I do not have any idea where the native american lore was started. Here is what I do know as fact. My father Billy Ed Crofut (d. 1998)married my mother Louina R Haynes who is a full blood Muscogee(Creek)indian. My sister Donna and I are 1/2 Creek indian. I heard from my grandmother Clara Golightly Crofut d. 2002 that on the Golightly side of the family (maternal)they had some Choctaw and Cherokee from her great grandmother. Sorry this doesn't help much, but it is the indian blood in this line of the Crofuts.