This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdQBAEB/288.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: HEY PAM, YOU ARE RIGHT THEY DID DENY THEIR INDIAN HERITAGE, BECAUSE THEY WERE LOOKED DOWN ON..MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME AT HER AGE 90 YEARS OLD..SHE BEGAN TO CRY A MORNFULL CRY AND SHE CRIED AND I ASK "WHAT IS WRONG, WHY ARE YOU CRYING?" SHE SAID "ALL MY LIFE WE WERE LOOKED DOWN ON AS I GREW UP, ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, LIKE UNDERLYNS, BECAUSE WE WERE HALF INDIAN." THE WORD UNDERLYNS MEANS==TO LOOK DOWN ON AS IF YOU ARE NO ONE.BUT TO SEE MY PRECIOUS SWEET GRANDMOTHER AT AGE 90 YEARS OLD CRYING LIKE THIS REALLY HURT ME..THEY REALLY DID GO THROUGH ALOT OF HURT...JUST FOR BEING AN INDIAN....TO ME THE INDIANS WAS THE MOST MISTREATED....THEY TOOK OVER THEIR WHOLE COUNTRY!!!!AND NEVER LET THEM HAVE ANY RIGHTS, NONE!!!GUESS WHO IS THE POOREST CULTURE???YOU GUESSED IT ""THE INDIANS""...HOW SO??THE GOVERMENT DID GIVE THEM SOME LAND..BUT NOT MUCH COMPARED TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY THE UNITED STATES WAS THEIRS!!!!!!!!!NOW LOOK...PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT HAVING MORE GIVEN TO THEM. ANYWAY, THIS! IS REALLY WRONG... MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE INDIANS...BECAUSE ALSO WE ARE INDIAN TOO..... IT REALLY HURT ME TO SEE MY GRANDMOTHER CRY ABOUT THIS!!!!!!! I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTON THE HURT... ****MY DREAM IS TO FIND OUT THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR HISTORYS AND TO MARRY A FULL-BLOODED INDIAN (CHEROKEE) TO CONTINUE THIS HERITAGE!!!**** PAM, I HAVE COME ACROSS THE SAME THING WITH THEM BEING LISTED AS WHITES TOO. WHAT HAPPEN IS WHAT YOU KNOW...THEY DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THE INDIAN NAMES...THEY WERE AFRAID.. WHERE DO YOU LIVE? IS IT IN GA. CLOSE TO THE ARCHIVES? WELL, ANYWAY I CAN HELP, I SURE WILL. YOUR FRIEND, CHRISTY