Marian: Some of your info. is a little confusing, not having the actual land patent in front of me to look at. Dancing Rabbit Creek is in Mississippi...it's possible that what you've got there is a land patient awarded to the ancestor by virtue of the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty of the 1830's. It should show exactly where the land in Okla. was located, and I'm presuming that it was in Ashley Co. As someone said in a previous post, your ancestor may have had two names, as so many of ours did - his Chatah name (Ona HA Tubbe) and an anglo one (Tucker) Tubbe was an honor name for war and meant "he killed" or "killer" Some lines of the Tubbe/Tubby family continued with the name and some abandoned its usage. There should be someone on the list who can translate it for you. dustyc@microgear.net -----Original Message----- From: james watson <j.watson2@worldnet.att.net> To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com <CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:55 PM Subject: [CHOCTAW] Choctaw Name >I have a land patent with a name of a ggggrandfather, Robert Tucker, Ona Ha >Tubbe, and it also gives the Choctaw, Dancing Rabbit Crk., Ashley Co., Ok. >Can I believe this was given in 1858 to Robert Tucker, Indian, member of >Choctaw? Do they have books with Choctaw names translated to English? How >can I prove this is my Tucker? We were always that our Tucker were Choctaw. >Marian in Texas > > >==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== >Looking for your Native American Ancestors in >Pushmataha County, Oklahoma? >Have a look -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpushma/ >