I know where he went in SE Alabama, Houston County when he went into Georgia. My Grandmother told me and showed me. Nancy Quoting talliyasoutheast@aol.com: > > > 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 >