Fay, So wisely said. I can still hear my Grandfather say to me, " Arla, you know what is right." Arla ----- Original Message ----- From: "faynshep" <faynshep@telapex.com> To: <CHAHTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] Re: THANKS TO OUR ANCESTORS > You know we were promised we would get weaker but wiser. I know I'm getting > weaker and the wiser part I'm not to sure of. Yes, we owe our ancestors a > debt that we will never repay. We all are trying to honor their memory by > searching out their records and bringing them out from obscurity and writing > their names down so that they might always be remembered. And no, I don't > think I would have had the metal that they had or the courage and strength > so to remember them, to speak of them, to honor them and put their records > down in a book for all generations to come, is a good thing for all of us to > do. I know in my heart that they know us, that they care about us, that > when we do good they are happy for us and when we do not, that they are sad, > so always try to give them the honor and respect they deserve and try to be > the best person you can be if for no other reason but to honor your > ancestors. > Fay > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Linda Branum <mamalin@1s.net> > To: <CHAHTA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:57 PM > Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] Re: THANKS TO OUR ANCESTORS > > > > I think thats awful but our ancestors sure went thru a lot for us. > Let's > > all praise them for their efforts. > > I'm not sure I could have made it but I would have given it all my might > > for my children and grands. > > Regards, Linda > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Amarya@aol.com> > > To: <CHAHTA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 5:40 PM > > Subject: [CHAHTA] Re: CHAHTA-D Digest V01 #197 > > > > > > > In a message dated 4/6/01 12:37:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > > > CHAHTA-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > > > > > > > > There are many Indian's who didn't enroll as NA so the goverment > > wouldn't > > > > get into their business. I am sure thats why lots of the ones who > can't > > find > > > > any documentation can't find that. I also heard that in some places > if > > you > > > > were NA and told you were 1/2 or more blood that the goverment said > that > > you > > > > had to have a white person take care of your business. Has anyone else > > heard > > > > this? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, that was true. My Choctaw grandmother had to get permission to > > handle > > > her own land!!! Mary > > > > > > > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: > > > Send msg. to CHAHTA-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "unsubscribe" without the quotes > > > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... > > > > > > > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > > To subscribe to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L Genealogy mail list: > > Send msg. to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L-request@rootsweb.com > > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "subscribe" without the quotes > > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... > > > > > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L genealogy mail list: > Send msg. to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L-request@rootsweb.com > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "subscribe" without the quotes > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... > >