This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GKX.2ACIB/6955.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The older folks wouldn't speak of being Native American because of fear of being forced to go to Ok. and enroll....loosing land they worked. You will find it to this day of these things happening...Most Fox's blended in in the area of Illinois, Ohio and Indian after being run off their lands in V. WV and Kentucky for their land...when the Treaty of Enchota was drawn up...they seen what was ahead and hid...changed names and dressed differently..Sad thing huh? The spead out...that way it would be harder to catch them. Lines got lost or forgotten...