And even though I am also new to this mailing list, Amen, to what Diane Singleton said in response to Jim's recent post that has brought on so many more. And I can prove that I am of Choctaw heritage by my great-grandmother's roll number and death certificate, although the difference in degree of blood on the two documents is "any body's guess" except that I tend to agree with everyone else in that most Indians were not very proud to be such during those early years (before OK became a state). And even though these two documents differ, and I can not put a finger to the degree of blood I may or may not be, I am also one who is researching and doing genealogy because I want to know about my ancestors and their history of those that came before myself and others. I love history as well. Off my soap box. Jacque Hopkins Wolski hopkinsj@ida.net Pushmataha County, OK Coordinator web site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpushma/index.html My personal family web site at: http://www.maxpages.com/mygenroots 'Last Will and Testament: Being of sound mind, I spent all my money.' (Just on research) ----- Original Message ----- From: Diane Singleton <tincie@usit.net> To: <Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:39 PM Subject: Re: Indian Roots > At 03:13 PM 6/7/99 EDT, you wrote: > >Jim, > > Your attitude matches that of the type of people that made my Grandparents > >ashamed to be "Breeds" > > If your so down on people who rejoice in our diversity why are you on this > >list? > >Gregg > > > >Jim, I am new to this list and am very surprised that there are people > like you still around in the 90's. What's your point? Are you Native > American and one of those people who resent "white wannabe's"? I ran upon > some of those people on another site not long ago. One of those sites who > ridiculed "twinkies" > (whites). And I, obviously, left the group in search of another site where > I could research and learn without having to deal with prejudice and > ignorance from either side. > I don't think I have a drop of NA blood in me and I don't have an opinion > about that one way or the other. I am just researching my (and my > husband's) heritage because I want to know who our ancestors were...where > they came from, etc because I love history mainly. Any kind of history. I > am curious about our ancestors, no matter who or what they were, because > that makes up our history. I have no control whatsoever over what my > ancestors did or who they were. Do you? Do you have any control over what > happened 200 years ago that caused you to be what you are today? It's > history. Plain and simple. > My ancestors were Irish, English, Dutch, German, French, and a bunch of > "anybody's guess" thrown in. > My husband's ancestors are not so easy to trace. The ONLY reason I look on > lists like Melungeon & Native American is because I haven't been able to > get anywhere on the other lists. What makes these lists any different than > the Irish, English, etc? Why do you pick this particular heritage to > question people concerning their interest? Sounds to me like you have some > serious issues that you are trying to transfer to the rest of the people on > this list. > I'm sorry that I felt I had to respond to your post, especially being new > here myself, but I was under the impression that these lists were open to > anyone who felt the need to research. I really hope the other lists I have > signed up for don't try to make me feel like I have to explain why I am > there. > Diane Yarbro Singleton >