My original message somehow was sent to the list and should not have been, kids home and half the block spends their days at our home, so I hope you'll excuse me sending to the list rather than the individual I had intended to send it. I born and spent my childhood in Kentucky, but I left in 1965. I now reside in eastern Oklahoma which was called Indian Territory until 1907. Many eastern tribes, not all I am told, were sent to Oklahoma. The Cherokee Nation being one of the major eastern groups has its capital in Talahquah. Though we call them Cherokee that is a corruption of their name that they pronounced " jah-lah-GEE." Here in eastern Oklahoma "Cherokee" cemeteries dot the landscape. I live in what was once called Tulsa Town and is in the heart of what was the Creek Nation. It is fairly easy to tell a Cherokee cemetery because many of the names will be written in the Cherokee syllabify (SP?) which is not an alphabet but symbols for syllables in Cherokee where as an alphabet has sounds for each letter. The particular cemetery I mentioned was in Wager County, Oklahoma. Doyle Sanders, Indian Territory