At 03:03 PM 9/28/98 -0400, Sharon McAllister wrote: >Nalora wrote: > >> Add that to a perpetual curiosity about the past, a real LOVE for the >State >> I have lived in all my life, a lust for learning new things about >Oklahoma >> and a family that came here before 1850 and a stubborn >Scots/Irish/Indian >> background, and what do you have? > >A kindred spirit! > >Given that time frame and your earlier references to Pottawattomi Co., I'm >compelled to ask -- is it possible you have some Absentee Shawnee roots? > I have yet to identify the tribe. I KNOW she was an indian, I KNOW I am 1/8, but Family history says "Cherokee" and American History says either Sauk-Fox (where they met) or Potawatomie (land allotment) or Chickasaw (land allotment and marriages and babies born all over the Chickasaw Nation. The indian is ummistakeable in pictures of family members that were 1/2 and 1/4. Nalora (I do know where she is buried, too.)