Joyce: did you ever find any more information on this group? wanda --- On Thu, 8/30/12, Joyce Gaston Reece <[email protected]> wrote: From: Joyce Gaston Reece <[email protected]> Subject: [CherokeeGene] Cherokee Indian Citizenship Association To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 2:40 PM In the 1890’s when many of the mixed blood Cherokee and descendents were trying to regain citizenship in the tribe there was a man (or men) who formed “The Cherokee Indian Citizenship Association, Afton Indian Territory. This ‘association’ handed out official looking certificates which some people used to gain citizenship and apply for the Dawes/Miller payments. I’ve done an internet search on this and find next to nothing that tells me if this was a ligitimate organization/office or was it someone pulling a boondoggle? Joyce Gaston Reece =====*NOTICE THIS*===== this is a generic list; and not topic specific because certain chatting is required to do genealogy; and sort fact from fiction. Rude people will be moderated asap! List archive http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene Dual admin. Dan and Joyce ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Nope, sure didn't Wanda. I looked to see if it was legit or not....they lean toward being legit but I can't say for sure. Joyce Gaston Reece -----Original Message----- From: Wanda Pezzaglia Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 3:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] Cherokee Indian Citizenship Association Joyce: did you ever find any more information on this group? wanda --- On Thu, 8/30/12, Joyce Gaston Reece <[email protected]> wrote: From: Joyce Gaston Reece <[email protected]> Subject: [CherokeeGene] Cherokee Indian Citizenship Association To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 2:40 PM In the 1890’s when many of the mixed blood Cherokee and descendents were trying to regain citizenship in the tribe there was a man (or men) who formed “The Cherokee Indian Citizenship Association, Afton Indian Territory. This ‘association’ handed out official looking certificates which some people used to gain citizenship and apply for the Dawes/Miller payments. I’ve done an internet search on this and find next to nothing that tells me if this was a ligitimate organization/office or was it someone pulling a boondoggle? Joyce Gaston Reece =====*NOTICE THIS*===== this is a generic list; and not topic specific because certain chatting is required to do genealogy; and sort fact from fiction. Rude people will be moderated asap! List archive http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene Dual admin. Dan and Joyce ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message =====*NOTICE THIS*===== this is a generic list; and not topic specific because certain chatting is required to do genealogy; and sort fact from fiction. Rude people will be moderated asap! List archive http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene Dual admin. Dan and Joyce ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message