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