Thanks Richard. Dot Hope Gainesville FL At 10:03 AM 6/21/2010 -0400, you wrote: >Estanko Brothers and Sisters . . . and Happy Poskita! > >My four month camping journey through the Southern Highlands is over. I >am now living near Blairsville, GA in a house! The focus of my research >was originally to once and for all, determine where Spanish explorers de >Soto and Pardo went in the 1500s. That was pretty much accomplished. > >However, when I discoved that the core members of the Snowbird Cherokee >Band looked just like the famous basalt heads and jade figurines created >by the Olmecs 3200 years ago, another intellectual journey began . >. what was the REAL history of the Cherokees? What I eventually >discovered was that both ethnically and historically, the Cherokees were >always intwined with the Creeks or the ancestors of the Creeks. In fact, >the first group that South Carolina settlers called Chorakees spoke a >dialect that mixed Muskogee, Hitchiti, Yuchi and Siouan - but would have >been understood by any Creek at that time. Most of the famous leaders of >the Cherokees in the early 1800s were of predominantly Muskogean and >Scottish ancestry, but considered themselves Cherokees. Only the Ross's >and the Vann's were of Scottish and Algonquian-Cherokee heritage. > >Here is the URL for the ten articles I wrote on the subject. Scroll down >to Part One to begin the saga. > >http://www.examiner.com/x-40598-Architecture--Design-Examiner > >Have a blessed day! > >Richard Thornton >Notes on the Creek Indians >http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm > >Early Creek History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ > >Migration Legend of the Creek Indians >http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message