Richard, What is the time frame for the change? Also, the location of this family? George Ann >From: Richard Wilson <imafo2002@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] Hopiah >Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:23:50 -0700 (PDT) > > Halito All: > > Especially to John and George Ann, I have just >discovered that the name Hopiah definitely was used as >a surname for a while. I checked on some of the >applications of Charles Harper's descendants and they >indicated that he was also known as Charles Hopiah. >They stated that they started using Harper because it >sounded something like Hopiah. Of course they were >very close to and were probably related to the Harper >family in some way. > I really don't know where to go from here. It is >really quite puzzling. It's quite unfortunate that the >Euro-Americans were so intent on destroying the >culture and language. Then we wouldn't have such >difficulties. > Do you guys have any ideas? > > Imafo > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better >http://health.yahoo.com > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== >Try Markie and Fay's CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST pages at >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.html for CHOCTAW >Muster Rolls, Orphans lists, censuses, land records, etc. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com