Lou Ann, The Cherokee have a legend to explain the blonde hair and blue eyes of some Cherokees. It is their "Goldie Locks" story but in their version Goldie Locks is captured by the Cherokees as a small child and when she becomes an young adult her white family finds her but she refuses to go back home with them and instead marries a young Cherokee man and their descendents sometimes have blonde hair and/or blue eyes. I like the story. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: <Brondak@aol.com> To: <lovelace@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [LL] Cherokee Blood In a message dated 7/17/10 1:08:40 PM, ginnyo@knology.net writes: > And, Mary, I also agree with your input about what an Indian looks > like....I > have a neice by marriage (not Lovelace related) that is high enough > percentage Cherokee that she is on the records and she has sandy blonde > hair > and blue eyes. She has an Aunt living on the reservation in Cherokee, NC. > (I believe the Aunt in on her Mom's side of the family). > > When I took my mother (Loveless & Meltabarger, Indian from both) to GA a few years ago, we visited the Cherokee museum at New Echota. There are many pictures of Cherokees on the walls. As we left, my mother said very seriously "Did you notice that they have our nose?" I laughed and told her it would probably be more accurate to say that we have theirs. It's true that we do have an Indian look. My half sister, however, is Choctaw from her father and Cherokee from my mother and is truly more Indian than I am, but has red hair and blue eyes and not a smidgen of an Indian look. My grandchildren are also Cherokee (supposedly) from their mother's side as well as from mine and they are all blond and blue eyed (in various shades and degrees). We were visiting a Cherokee trading post once and talking to the clerk about the blonde and blue eyed babes. She said you would be amazed at how many blonde, blue eyed Cherokees there are. Lou Ann ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message