Jes, I don't know where you got all this but I am a Cherokee and my people came over on the Trail of Tears. I was reared to know I was a Cherokee. You also need to read The Cherokees by Grace Woodward plus History of the Cherokees. You should also take what you read with a grain of salt. Too many idiots do not know a thing they are writing about. One good instance when an old boy in the East wrote this article about who Sequoyah married. Had this been true the gal was Sequoyah's sister. He is my cousin. People on the Internet list people stating they are kin and all this too if nonsense. You can contact the BIA plus you can order many documents but that will cost money. Those out there who think they are gonna dig up proof on Obadiah being in Rev. War are wasting their time. I've put my money where my mouth is and have had manya talk with Washingtonand have documented evidence, plus I think sometime I'm related to every Cherokee out there. Oleta E. Benge Kite On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:01:12 EDT HealTheCircle@aol.com writes: > What's rather interesting about the Cherokee, is that at one time, > they WERE > part of the Iroquois Confederacy (6 Eastern Tribes). I would > guess...this > was earlier than the 1770's. This was when the Chickamaugan > Cherokee withdrew > from the other Cherokee, because of their ceding of land to the > whites. > So...the ceding of land, and intermarriages had already begun by > that time. Fron > what I can tell, the early settlers, were folks who worked in fur > trade...which brought them in very close contact with the natives > in the area where the > Cherokee lived. The first settlers lived with the native people, > married > into the tribe, and were considered part of the tribe. > > I would also read James Mooney's book...about the Cherokee previous > to the > intermarrying with the white culture. I think the name of the book > is > "History, Myths, and Secret Formulas of the Cherokee." > > One other point I'd like to make...which I am willing to hear other > > perceptions on...is that in the 1830's when the removal began > (referred to as the > Trail of Tears)....some native families who were involved in that > (Cherokee, > Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek), instructed their children > to not admit > native blood, to escape the removal. There is talk of admitting > "black > dutch", "black irish", or sometimes "italian" or "greek" instead of > native. > This is understandable if you view the horror, loss of life, etc., > that this > removal perpetrated. There are museums at the Western and Eastern > Cherokee > Nations that depict this removal. > > Also, previous to this in about 1817, there was a "Massacre of 100 > Women and > Children", of the Chickamaugan Cherokee, not far from Ross's > Landing, in > what is now Chattanooga, TN. on their way to safety. The > instruction by their > Chief was to save the rest of the children, by sending them off with > others, > non native, to be raised as other than native (my history....on my > Mitchell > family). My family found them at a campground in what is now the > Chattanooga > area, and took them West with them to Henryville, TN....as their > children. > There they intermarried with other families who also had native in > their > background. From there they traveled to AR. > > So....it is possible that people, with native blood, could have > ended up, in > areas that were not designated, as the areas in which those tribes > lived (as > a tribe). > > These brief descriptions of history (of which I am a novice) only > were cited > to show that there events previous to the birth times of her people, > that > could have brought a person who was not a "fullblood" into an > area.....but the > native blood would still have been present, even if there was > intermarriage. > > jes > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > >