In a message dated 11/8/01 9:03:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << I don't know how anyone else feels about that, but I consider it to be a tragedy in and among and capping many other tragedies going back over a long-long period time, in the history of the Native Americans of the Southeast. >> Richard, I most certainly agree. It seems even today that Native Americans are still not compensated for the loss of their lands as much as the blacks of today have been and the NA's have been here thousands of years. I'm not trying to start anything, just making an observation abt todays politics. To cap it all, so much NA history has been lost, never to be known. So sad for us all. June.