The reason I beleive my father was born on a reservation is that he indicated so. Now he also indicated he was Chickasaw, that we cannot verify, what I do beleive to be the final truth is that maybe his family was mixed, and from our own oral history they all lived togethger, always moving together...several families who remained close for at least 3 generations, then it all fell apart, now most of us do not know each other, but the wonderful thing about us is that for the most part those that have re united ,our blended Oklahoma families feel a closeness with each other that passed down from the ones who came before us. Nancy