This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/1416 Message Board Post: At these websites it says -- http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/nations/catawba.htm At a later period [note:after 1841] some Catawba removed to the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and settled near Scullyville, but are said to be now extinct. http://www.dickshovel.com/Catawba.html The possibility of moving to the Choctaw section of Oklahoma was explored but ultimately rejected A second attempt to relocate the Catawba west to the Choctaw in Oklahoma also failed during 1853. http://sciway3.net/proctor/state/natam/catawba.html A few Catawba intermarried with the Cherokee in later times [note: this is talking about the North Carolina Cherokee], however, and still live there, and a few others went to the Choctaw Nation, in what is now Oklahoma, and settled near Scullyville. These also are reported to be extinct. Some families established themselves in other parts of Oklahoma, in Arkansas, and by the Sanford, Colo., where they have gradually been absorbed by the Indian and White population. ========================= I received the following email from someone who has researched the Catawba a lot. "A group of Catawba left the Nation ca. 1851 and moved to the Choctaw Nation. They received Choctaw citizenship ca. 1852 I think. I am going by memory. Ca. 1898 their descendants formed a Catawba Association out of Fort Smith, Arkansas . . . I have tried to make contact with them but to no avail." ============================== I am wondering how can I research any Catawba families that lived near Skullyville in Leflore County, based on what is written above. A great uncle wrote about my family in "Indian/Pioneer Papers" that when my family first moved to IT their lived in "either Le Flore or Sequoyah County" saying he didn't know which side of the Arkansas River they lived on. A great aunt wrote a letter to grandma that the family kept. In it she said her oldest sister died "in the Chocktow Nation" (she did spell very good) as an infant, so I think they were in Le Flore County. I took an autosomal DNA test and it came back tri-racial -- Caucasian, sub-Sahara African, and American Indian. More Caucasian than anything else, though. I am wondering if my family were some of these Catawba? Surnames of my direct family are Hawkins, Richey, Brown, Byrum, Wayland, Woods, Hamilton, Dickson, Allen, Gibson, Stuart, Guess, Black. Several of these surnames have multiple spellings. My great grandparents later moved to the Chickasaw Nation where we lived until statehood. I now live in SW Ok. Thanks, Vance Hawkins