----- Original Message ----- From: <HealTheCircle@aol.com> To: <indian-territory-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS] Natural Archives closure > Dan....I am not one to argue....but rather I'd ask others of native blood to speak up to that statement and see what they have to say. > > jes ======<>!<>====== Not much to say - History goes back farther than DeSoto Native stories are very important that go back before the Euro. Euro was the main downfall we know because of the paper documents , clash between Euro beliefs and Native beliefs caused some discrepancies in stories because Euro could not personally interpret the Natives of any land not just this one. Since a lot of it was to conquer, they did not much care about the Natives as History says. But to go back - back before even Desoto who was first , his records show there were many varieties of races here as he saw it then, he recorded Black people and others. Since the beginning of people - no one really knows where all the races began or where they came from. DNA samples of lots of Native being tested are getting some results, but one has to understand once the continents and waters were different and people been going all over all the lands for how ever many years people been in existence . I listened to an elder once, we talked about a lot of things, she was born 1875, she told stories of her dads , her favorite one was as is many of others , when asked how long his people been on this land, he said ( we have been here forever) and Natives mainly Cherokee firmly believe it. No one is going to try to change the truth , but the truth is still under the microscope. some Native do not want to hear the story, they want the true facts, where are we really from!) and that is the main theme of these genealogy lists ( the truth) How ever the stories are our life, because they have special meanings, the true facts should not be covered up. Now mixed in Euro hate , we know what happened there, but what happened ( before) the involvements is where the stories should take us, maybe some day anold enough story might reveal another land where there are blood relations. There is never an argument in facts. Never give up on looking for the stories. Have you looked into the Lost Sea ? Dan M