANNAAZ@aol.com writes: > > Pam: I hate to burst your bubble, but there is no such thing as an > > "Indian > > Princess". She could have been the daughter of a Chief, but they > > were just > > that, not a Princess. > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > ==== BARKER Mailing List ==== > Visit GENEALOGY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET to find other surname lists > http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html > > >

Well I guess its time to post this message outright since I am of Cherokee descendancy. Don't say anything about an Indian Princess to any Full blood Cherokees or they will laugh at you and walk away. There is no Princess in the Cherokee Nation. Never was and never was in any other tribal affiliations Perhaps this was the intruder's sarcastic method of saying she was the daughter of a Chief which is also a misnomer since there really wasn't such a title before the intruders arrived. The Cherokee political system was purely matriarchal. There was a male governor of each township in the Cherokee Nation and several officials under him. But the women had the last say on everything. Men felt that the women had superiority because they gave birth to them. That system disappeared once the intruders took hold somewhere along in the late 1500's early 1600's. Saying that your ancestor was a Cherokee Princess is demeaning to most Cherokee. Just want you to be aware of this. Leslie Barker Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: pam prine To: BARKER-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 7:46 AM Subject: Re: [BARKER] Indian Princesses ? Thank you Jeannie for sharing your story. This is an interesting theory on Indian Princesses. Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeannie Travis" <askgranny@juno.com> To: <BARKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:30 PM Subject: [BARKER] Indian Princesses ? > > My family has an Indian Princess in it , also...It seems that all the > brides were princesses...My Grandfather, way back , fell in love with his > Princess when the Trail of Tears journey was in progress ...He followed > her to Oklahoma and brought her back with him...They had to swim a big > river and he made bundle of his clothes and a certain number of gold > pieces, and they crossed the big river...That is the extent of our > knowledge on it, and none of us can remember who told it to us! I DO > remember Mama saying he was the first white man in Henry County , > TN....Didn't register his deed so lost the farm he had built up......His > last name was Bunton, and my Grandfather Robert Franklin Buntin married > Cora Berline Barker, daughter of " Babe " Barker, from Decatur > County...past that I don't know...There was a $20 gold piece in the > family when Mother was growing up, and I have wondered if this was the > last one left from those long ago days...It was given to my Aunt and she > sold it in Chicago.... > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:11:00 EDT DEANNAAZ@aol.com writes: > > Pam: I hate to burst your bubble, but there is no such thing as an > > "Indian > > Princess". She could have been the daughter of a Chief, but they > > were just > > that, not a Princess. > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > ==== BARKER Mailing List ==== > Visit GENEALOGY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET to find other surname lists > http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html > > > ==== BARKER Mailing List ==== How long has it been since you posted your line or a query to the list? Surname Helper Search http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp/srchall.html