Thanks very much, but I am looking for a Creek or Cherokee, Joseph or Wm. MILLER__ NOT Cherokee Hunt. She was only NAMED Cherokee because she was the granddaughter of the famous Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins! Felicia -----Original Message----- From: Gene and Anne Fetters <geanfet@mail.riverview.net> To: HUNT-L@rootsweb.com <HUNT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 12:55 PM Subject: Fw: [HUNT-L] Cherokee Hunt > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gene and Anne Fetters <geanfet@mail.riverview.net> >To: Jim T Musgrave <jimbo591@juno.com> >Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 9:05 AM >Subject: Re: [HUNT-L] Cherokee Hunt > > >>There are two other lists for Cherokee Hunts also that are available >>somewhere on the net. Don't have the URls for them but one is called the >>"Dawes Roll" the other the Guinne Miller Rolls, they are the lists of >>Cherokee that were rounded up for the forced march to the reservations. >>For anyone doing research on cherokee Hunt's though, do not get discouraged >>if your names are not on these rolls. There are several reasons why they >>might not be there. >>1. there was one branch of the Cherokee that never went to reservations, >>they escaped the round ups by running into the hills of Georgia, they are >>called the Snow Bird Cherokee and are the last surviving truly traditional >>Cherokee left. >>2.there were others who escaped along the trail and were never put on >>reservations. There was one large group who escaped in Pakuka Kentucky. >>3. If a white had married a Cherokee it was illegal in most states at that >>time, so often the wife would have been listed as a spanish lady or some >>such to avoid detection. >>4. Some white families were so horrified about the Native marriage that >they >>destroyed all documentation of the family. >>5.If they stayed with the wifes family, the Cherokee are a matriliaial >tribe >>and the husband might have taken the wifes family name causing more >>confusion. >>6.Up until 1978 it was common for Cherokee children to be taken from their >>families and put into white schools to live. They were forced to give up >>all use of language and history and given white names so that they would >>better assimulate into the white world. Some of these children were so >>young that they did not remember their family names when finally released >>from the schools at all. >>7.and since many were born at home there would have been no record of their >>birth to find. >>8.of the three to four thousand cherokee rounded up and forced on this >march >>in the middle of winter only sixteen hundred survived. Entire families >were >>wiped, and left on the side of the road, out leaving no record of their >>passing. >>I am a Hunt of Cherokee lineage and have had a lot of difficulty tracing my >>links and these are the problems that I have run into. >>The Cherokee do believe that ,"If you have one drop of cherokee Blood You >>are Cherokee." >>Good Hunting,there are books available to help you search out cherokee >>heritage, if you are interested please contact me and I will get the names >>of these for you. >> > > >==== HUNT Mailing List ==== >Help support the Rootsweb cooperative by becoming a member! ><http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> >