Thank you so much Lathel Duffield. I would also like to know the answer to that question. If there are not entitlements involved..............? ----- Original Message ----- From: <HealTheCircle@aol.com> To: <indian-territory-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS] freedmen enrollment > Thanks Lathel....see I knew someone else would know the answer to that > question. So, explain to me why the government was so insistent on the > rolls of > the freedmen, if their was no entitltement involved? If you know > why....or > you have a supposition. Given that the whole idea of having a > roll.....was > government directed. > > So, this might very well lead into the other issues I mentioned, with > folks > today who carry the heritage (african american/native american) who are > unable > to document, or legitimize their heritage?? Reminds me a bit, of some of > the remarks made about the "melungeons", in some of the writings I ran > across > the other day. Apparently, in the need to "label" people this is > confusing....and also in a way it is de-valuing of that person's history. > > I wrote before about the supposition I had seen regarding the melungeon > heritage. In a way the division was not by ethnicity....but by economic > strata. > The indentured folks who came across (mostly caucasian), the african > american (freed if i understand correctly), and the native americans who > may have > been enslaved.....all three experiencing lesser rights in a society that > prizes > money and power (or access to it). > > If it's been hard for the fullbood native person to access their > background, > and therefore their rights....and then hard for the mixed blood to follow > back to the proper rolls......to gain knowledge and their rights....what > about > this ethnicity who(apparently)has no rights and no documents to even show > that they could have but don't?? > > Just philosophical statements. > > 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 > >